Nice, appreciate the data point.
So essentially your typical bestbuy headphones. 
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Love it. Long time Bill Evans fan. Hadn’t heard this collaboration before. They both bring an incredible improvisational style to this effort. Thanks for the tip.
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Glad you enjoyed and my pleasure. Bill Evans is my speed. He has a way of seamlessly integrating his piano strokes with the guitarist’s strums - whether it be Jim Hall or Scott LaFaro.
It seems like we have some common overlap of interest. Thanks also for your recommendation of Halie Loren - I’ve enjoyed her Simply Love and After Dark albums.
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Dan Clark had Waltz for Debbie playing when I got to audition his Ether 2 at CanJam a couple of years ago. It helped make the right first impression!
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That’s awesome! Oh, to have been at the Village Vanguard when this and Sunday were recorded.
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Yes, seriously. When such things are possible again, the next time folks can make it to NYC again, it’d be well worth paying a visit to Small’s jazz club, which is just around the corner from the Vanguard - making for two great venues within a minute or two of each other. Small’s is a great place, a nice intimate space with lots of less well-known, talented performers. It’s an ideal place for being right there with the musicians and for finding entirely new musicians to follow.
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Thanks for the heads up on Small’s. It sounds like a very cool spot. Post pandemic things to look forward to.
When I was a teen, a group of my buddies and I used to drive to New York on many weekends, and go to the great jazz clubs: Village Vanguard, Village Gate, Five Spot, Blue Note, Eddie Condon’s, Basin Street East, etc. I was able to see many of the greats in person: Miles Davis, Bills Evans, Thelonius Monk, McCoy Tyner, Charles Mingus, Modern Jazz Quartet, Eric Dolphe, Roland Kirk, Peggy Lee, Maynard Ferguson, Dave Brubeck and others. It was a profound experience, and framed my musical life in ways unexplained.
I am sure it fired my quest to recapture the feelings of those live experiences through audiophile reproduction. I do remember one Sunday afternoon listening to Bill Evans at the Village Vanguard, and the performance was being recorded on a Nagra recorder. It still gives me chills today when I listen to Sunday at the Village Vanguard , wondering if that was the master I witnessed being recorded.
I am so grateful to these incredible musicians for opening my ears to great jazz, and for the audiophile industry for making it live again.
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I was able to see a number of the greats, but never in a jazz club. Small auditorium, or university gym with poor acoustics. I did see a few good C listers, like Papa John Creach in a club. Live in a university town in the middle of PA, and the choices are limited.
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Wow, to have been in “it” during that time/era. Seeing a Bill E. recorded performance at the Vanguard on a Sunday - what a gift and memory to savor for all time. I can imagine the impact those experiences had on your musical life.
I also recall attending live performances and your “quest to recapture the feelings of those live experiences through audiophile reproduction” resonates with me. For example, this is a track by a group out of Hawaii. I saw them live multiple times in venues of varying sizes. I’ve seen local bands cover it, and heard friends jam it during garage/backyard sessions. If I come across a piece of equipment that transports me to those times and places, I know I have something special.
Audio. Music. The sound.
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Every once in a while through great remastering and audiophile reproduction, I get the almost numinous reaction that I am again in the same room with Bill Evans. I can remember being really really irritated with other audience members who were talking during his performance, while I was absolutely transfixed. I knew at the time that I was witnessing something really special for the ages.
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To have such vivid memories of a special Sunday in 1961. I would have been transfixed (and irritated) also.
I note your emphasis on the remastering. It does start with the source material, which sets the ceiling/potential for what the rest of the chain ultimately reproduces.
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Self released by Micah Thomas. Found it on Tidal, but not on Qobuz. Beautiful trio.
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Last night Tidal suggested this to me. I’ve seen Jarrett years ago, and he’s always a favorite. This was very pretty.
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West Village is really the haven for those intimate venues.
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I have been in the audience at the Vanguard for bookings that later ended up w/live albums recorded, if not at the exact show, during the series of shows. One was Sun Ra (Sun Ra Sextet Live at the Village Vanguard/Rounder) and the other was Bill Frisell/Thomas Morgan duo (two ECM albums, Epistrophy and Small Town). It’s possible I was at more, but those two come to mind … Unforgettable evenings.
I have a fun interview with Lorraine Gordon in my (long out of date) Jazz Guide NYC, along with lots of other historical details (and once-contemporary details that are now historical). The 1st edition is nicer because of the moody photos, should you hazard the $2-3 purchase 
… (not a plug … I won’t see any income from it at this late date)
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Purchased! Thank you for bringing this book to our attention, I very much look forward to reading it. I’m sorry you’re not getting any proceeds from the sale.
I should get a copy of the Sun Ra and listen to it while reading your book!
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