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Bill Evans was and may still yet be the most revered post-modern jazz pianist of ourtime. Evans music is at best copied by most pianists and copied successfully by

even fewer. Introspective and evocative single note lines that are as organic as theyare cinematic in the full presentation of Evans work.

There will never be another Bill Evans so Pasqua decided to not reinvent but domore of a musical "what if ?" on this legend by recording selected Evans tunes and acouple that are closely associated with Evans as artistic interpretations of playing aduet with himself on one piano over two channels. While this is every record labelsdream in terms of saving money there are but a handful of modern contemporarypianists with the talents to pull off such an undertaking. Pasqua delivers the goods

and then some by examining the possibilities of how these tunes may have evolvedand developed later had Evans life not been tragically cut short.

An ironic musical sense of humor is displayed with Pasqua's take on "Take Me OutTo The Ballgame" a musical tip of the cap if you will to his own love for America'spast time. The Evans harmonic development of his tunes are carried off here with

great respect but on the tune "Gloria's Step" there is a far more sweeping take thanwhat Evans may have ever intended and Pasqua self penned composition "Grace" isa subtle tune embracing a melancholy that allows for a perfect fit in this most eclectic

of recordings.

Normally a recording of this nature would have the potential of sonic train wreckwritten all over it but not here. Pasqua's career has run the gamut of co-composing

the CBS Evening News theme to recording two albums with Bob Dylan.Currently chair of Jazz Studies, Associate Professor, at the University of SouthernCalifornia, Pasqua has the gift to take this musical exploratory of Bill Evans and

related work and transform the release into something truly special.

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TrackList: Very Early; Nardis; Time Remembered; Gloria’s Step; Turn Out TheStars; Funkallero; Take Me Out To The Ball Game; Interplay; Walkin’ Up; Vindarna

Sucka Uti Skogarna; Grace.

Personnel: Alan Pasqua: piano

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