Thank you.Bless. 🙏🌻🕉

How ?

​@@kenmorley2339 Great question. Precise as well. Because I know somewhat my expectations of Bill Evans changes, and have heard other bassists respond with Evans, and because I hear Ray Brown responding in similar ways, I find Ray Brown playing with Evans what is understandable to me. Although I know Ray Brown is a recognizably great bassist, I have never really appreciated his sound. Never understood it. Hearing him with Evans informs me that a place to begin hearing him more intelligently exists for me. I can say something else about bassists that might sound equally stupid, or perhaps insightful, depending on one's perspective and relative sensibilities. That is, although I know Eddy Gomez to be a recognizably great bassist, I feel personally that Bill Evans let him get away with too much. It seems to me that Gomez took advantage of Evans' good nature and became a show-off and a hot dog. I find it distracting (although, go figure, I do not find Keith Jarrett's singing distracting.) I can't understand how Evans could have put up with Gomez. And there was a pre-hot dog Gomez that was hugely proper. I have heard it, although somewhere those recordings aren't available, the same as there are some Weather Report recordings that are not available, and it's as though some things were so good that they had to be hidden away somewhere, you got me. Back to Gomez as show-off, I suppose it is much the same as the way we put up what we perceive the tolerable and the irritating in one another in everyday life. We take the bad with the good. And to think for a moment, Why didn't Bill Evans fire Gomez, I'd have to wonder why Joseph Zawinul didn't fire Jaco Pastorius. I suppose in neither case would that have been wise. All I know really is what I like. What falls outside of that is what makes me a critic and lousy closet bassist, and really great person, some of the time.

That association seems to be 180 degrees from the beauty and calm upbeat warmth of this music. Simply delightful. The cover reminds ME of the haunting beauty of the sunset in an exotic remote location.

the image reminds me of the colours and river landscapes of Apocalypse Now in a sort of way. At the same time, it's hauntingly beautiful, as you say, and connects very well with the music.

Quando un uomo riesce a trasmettere la sua vita in musica come ha fatto Bill, non può desiderare niente di più

Really? Are we to suppose that Ray Brown and Philly Joe Jones needed to be taught a thing or two about rhythm?

Kenny Burrell:)

Kenny Burrell

Kenny Burrel