Comments on: Can you dig Bill Evans?

By: dreamlover

dreamlover — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:20:20 +0000

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

By: Lars Hoel

Lars Hoel — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:29:28 +0000

@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.

By: Way Back Now! Lets Go...

Way Back Now! Lets Go... — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:13:10 +0000

I always thought Evans was over rated. My opinion.

I would buy it for its cover.

By: lpcoverlover

lpcoverlover — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:54:59 +0000

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.

By: Lars Hoel

Lars Hoel — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:38:29 +0000

I dunno … those original Riverside covers were works of art … this is kind like drawing a mustache on the Mona Lisa …