Montreux II explained

Montreux II
Type:live
Artist:Bill Evans
Cover:Montreux II.jpg
Released:1970
Recorded:June 19 & 20, 1970
Venue:Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreux, Switzerland
Genre:Jazz
Length:33:13
Label:CTI
Producer:Helen Keane
Chronology:Bill Evans
Prev Title:From Left to Right
Prev Year:1970
Next Title:The Bill Evans Album
Next Year:1971

Montreux II is a live album by jazz pianist Bill Evans with Eddie Gómez and Marty Morell, recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland in 1970 and released on the CTI label.[1] The album was the second of Evans' Montreux concert recordings to be released, following the Grammy Award-winning Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival (1968).

Reception

The Allmusic review by Ken Dryden awarded the album 3½ stars and stated, "While this is a terrific live performance, there are sound problems, including what sounds like bleeding of the stage monitors into the mix, and there are muddy spots in the recording as well".[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Bill Evans except as indicated

  1. Introduction - 1:11
  2. "Very Early" - 5:27
  3. "Alfie" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) - 5:30
  4. "34 Skidoo" - 6:37
  5. "How My Heart Sings" (Earl Zindars) - 4:16
  6. "Israel" (John Carisi) - 4:14
  7. "I Hear a Rhapsody" (Jack Baker, George Fragos, Dick Gasparre) - 5:54
  8. "Peri's Scope" - 6:00

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. http://www.jazzdisco.org/bill-evans/catalog/#cti-6004 Bill Evans discography
  2. Dryden, K. [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r164953|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic Review] accessed March 19, 2010