Echoes of Bill, by The Bill Evans Guitar Project

Echoes of Bill

by The Bill Evans Guitar Project

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1.	Bill's Hit Tune 05:11	buy track
2.	02_Children's Play Song 04:57	buy track
3.	03_Twelve Tone Tune 03:47	buy track
4.	04_Re: Person I Knew 06:06	buy track
5.	05_Show Type Tune 05:07	buy track

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Tracks:

1) Bill's Hit Tune
2) Children's Play Son
3) Twelve Tone Tune
4) Re: Person I Knew
5) Showtype Tune

All songs © Ludlow Music/Bill Evans

On July 2, 2000 John Hebert, Bruce Hall, Rez Abbasi and I got together to play some Bill Evans tunes in Bruce Hall's Brooklyn home studio. Bruce was recording into a now-obsolete digital recording platform (mini disc) at the time, there was a lot of mic bleed, small room, mini-disc....it wasn't Avatar. Despite this the end product sounds remarkably good. Bruce did some beautiful playing and some beautiful engineering here. As far as any of us can remember we just got together to record in this two guitar configuration that one time although we had all played together on many different gigs and recording projects...in a lot of ways New York was and is a small town. We were pretty much reading through some Evans tunes, coming up with quick arrangements, recording and moving on to the next tune. It's got a really nice vibe and for all you guitar players, Rez is absolutely burning.

We met at Bruce's house, read through some tunes, hung out afterward, did a lot of bullshitting and for the next 20 years didn't give the recording much thought, if any. Then...about a year ago Bruce remixed the tunes we recorded and sent us all a copy. It was an emotional experience for me to hear this so many years later and I think for the others as well. All the great memories I have of playing with these stellar musicians, all the miles between then and now, the gratitude that I felt and still feel to these musicians that I admire and respect for including me and for the commitment, heart, soul and talent they put into any and all music that they make. I think you can hear all that in this recording. We got it mastered through Gene Paul at GandJ Audio - Gene and Joel Kerr did a freaking great job on that. Huge thanks to Bruce Hall for his hosting, playing and engineering.
Bruce Saunders / July 16, 2021

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released July 20, 2021

Rez Abbasi - Guitar
Bruce Hall - Drums/Engineer
John Hébert - Bass
Bruce Saunders - Guitar

Recorded S. Portland St, Brooklyn, NY on July 2, 2000
Recorded and Mixed by Bruce Hall
Mastered by G and J Audio

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