In April, May, June and July of 1962, pianist Bill Evans was ferociously busy in recording studios. Ten months earlier, on June 25, his first working trio was at its peak, recording in exquisite form at New York's Village Vanguard. The trio's three musicians had fully realized Evans's dream of playing conversationally—each member responding to the other…
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