Bill Evans Trio: Trio 64 Mastercut Edition #026 – 050

PURCHASING THIS ITEM GUARANTEES THAT YOU WILL RECEIVE A BOX NUMBERED BETWEEN #026 AND #050. EACH IS ONE OF ONE AND FIRST COME FIRST SERVE.

Joining Bill Evans (piano) on Trio 64 — his initial three-piece recording for Verve — is the compact rhythm section of Gary Peacock (bass) and Paul Motian (drums). The effort spotlights their communal and intuitive musical discourse, hinging on an uncanny ability of the musicians to simultaneously hear and respond.

All the more interesting, Evans had not interacted in this setting before, having most recently worked with Chuck Israels (bass) and Larry Bunker (drums). 

(AMG Review)

MUSICIANS

• Piano: Bill Evans
• Bass: Gary Peacock
• Drums: Paul Motian

SIDE A

1. Little Lulu
2. A Sleeping Bee
3. Always
4. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

SIDE B

1. I’ll See You Again
2. For Heaven’s Sake
3. Dancing In The Dark
4. Everything Happens To Me

RECORDED TO TAPE

• Date of Recording: December 18, 1963
• Location: New York City
• Original Tape Number: V6-8578
• Recording Producer: Creed Taylor
• Session Engineer: Bop Simpson

BOOKLET CONTENT LIST

• A Risograph copy of the recording information
• A Cyanotype of Bill Evans after an original photograph by Jerome Knill, from a different session
• Polaroid of microscopic view of the real groove
• A Risograph after an original photo of the Supersense Living Room studio. photographer: Ákos Burg, 2021
• “How to caress” by Florian “Doc” Kaps. An info sheet about the Supersense master records and how to care for them
• “Project Mastercut” by Florian “Doc” Kaps. An introduction to the Mastercut editions

About the Mastercut

In the conventional record production process, the term “Mastercut” refers to a template disc from which the pressing stamper is derived and which is destroyed in that process. But in our editions, each and every record is the original Mastercut, cut directly into a lacquer disc. Making this premium-quality component of record production widely available for the first time!

Our Mastercut Records are cut directly from completely unedited 1:1 copies of carefully selected original tapes of carefully selected sound recordings.