Bill Evans Trio: In Europe
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DVD Cover Information
Artist: Bill EvansDVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: DVD, Import, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 55 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-02-07
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Rhapsody Films
Movie Reviews of Bill Evans Trio: In Europe
Movie Review: Good video, not so good value.
Summary: 4 Stars
There's 50 minutes of video on the disk, and of that 50, only 35 are of the Evans trio in Europe. The rest consists of a later solo recording of Evans, Evans at Newport with Eddie Gomez, and Evans participating in a four-hands jam with John Lewis, Marian McPartland and Patrice Rushan.
So you don't get a lot of the early trio for your money, but then, there isn't all that much Bill Evans video out there. What you do get is a marvelous selection of the Eveans/Israels/Bunker trio that produced some of Evans' best recorded work in the 1960s after LaFaro's untimely death. The recordings all appear to be transfers from black and white European TV recordings, and the quality is about what you'd expect frmo the era, but the camera work is very good, and follows the soloists.
Still, it would have been nice if the producer of this DVD had given us a bit more Evans instead of splitting what little there is between three or four expensive disks.