Title: Tremendously Disappointing
Product review: I've followed Andy LaVerne for decades. A heck of a player and an ultimate rarity: An Actual One-time Student of Bill Evans.So how can a guy with Andy's background and abilities do such an underwhelming service to the legacy of Bill Evans?This folio is extremely disappointing. No, it's not meant to be a series of Evans transcriptions, but I don't know WHAT it would be considered, or where it would fit in the overall spectrum of Evans folios. If LaVerne has a great inner understanding of Evans approach or stylings, these "renditions" surely don't indicate it. Yes, there are a lot of Evans folios available, mostly transcription-oriented, but there is at least one that has arrangements of Evans pieces that are much more indicative of his composing and playing ideas, in particular his signature, subtle inner-movement of harmonic voicings. But you don't get that here.I doubt that I'll ever have cause to open this folio again. But at least it'll stay in mint condition.
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