Before I share with you a beautiful recording by Bill Evans, my apologies for the broken links in Monday's email blast of my Phil Schaap post. The service I use—Feedblitz—screwed up. According to a member of their trouble-shooting team, the link was incorrectly classified by the service's anti-abuse system. What set off alarms was the use of code in Phil's page URL that's rarely used by real-world web sites but often used by spammers trying to hide potentially hostile websites under layers of multiple redirects. That has now been fixed so that the detection system is more judicious and Feedblitz apologized for the inconvenience. [Photo above of Bill Evans]
So for email subscribers, let me give you the link again. To access the vast archive of Phil Schaap's shows—including Bird Flight, his hosted birthday broadcasts of legendary artists, and other assorted Phil-related jazz programming—go here and scroll down.
And now for Bill Evans. The following audio clip features the Bill Evans Trio performing in Epalinges, Switzerland, in 1975. The hour and 18-minute concert was broadcast originally by Radio Suisse and is among the best Evans live recordings from the period. Evans is relaxed, measured and swinging. He was joined by bassist Eddie Gomez and the feathery drumming of Eliot Zigmund. The sound is superb. Go here...
A special thanks to Dave Thompson.