Bill Evans Play The Arrangements Of Jimmy Giuffre CD

Dual sessions from jazz heavy weights Bill Evans and Lee Konitz captured in New York in 1959. Features five bonus tracks including, "You Are Too Beautiful" and "Ev'rything I've Got (Belongs To You)." Spanish import.
This Lone Hill Jazz compilation presents the contents of two separate releases Lee Konitz Meets Jimmy Giuffre and You and Lee featuring Lee Konitz and Jimmy Giuffre (the latter playing baritone sax and contributing the arrangements) together, with pianist Bill Evans being the prominent sideman, though the ensemble includes tenor saxophonists Warne Marsh and Ted Brown (both of whom studied with Lennie Tristano alongside Konitz), and alto saxophonist Hal McKusick, though it is Konitz that is featured throughout the sessions from Lee Konitz Meets Jimmy Giuffre. Konitz contributed the quirky blues "Cork 'N' Bib," which features an unusually bluesy solo by Evans, plus an atonal offering by Marsh and Giuffre's robust single chorus. The breezy setting of "The Song Is You" is an excellent wrap to this spring session. Later the same year the musicians returned to the studio while adding guitarist Jim Hall to record the Verve LP You and Lee, which had not been reissued on CD until appearing in this anthology. Play the Arrangements of Jimmy Giuffre concentrates exclusively on Giuffre's arrangements of standards and while it isn't quite as wide-ranging as the earlier effort, Konitz is obviously inspired by the arrangements and excellent ensemble behind him. ~ Ken Dryden

Two outstanding 1959 studio New York sessions featuring Bill Evans and Lee Konitz in octet and nonet settings with an all star horn section and the incomparable arrangements of Jimmy Giuffre. Contains complete LP's 'You And Lee' & 'Lee Konitz Meets Jimmy Giuffre' and also includes booklet with comprehensive liner notes. Lone Hill Jazz. 2005.