Bill Evans - Some Other Time: The Lost Session From The Black Forest (2 LP)

Product specifications

Details

Album

Some Other Time: The Lost Session From The Black Forest

Artist

Bill Evans

LP release year

2022

Album release date

22 apr 2016

Label

2xHD

EAN

632726369088

Available

Yes

Product information

Format

LP

Quantity

2 piece(s)

Type

Reissue

Mono or stereo

Stereo

Duration

1 uur, 33 min

Tracks

21 tracks

EAN

EAN

632726369088

Other

Limited Edition

No

Deluxe Edition

Yes

Country

Canada

Genre

Jazz

Box set

No

Remastered

No

Reissue

Yes

• Better Under RSD September 2020?

  5 out of 5 stars
  _FUODEESCAJDJ3 January 2026United States🇺🇸

  Wouldn't this be better under RSD September 2020? Did they maybe have different months in different places?

• Brilliant Chill Masterpiece

  5 out of 5 stars
  ibiiyhh16 December 2025United States🇺🇸

  Don't be mislead: this ain't no average session. It's as brilliant as it is chill. Absolute masterpiece!

• Top-Notch Package, Minor Disc Issue

  5 out of 5 stars
  yaorxayyilzuvw4 December 2025United States🇺🇸

  I'm right there with the positive feedback. This is truly a top-notch package, from the flat discs with their super smooth edges to the gatefold cover and booklet. The audio is fantastic, clean and crisp. My only gripe, like a few others, is that disc one (both sides) has a bit of light snap and crackle, but it's not enough to distract me from the music. I haven't tried vacuum cleaning yet, so that might help. Meanwhile, disc two is completely silent and sounds incredible, so there's a slight difference between the two discs. But all in all, I'm really pleased with my purchase. #419/6000

• Bill Evans' Lost Studio Gem

  5 out of 5 stars
  exomjiojgifeun1 December 2025United Kingdom🇬🇧

  2xHD got the 'Best Sounding album of the year' award from Positive Feedback for this album consecutively for two years.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VykTmoDENHc Some Other Time is a newly found Bill Evans studio album, initially taped in 1968 in Germany but only just released now. It still sounds vibrant and lively almost 50 years down the line.Some Other Time: The Lost Session From the Black Forest was taped when Evans was on tour in Europe with a trio that included Eddie Gomez on bass and, on drums, a young Jack DeJohnette, who would later gain much more fame with Miles Davis, Keith Jarrett, and as a bandleader himself. It was recorded between stops on a European tour by German producer Joachim-Ernst Berendt, with the plan that the rights and a release strategy would be figured out later. This particular group had only been documented on record just once, on At the Montreux Jazz Festival, recorded five days prior to this date. So the existence of an unheard studio album by the trio is a significant addition to the Evans story.The piano/bass/drums trio setting is where Evans did his most important and lasting work. Eddie Gomez, heard on this album, was a steady partner of Evans’ for a decade, and the level of empathy between the two players is something to witness. On “What Kind of Fool Am I?,” Gomez’s dancing lines weave between Evans’ bass notes, almost serving as a third hand on the piano. On the immortal title track, Gomez seems like half a conversation, accenting and commenting on Evans’ melodic flourishes. For his part, DeJohnette offers tasteful and low-key accompaniment, heavy on the brushwork and soft textures on cymbals—he was more of a role-player at this point in his career. But the three together feel like a true unit.Evans’ art has endured in part because he has a brilliant combination of formal sophistication and accessibility; critics and his fellow musicians heard the genius in his approach to chords, his lightness of touch, and his open-eared support of others in his band, while listeners could put on his records and simply bask in their beauty, how Evans’ continual foregrounding of emotion made the sad songs extra wrenching and the happy ones extra buoyant. 2XHD - Bill Evans - Some Other Time (The Lost Session From The Black Forest) Vol 1A newly unearthed studio session from the iconic pianist Bill Evans,' Some Other Time: The Lost Session from The Black Forest' is a landmark discovery for jazz enthusiasts around the globe. This Bill Evans trio session was taped on June 20, 1968, nearly 10 years after the legendary Kind of Blue sessions with Miles Davis, and five days after the famous live performance at the 1968 Montreux Jazz Festival, which was released on Verve and won a Grammy. This is the only studio album recorded of this trio and features Evans in trio, duo and solo configurations with jazz greats bassist Eddie Gomez and drummer Jack DeJohnette.The recordings on this album constitute the material from a June 20th, 1968 studio session taped by Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer (HGBS) and Joachim-Ernst Brendt in Germany’s Black Forest. This is no ordinary recording. This enthralling Bill Evans session was taped five days after a famous performance at the 1968 Montreux jazz festival by Evans, bassist Eddie Gomez and drummer Jack DeJohnette. Verve’s Montreux live recording won a Grammy, but this studio session has been in the vaults ever since.

• Annoying Pops, Gorgeous Tunes

  2 out of 5 stars
  Sqoznotoduwadivx19 November 2025United States🇺🇸

  Gorgeous tunes, but it's packed with those annoying pops and clicks start to finish. Absolutely terrible.