David Schollmeyer - Bill Evans on the Organ (2020)
BAND/ARTIST: David Schollmeyer
- Title: Bill Evans on the Organ
- Year Of Release: 2020
- Label: Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm (MDG)
- Genre: Classical Organ, Jazz
- Quality: flac lossless (tracks)
- Total Time: 01:06:52
- Total Size: 274 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. My Bells for Organ
02. Very Early for Organ
03. Green Dolphin Street for Organ
04. Emily for Organ
05. Quiet Now for Organ
06. My Romance for Organ
07. Unless It's You for Organ
08. Peace Piece for Organ
09. Only Child for Organ
10. B Minor Waltz for Organ
11. You Must Believe in Spring for Organ
12. The Two Lonely People for Organ
13. My Foolish Heart for Organ
14. Waltz for Debby for Organ
15. Epilog for Organ
Jazz on the organ? And on the basis of the originals? This comes over marvelously well with the music of the legendary Bill Evans - as this new recording by David Schollmeyer impressively demonstrates. Schollmeyer has selected pieces from all the creative periods of this unique jazz pianist. Along with an illuminating overview of Evan's oeuvre, the result is an engaging organ portrait on Schollmeyer's "home organ" in Bremerhaven. Evans's outstanding skills as a pianist often inspired admiration; they were expressed not so much in artistic virtuosity as in his extremely fine sense of sound. His magnificent solos were mostly limited to one part, and here the saxophonist Lee Konitz was his great model. The organ restores the wind character to these improvisations - for many a jazz fan, with pleasant listening surprises in store! Evans was a great fan of the jazz waltz, and Schollmeyer's collection includes five such gems. Already in the original version the incomparable "Peace Piece," a free improvisation on a single ostinato measure, evokes the organ. Like a concentrated passacaglia or an English ground, this famous piece develops an uncommonly suggestive effect on the organ. The bass foundation is mostly formed by the extremely precise speaking of the Prinzipal stop on the Beckerath organ in the Große Kirche in Bremerhaven. The electric couplers also guarantee absolute rhythmic cogency even in a full registration - an essential prerequisite for the groove that Schollmeyer so marvelously maintains.
01. My Bells for Organ
02. Very Early for Organ
03. Green Dolphin Street for Organ
04. Emily for Organ
05. Quiet Now for Organ
06. My Romance for Organ
07. Unless It's You for Organ
08. Peace Piece for Organ
09. Only Child for Organ
10. B Minor Waltz for Organ
11. You Must Believe in Spring for Organ
12. The Two Lonely People for Organ
13. My Foolish Heart for Organ
14. Waltz for Debby for Organ
15. Epilog for Organ
Jazz on the organ? And on the basis of the originals? This comes over marvelously well with the music of the legendary Bill Evans - as this new recording by David Schollmeyer impressively demonstrates. Schollmeyer has selected pieces from all the creative periods of this unique jazz pianist. Along with an illuminating overview of Evan's oeuvre, the result is an engaging organ portrait on Schollmeyer's "home organ" in Bremerhaven. Evans's outstanding skills as a pianist often inspired admiration; they were expressed not so much in artistic virtuosity as in his extremely fine sense of sound. His magnificent solos were mostly limited to one part, and here the saxophonist Lee Konitz was his great model. The organ restores the wind character to these improvisations - for many a jazz fan, with pleasant listening surprises in store! Evans was a great fan of the jazz waltz, and Schollmeyer's collection includes five such gems. Already in the original version the incomparable "Peace Piece," a free improvisation on a single ostinato measure, evokes the organ. Like a concentrated passacaglia or an English ground, this famous piece develops an uncommonly suggestive effect on the organ. The bass foundation is mostly formed by the extremely precise speaking of the Prinzipal stop on the Beckerath organ in the Große Kirche in Bremerhaven. The electric couplers also guarantee absolute rhythmic cogency even in a full registration - an essential prerequisite for the groove that Schollmeyer so marvelously maintains.
Year 2020 | Classical | FLAC / APE
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