Bill Evans – Sunday At The Village Vanguard (Grey Marble Vinyl)

‘Sunday at the Village Vanguard’ is a live album by jazz pianist and composer Bill Evans and his Trio consisting of Evans, bassist Scott LaFaro, and drummer Paul Motian. Released in 1961, the album is routinely ranked as one of the best live jazz recordings of all time. It was drawn from material recorded on June 25, 1961, at the Village Vanguard in New York City. The trio played five sets—two in the afternoon and three in the evening—each one comprising four or five numbers and lasting about half an hour. This was the last performance by the Bill Evans Trio with bassist Scott LaFaro, who was killed in a car accident eleven days after the recording. Starting in 1992, both this album and its successor ‘Waltz for Debby’ have been awarded a crown in all nine editions of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings.