Can you dig Bill Evans?
“Dig It!” Bill Evans Fontana Records (French) A compilation of tracks from the albums “Everybody Digs Bill Evans”, “New Jazz Conceptions” and “Portrait in Jazz”, each originally issued on Riverside in the late fifties. One of a series of Jazz reissues that each featured a different hip chick posing in front of a jazz legend. Search the site for Fontana and see others listed here. Tracks include: I Love You / Easy Living / Displacement / Waltz For Debby / Autumn Leaves / Someday My Prince Will Come / Tenderly / What Is There To Say? / Oleo
(41 votes, average: 3.41 out of 5)
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November 18th, 2008 at 10:38 am
I dunno … those original Riverside covers were works of art … this is kind like drawing a mustache on the Mona Lisa …
November 18th, 2008 at 10:54 am
Well, of course I agree, but this is interesting as an attempt to sell the music to a new generation. By this time, the great jazz of the fifties and early sixties was passe and the great art and style of those original lp covers must have seemed uncool to young record buyers.
November 18th, 2008 at 11:13 am
I always thought Evans was over rated. My opinion.
I would buy it for its cover. 😉
November 18th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
@lpcoverlover: Well, that’s the great thing about this site. What’s cool, what’s kitsch, what’s stood the test of time … they’re all here side-by-side. Why I keep coming back.
November 25th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
You’re right lpcoverlover: it’s really a beautiful piece. Very interesting stuff of pop art and popular art as well. But Lars is right too: it’s exactly what they intended to do: draw a moustache on mona lisa.
Well , i’m working on these series (plaisir du jazz in france, jazz club series in italy, netherlans, belgium, jazz popular series in england and may be others ) tring to know who exactly was directing the operation (DA), how many different covers were printed and what was inside (john lee hooker has the same cover but 2 completly different tracklistings) and so on.
I live in paris but there’s nothing left (the studio 8×10 has vanished, printers are closed, nothing was registered in the national library..
Let me know if you know ou have something about it!
Thank you and congratulation for your website