Spinning ... Two Versions of "Waltz for Debby"
When I first got into Vinyl I found at a used record store an album by Bill Evans called Explorations - and the piano playing was terrific. I asked my (now) Father In-Law if he had ever heard of him - and was met with an incredulous stare - the kind of stare you give to someone who claims to have never ridden in a car, or never eaten a hamburger. After him shaking his head, undoubtedly in wonderment on how I could have lived 40+ years and not have known. I looked up a bio on Bill Evans as soon as I could afterwards. What an interesting guy. He was a jazz pianist that was part of the group that brought forth the album A Kind of Blue with Miles Davis, and had a strong career right up until his untimely death in 1980 amongst drug addiction and sickness. I started picking up a few more of his albums when I saw them in the store and online. But what an artist, what a pianist! In my current rotation is one of my favorite albums of his, recorded in 1961, Waltz...