I used to hire Eddie to play for me and my buddies at the Down Under restaurant in Ft. Lauderdale. He was great and the nicest guy ever.

This is absolutely gorgeous. Very fun to listen to!

Sometimes the UKposts algorythm knows your deepest desires long before you realize them

About one year ago, this trio popped up on my phone and I clicked on this link. Imagine my surprise to discover this wonderful artist/trio. I have several friends really knowledgeable about Jazz who were also surprised and pleased to find out about Higgins. Came to find out Higgins was quite prolific and well known outside my circle. What a great find.

This is one of my favourite cds back in the 2000s. Still have it. Play it all the time. Love the Eddie Higgins Trio.

I admit I clicked on this because of the picture. What a sensual and romantic photo

From Wikipedia: (February 21, 1932 - August 31, 2009) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and orchestrator. Born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, Higgins initially studied privately with his mother. He started his professional career in Chicago, Illinois, while studying at the Northwestern University School of Music. An elegant and sophisticated pianist, his encyclopedic harmonic approach and wide range of his repertory made him one of the most distinctive jazz pianists to come out of Chicago, gaining the respect of local and visiting musicians for his notable mastery of the instrument. Higgins also had the unusual ability to sound equally persuasive in a broad span of music, whether he was playing traditional swing, exciting bebop or reflective ballads, providing the tone and stylistic flavor of each style, both as soloist and accompanist. For more than two decades Higgins worked at some of Chicago's most prestigious jazz clubs, including the Brass Rail, Preview Lounge, Blue Note, Cloister Inn and Jazz, Ltd. His longest and most memorable tenure was at the long-gone London House, where he led his jazz trio from the late 1950s to the late 1960s, playing opposite jazz stars of this period, including Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans, Erroll Garner, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Wes Montgomery, Oscar Peterson and George Shearing, among others. Later, Higgins said the opportunities to play jazz music with Coleman Hawkins and Oscar Peterson were unforgettable moments. Higgins spent his time at the London House Restaurant with bassist Richard Evans and drummer Marshall Thompson. Higgins also worked for Chess Records as a producer. During his stay in Chicago, Higgins also recorded a significant number of albums under his auspices and many more as a sideman with a wide variety of musicians, ranging in style from tenor saxophonists Hawkins to Sonny Stitt to Wayne Shorter; trumpeters Bobby Lewis to Harry Edison to Lee Morgan and Freddie Hubbard; and trombonists Jack Teagarden to Al Grey. His versatility was captured on stage and records, backing up singers and leading his own projects as both pianist and orchestrator, working in every jazz circle from dixieland to modal styles. Although he opted to decline the offer, Higgins was asked at one point by Art Blakey to join the seminal hard bop quintet, The Jazz Messengers. In 1970, Higgins moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida and began spending winters in Florida and summers on Cape Cod, where he played in local clubs. Since the early 1980s, he traveled widely on the jazz festival circuit and performed frequently in Europe and Japan. His releases on the Japanese Venus label earned him number one in jazz sales on more than one album. After that, Higgins played his music mainly in East Asia including Japan and South Korea. During his career in East Asia, Higgins formed a successful trio with Joe Ascione (drums), and Jay Leonhart (bass). In 1988, Higgins and jazz singer and pianist Meredith d'Ambrosio were married and became a popular team at clubs and festivals, as well as recording for Sunnyside Records. In 2009, dates in Japan and Korea were on his calendar of upcoming concerts, but were suspended due to a long illness. Higgins died of lung and lymphatic cancer in Fort Lauderdale at the age of 77.

I can't stop listening to this album almost daily, anywhere, office or home. I already recorded it in my iTunes, and I play it in my car. -- Superb arrangements !!!

Eddie Higgins is such a gem. Always in the groove, I have been a fan for years

Già dalla copertina si evince la bellezza e la sensualità avvolgente della musica

I purchased the album 20 years ago when physical CD store still exists....love it and listened to it until now...day after day..

Nice and relaxed atmosphere. Easy to listen to yet beautiful and sophisticated at the same time 🤍💜

Found it - Bass - Jay Leonhart Drums - Joe Ascione Engineer - Katherine Miller Recorded at "The Studio" in New York on January 30 and 31, 2001

Je ne peux pas m'empêcher d'écouter cet album presque quotidiennement, n'importe où, au bureau ou à la maison. Je l'ai déjà enregistré sur mon itunes et je l'ai joué dans ma voiture. Superbes agencements !

Wow! This album just popped up. Had me hooked right off the bat.

Eddie was so talented. That also speaks for his side men. Unfortunately for us all good talent die but leave us with their wonderful work.

So nice..thank you, Eddie

PRECIOSA MÚSICA...! SOY ROMÁNTICO, NO REUMÁTICO, A MIS 76 YEARS OLD... GRACIAS A TODOS...

Love ya Eddie Higgins- I love your style .... and I cannot have enough of your wonderful jazzy music!- you make my day!!! I start my day and get a dosage of your wonderful music!

I have listened to this almost every day since I found it. hundreds of times. a perfect record. cheers to Eddie Higgins Trio!

The version of Michel Legrand's "You Must Believe In Spring" is simply superb !!!! :)

Excellent selection. Congratulations to the Eddie Higgins trio. Comfort to my soul...

WISH I HAD DISCOVERED EDDIE HIGGINS YEARS HE IS GREAT , IAM A JAZZ LOVER BUT IAM ENJOYING IT NOW.

🎼💜🌺🙋‍🎼🎹🎹🎸 Again and again you touch my soul and it's not easy to do beleive me in Music and more ! Bravissimo to the Eddie Higgins Trio 🎼💜🌺🙋‍🎼🎹🎹🎸

What an absolute beast this guy was. This album is so f'ing good.

Oh my, this mellow music has me put me in the mood for an equally smooth Manhattan!🥃😋

This album was released in 2001. He was 69 years old.

Sending you lots of love and positive energy for a great day.

エディの曲は最高にいいね🙏最近家ではエディのアルバムばかり聴いてます。しかし最近のyoutubeは音がいいな❗

Classic!

This is so outstanding, certainly in the performance, and also in the sound recording. Very satisfying balance between the keyboard and bass.

Beautiful! Thanks from Italy.

GREAT DISCOVERY FOR ME ! Big big fan of them !

Bravo

Discovered my love of jazz in 2016 so I still have a lot of catching up to do. About the search for Eddie Higgins Trio vinyl albums!

I unconsciously clicked by its cover, and got massive satisfaction as soon as it got started.

정말 유투브알고리즘 놀랍네요 재즈 한참 즐겨들었는데 .. 오늘 또 불탑니다

Excellent tracks. Thank YOU.

Lovely album

Muchas gracias .Maravillosa

Great Sound..Fabulous Photo..

Excelente álbum!! gracias

His whole series on the Venus label is beautiful. I have most of them.❤

Absolutely beautiful

Lovely song. My eyebrows keeps going with the high and lows.

I feel like I'm at Keystone Corner or Yoshi. Conac with a water back. Love that I grew up in the Bay Area and had access to GREAT LIVE music. Oh and can't forget The Brit in Oregon. Live music under the stars. Life has been good to me. Not easy but live music always transported me into a river of love. Support your local musicians. ☮️🎙️

fantastic, seems like it should be from the late 50's, Paris scene. But actual release date is 2001, on Venus, a Japanese label.

Delicioso, aún en este momento de rehabilitación post-operatoria. Muy disfrutable. Gracias.

😎 Una Delicia...!!! Saludos desde Chile🇨🇱 gracias por compartir.👍

I'm trying to learn slow jazz & blues piano and this is superb listening. Hooked from the first tune.

A great pianist who's reputation flew below some of the jazz cognoscenti's radar (so as not to offend, perhaps I am the yokel who missed this marvelous musician).

just saw this, just started listening, just read some reviews and just love it already.

Thank you for such an ethereal upload. I simply love jamming my strings to this.

the WIKI for francophone ears : Edward Haydn Higgins (21 février 1932 - 31 août 2009) Né et élevé à Cambridge, Massachusetts, Higgins étudie d'abord en privé avec sa mère. Il commence sa carrière professionnelle à Chicago, Illinois, tout en étudiant à la Northwestern University School of Music. Pianiste élégant et sophistiqué, son approche harmonique encyclopédique et la vaste étendue de son répertoire font de lui l'un des pianistes de jazz les plus distinctifs venus de Chicago, gagnant le respect des musiciens locaux et de passage pour sa maîtrise reconnue de l'instrument. Higgins a également la capacité inhabituelle d'avoir un son très convaincant dans de nombreux genres musicaux, qu'il joue du swing traditionnel, un bebop enlevé ou des ballades méditatives, rendant le ton et la saveur stylistique de chaque style, aussi bien en tant que soliste qu'en tant que sideman. Pendant plus de deux décennies Higgins travaille dans quelques-uns des clubs de jazz les plus prestigieux de Chicago, incluant le Brass Rail, le Preview Lounge, le Blue Note, le Cloister Inn and Jazz Ltd. Son mandat le plus long et le plus mémorable fut à la London House, depuis longtemps disparue, où il mena son trio de jazz de la fin des années 1950 à la fin des années 1960, jouant en face des plus grandes stars du jazz de cette période, incluant Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans, Errol Garner, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson et George Shearing, entre autres. Le temps que passa Eddie au London House Restaurant fut avec deux des meilleurs sidemen que Chicago ait produit, le bassiste Richard Evans et le batteur Marshall Thompson. Thompson était un batteur à l'articulation très prononcée et un enseignant aussi bien que l'auteur d'enregistrements. Un évènement particulièrement notable qui se déroula à la London House fut Richard Evans présentant le batteur Maurice White au pianiste de jazz Ramsey Lewis. Après ce passage avec Ramsey, Maurice partit former le célèbre groupe Earth, Wind & Fire. À l'époque de cette présentation, Maurice était un batteur de studio pour Chess Records. Eddie travailla aussi pour Chess record comme producteur. Pendant son séjour à Chicago, Higgins enregistre également un grand nombre d'albums sous son nom et beaucoup d'autres comme sideman avec une grande variété de musiciens de tous styles, des saxophonistes tenor Coleman Hawkins à Wayne Shorter; des trompettistes Bobby Lewis à Freddie Hubbard, et des trombonistes Jack Teagarden à Al Grey. Sa polyvalence fut enregistrée sur scène et sur disques, accompagnant des chanteurs et menant ses propres projets comme pianiste et comme orchestrateur, travaillant dans tous les styles de jazz du dixieland au jazz modal. En 1970, Higgins part pour Fort Lauderdale en Floride, commençant à y passer ses hivers et partant les étés pour Cape Cod, où il joue dans les clubs locaux. À partir du début des années 1980, il voyage beaucoup suivant le circuit des festivals de jazz, se produisant régulièrement en Europe et au Japon. Ses enregistrements pour le label japonais Venus le placèrent en tête des ventes de jazz pour plus d'un album. En 1988, Higgins et la chanteuse et pianiste de jazz Meredith D'Ambrosio se marient et deviennent un groupe populaire dans les clubs et les festivals, autant que leurs enregistrements pour Sunnyside Records. En 2009, ses dates de concerts au Japon et en Corée sont annulées pour cause de longue maladie. Higgins décède à Fort Lauderdale d'un cancer du pancréas à l'âge de 77 ans. Bass - Jay Leonhart Drums - Joe Ascione Piano - Eddie Higgins Recorded at "The Studio" in New York on January 30 and 31, 2001

эта музыка - бальзам для души. Большое спасибо!

Hermoso Álbum 🎶

Very beautiful jazz music. Thanks for sharing. Have a good day~ ^^*

Yes!! I am "bewitched" by this lovely music🥰

Very nice atmospheric swinging trio. Eddie’s been around a long time and has recorded many albums. Must say that on (almost all) his sleeve-covers he’s showing sultry-elegant ladies. Enjoy this relaxing jazzy-trio folks & Cheers!

Merci lively via Eddie Higgins Trio 🎼🎸🎹💖🥁

Excelente album. Bella y exquisita manera de tocar y una profundidad que invita a no dejar de escuchar con el corazón. Gracias por compartirlo.

Wonderful album !

Making this world a better place.

Soundrecording excellent! Thanks for sharing.

High hat brushes along symbols creating shuffles and swings punctuated by rich lilting chords/rolls on piano. Highlighting notable classics with pepped interludes to put you in step. All coupled with an upright bass line to put it all together for you in a respite of sweetness and positivity to align the mind. Sit back add your favorite beverage and imbibe all your senses. -Now leaving you "Bewitched" and bewildered in a good way.

This is my favorite album. i hear it well . thank you

MAGNIDICA MUSICA. Muchas gracias! Salu2

I have and love this album.

Adorei !.💕💝 🎶

very harmonic and esthetic sound , thanks

Amazing finding this, and most are in my rep. Thank you!

He speaks directly to your soul!

A great album of this sensational trio.

wonderful, thanks.

Shared this with all my friends!

I dig it. Good for the soul.

Me encanta es una música muy sutil suave llena de energía que te hace vibrar y muy relajante para escucharla adoro el Jazz ¡¡Excelente!!!!😃😉👍💖

Listen to this gem on a high end speaker ( includes amp, subwoofer and tweeter)to get the complete effect.

Absolutely outstanding!!

What a trio... thumbs up. Hats off...

this perfect album found me!

Дякую Вам, шановні панове! Можу цілими днями слухати Вашу золоту музику!

i luv this music!!! Absolutely veryvery beautiful !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Que manera de tocar y los temas caray¡,..... que ricura de Jazz¡

Wish I could find a piano lounge that played music like this where I could just sit around in the darkness drinking gin and tonics right now. I'd even buy a tux for the privilege.

Bertie Higgins (Key Largo) had a brother named Eddie who died in Vietnam at age 18.

¡Qué bello album! Muchas gracias!!!

❤💯un po' di jazz cosi'...non puo' far che bene....stupendo....grazie!! Laura🌹

Great album, puts me in a mellow mood right now, wow 👏 😍 👌

No dejo de oír este album casi a diario, en donde sea, oficina o casa. La grabe ya en mi iTunes, y lo reproduzco en mi auto . ¡Soberbios arreglos!

Thank you.

the track 01, in spahish is CUANDO VUELVA A TU LADO, bolero of Maria Grever and my dad loved the lyrics of that bolero, thank a lot for the upload!

El agrado de la buena y serena musica es siempre un maravilloso regala para el alma. Cada vez mas son quienes encuentran en ella una manera diferente de conectar con su mas profunda intimidad

ME encanta desperar con jazz romantico y suave Gracias

Merveilleux cet album !

I always thought I'm quite adepted in Jazz. Unfortunately I was not. However: I did not know this Eddie Higgins Trio. But at last I found them here on UKposts. WHAT A DAMNED FINE JAZZ BAND! They are really GREAT!!!

Très joli: Merci!

Woa...... le plus grand bien vous me faites...

This is a treasure. 🎶 🎹

Fantastic!