Bill Evans
Pianist Bill Evans’ musically fruitful 1969 appearances in the Netherlands produced a trove of masterfully played records, which finally will receive authorized release on Elemental Music’s Behind the Dikes: The 1969 Netherlands Recordings. The album title is borrowed from Dutch producer Michiel de Ruyter’s (an original co-producer on these March 26, 1969 recordings) LP series Jazz Behind The Dikes on Philips in the 1950s.
Drawn from two March 1969 sessions in Hilversum — one at KRO Studio 1and the other at the famed VARA Studio 8 with the Metropole Orkest — and a date at the RAI Congrescentrum in Amsterdam that November, the collection will be initially released on Record Store Day (June 12) as a three-LP set, mastered at 33 1/3 RPM by Bernie Grundman and pressed at Standard Vinyl in Toronto, Canada. It will subsequently be issued on June 18th as a two-CD package and as a digital download.
Produced in conjunction with the Bill Evans Estate and the Dutch producer and researcher Frank Jochemsen, the album is the first Evans project to be issued by Elemental Music, founded in 2013 by Spanish producer Jordi Soley and Resonance Records co-president Zev Feldman. Feldman, known as “the Jazz Detective” for his archival archaeological work, has made unearthing unheard and rare recordings by jazz giant Evans something of a personal specialty.
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Behind The Dykes
2021
Elemental Music
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