Bill Evans At Town Hall Vol 1 - The Verve Acoustic Sounds Series AAA cut by Ryan K Smith
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It's always a special occasion to get a new release in the Acoustic Sounds Series, and this one is truly a worthy title to get the AAA audiophile treatment. Recorded by Verve live at Town Hall in 1966, Ryan K Smith has done his usual magic bringing out the best of the tapes. Great performance, great sound, silent vinyl from QRP and a gorgeous Stoughton gatefold. Whats not to like? Everybody digs Bill Evans!
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Bill Evans: At Town Hall Vol 1 (Acoustic Sounds Series LP) amzn.to/3HtQXno
Bill Evans: Trio '64 (Acoustic Sounds Series LP) amzn.to/3YhroM8
Bill Evans: Trio '65 (Acoustic Sounds Series LP) amzn.to/3uIPnGw
Other noteworthy Acoustic Sounds Series LPs still in stock or for preorder!
Oscar Peterson Trio: Night Train (Acoustic Sounds Series LP) amzn.to/3uI7dcS
Pharoah Sanders: Karma (Acoustic Sounds Series LP) amzn.to/3PjN6uT
Oliver Nelson: Blues and The Abstract Truth (Acoustic Sounds LP) amzn.to/3FHN1hn
Stan Getz: Getz Gilberto (Acoustic Sounds Series LP) amzn.to/3VPL3kG
Duke Ellington: Meets Coleman Hawkins (Acoustic Sounds Series LP) amzn.to/3iYssUY
Ella and Louis Again (Acoustic Sounds Series LP) amzn.to/3FjElg2
Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson (Acoustic Sounds Series LP) amzn.to/3VP5gau
Charles Mingus: Black Saint And The Sinner Lady (Acoustic Sounds LP) amzn.to/3uJvZtg
John Coltrane: Crescent (Acoustic Sounds Series LP) amzn.to/3Wd13xf
Ray Charles: Genius + Jazz = Soul (Acoustic Sounds Series LP) amzn.to/3PiqlHS
John Coltrane Live at The Village Vanguard (Acoustic Sounds LP) amzn.to/3uEgpz1
George Russell: New York, NY (Acoustic Sounds Series LP) amzn.to/3HqvFqI
Nina Simone: Patel Blues (Acoustic Sounds Series LP) amzn.to/3FSv8wN
John Coltrane: Ballads (Acoustic Sounds Series LP) amzn.to/3uD7yxz
Benny Carter: Jazz Giant (Acoustic Sounds Series LP) amzn.to/3VPLnzU
Barney Kessell: The Poll Winners (Acoustic Sounds Series LP) amzn.to/3uNdLGZ
Barney Kessell: Four! (Acoustic Sounds Series LP) amzn.to/3VNTdKz
Art Pepper Meets The Rhythm Section (Acoustic Sounds Series LP) amzn.to/3WqzaSv
Shelly Manne and Friends: My Fair Lady (Acoustic Sounds Series LP) amzn.to/3hoCLkO
Art Pepper: +11 (Acoustic Sounds Series LP) amzn.to/3YbYblP
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Bill Evans is a gift. Steven over at Inthebassclef championed his albums for me. I have a number of grey market recordings of his in my own collection. Good to hear this reissue has not disappointed. 😎
Thanks for your comment Rachel! I have been delighted with each Bill Evans album I've heard so far. Great artist.
When I see something priced at $900, I think, how can I save about $800? For those who can afford it, it might be really beautiful music, beautifully recorded. I think Bill Evans plays beautifully. But is there ever any humor in his music? Like Chick Corea. Or is his music all contemplative; with one emotion? No thanks for $900. But I envy those where $900 is chump change. I'm sure it's a well recorded set. I am so glad that I have a great cd player in a situation like this.
Hi Scott, hope all is good.
Great video. I was on the fence about this album. But now I must get it.
I love all the information you give. Awesome job!
Thank you so much!
Bravo Bravo Bravo
Hope all is good. Thank you
Hi Joey,
I do think it's a beauty, and with this series, represses don't come too often. If you've streamed it, and like that, you'll love this edition on vinyl. Jacket looks great too!
@@ThePressingMatters Just order it. Coming Tuesday.
Thank you for all of your hard work and awesome videos!
Love it
Have you heard the record yet!?
@@ThePressingMatters Hi Scott, how did you know it came in the mail today. Ha Ha .. You are good. I won't be able to listen to the album until next week. I have a few gigs I have to get ready for. I want a day were I can just relax and put the record on and enjoy it. Thank you so much for checking on me. I will let you know. Hope all is good. You are the best!!!
I took the same approach as you Scott and have completed a Frankensteined Bill Evans boxsets with OJCs, Acoustech and Japanese versions. The Cannonball Adderly was the toughest to find clean. I am really pleased with the japanese versions because they are NM and as quiet as can be. Perfect combination for Bill Evans records ;-)
I'm really loving getting these beautifully done releases. I'll probably wait for new reissues for what I'm missing. I'm very leery of used vinyl these days.
I recommend looking at Japanese pressings of Bill Evans records as it is easy to find NM/NM- copies and the vinyl is just simply so quiet which really lends to a Bill Evans performance
@illumon8 Absolutely, good tip. I'm not as leery of Japanese pressings as they are quiet to begin with and generally well taken care of.
I just started my Bill Evan's journey with Portrait in Jazz on vinyl... It's very good....
Hi Chris! Thanks for your comment. I had forgotten that was my first one too! Long ago i did have the OJC of Portrait in Jazz. I wish I still had it, but now have the One Step. Never got to compare them. Thanks so much for watching and commenting.
@@ThePressingMatters Amazon has Portrait in Jazz for $20.00.... 180 g
Bill Evans… Ahhh such great music. For those who are getting into jazz, Bill Evans and his trio’s is a good place to start. Complex at times but beautiful. You get drawn into the music because of his piano playing. I glad AP has reissued some of his catalogue. That boxset would be a hard pill to swallow given its cost for now. Who knows, I might get the urge. Great look into this release.
Thank you Brian. I agree, a great artist to start a jazz journey as his albums are very accessible and often quite beautiful. I'm glad I started with Bill.
Your right on the boxset being too expensive! I bought it and decided to send it back because after thinking about it the price felt obscene to me. I’m not that crazy about bill…..I like him but not enough for the box. I got into the feeding frenzy when it was announced……I haven’t thought about it once since I sent it back.
Hi Mark, I'm glad to hear about your experience with it. I'd feel pretty bad spending that much on any box set. I do like Bill Evans too but I wouldn't listen to it enough to warrant it. I'd be terrified of damaging a disc and never play it. I see that behavior with some of my expensive one steps and UHQRs.
I love Bill Evans. My favourites are Undercurrent and you must believe in spring. I'd love a great pressing of those records. I'm not familiar with this record.
You should check out the Craft Records release of You Must Believe In Spring. Beautifully done 45 set at a reasonable price, I think $39.00.
Two AWESOME jazz reissues! FREDDIE HUBBARD Breaking Point / BILL EVANS You Must Believe in Spring
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I’m STILL wrestling with whether or not to buck up on that $900 box set. It didn’t sell out as fast as Mr Kassem suggested it might…but tempting nonetheless.
I can't, I just can't! I want to work on the system for a while. That way enjoyment will be across the board . With the amount of music I have to delve into, those albums will just get a few plays a year. It's also $80 per album!
Hi Scott I bought the riverside box from AP and it sounds unbelievable….. 22 discs for 40 bucks each. I tell you buy now or cry later.
Good to know! I'd love it but I'm paying off my new phono pre! I'll be crying later
@@ThePressingMatters A good alternative are japanese 70's pressing; will cost you in aggregate about the same as box set but you can at least buy them in individual copies. The OJC are of course much cheaper and pretty damn good. I actually regret selling my OJC copies after I bought the box set because I'm not always in the mood to flip record every 1 or 2 songs.
Nice one, Scott. Is AP confirmed to release the box set as individual releases?
Thank you Micheal. No, I didn't mean to infer that, I guess it is just wishful thinking!
Hi, I also got this release a couple of days ago :) Allow me a minor correction: the more recent Acoustic Sound Series' releases have their jacket manufactured by someone else that Stoughton Printing Company. I would have never noticed it by myself, I've read it on a forum. The series started with Stoughton, but then there was a change. Check the hype stickers, you will see Stoughton mentioned on the earlier LP's of the Series. On the more recent ones, the hype sticker was re-phrased, no more Stoughton, just "Tip-On gatefold sleeves printed on high-grade board". I've read somewhere Stoughton was overbooked. Maybe he became too expensive, I don't know. No complain. For me, the jacket of this Bill Evans LP feels and looks excellent as well.
Hi, thank you for your comment! I was aware there had been a change in an earlier release, maybe Evans 65 or We Get Requests? I guess it's continuing and I'll have to change my wording to Stoughton style gatefold! At any rate they are just as nice, perhaps a tiny bit narrower, which is actually a good thing.
Tell me how did you like the record. Did you hear any issues?
@@ThePressingMatters Yes, Stoughton is such an icon (in the US) it's hard not to call by this name anything similar :) I have just opened it for checking any visual default (there was none) but not listened yet. Thanks for drawing our attention to this possible wow/flutter issue, I will have a serious listening in a couple of days and will report back to you, here.
@@Domonkos.Siegfried perfect, thank you!
@@ThePressingMatters Hi, I can report that indeed, I could hear the tape wow/flutter on this album, on spot occasions throughout the album and notably during the 2nd track of Side B (Solo). My copy is flat and well centered, my rig is decent (SME Model 15 TT, with Series V arm) but even a budget TT would hardly have a speed error high enough to cause this level of flutter. I’m almost sure the issue comes from the 55-year-old tape. I also suspect tape degradation, as the upper-end (but audible) frequencies are weak. Maybe the tape was not the best, maybe the remote recording gear (at Town Hall) was faulty? I believe it is impossible to correct this type of speed variation error in the analogue domain (you would first need to convert to digital for that).
Having that said, this is not very disturbing, the listening pleasure was good and I prefer to buy maybe weaker AAA’s than pitch corrected/enhanced ADA’s, I’m glad to own this piece of Bill Evans’s discography. Although my personal taste would go towards less “accessible” jazz recordings, I’m building my own record collection and I felt some Bill Evans’ should be included too. The hype, Chad’s approval, the relatively affordable price and the easy availability (in Hungary) of the Acoustic Sounds Series from UMe makes those releases a good choice for the audiophile collectors like me :)
@@Domonkos.Siegfried Thank you for your informative comments! It's something I'll have to listen for again, on that track, which I've only heard twice. Something for everyone to keep in mind for sure. Sometimes we have to choose between AAA with some issues or a digitally corrected version. I also didn't find anything objectionable or unpleasant, but perhaps I am more tolerant when choosing an AAA cut from a neatly 60 year old tape. Thank you so much for watching!
Thanks I’m so torn on this one, it’s very good but we can only spend so much money on these and I’m super pumped on that Night Train Oscar Peterson and the AP billy Holliday
Which AP Billie Holiday? Lady In Satin? All the Billie 45s are some of the best sounding records I own. This one I have in the Classic 33 and 45. I want the new one too! The gatefold will be nice. My advice is to prioritize the Billie Holiday. It's breathtaking. Pick Bill up later when you have the chance.
@@ThePressingMatters yea I only had a wax time of it, which I got rid of, I’ll be getting that new one for sure
@@rufus_the_cat Definitely put the AP Body and Soul on your shortlist. It's spectacular. I reviewed both it and All Or Nothing At All. Those two were cut by George Marino. Unreal in the room presence.I can overlook the single sleeve when the sound this good.
Hi Scott as far as i know,there is no volume 2 ……volume one is an ovni
Oh I didn't check that fact :-) I just assumed another volume exists. I guess it was planned but never released?