🎷 AotW: CTI Bill Evans: Montreux II (CTI Records CTI 6004)

Bill Evans: Montreux II

CTI Records CTI 6004
Released 1970

• A1: Introduction / Very Early 5:10
• A2: Alfie 5:05
• A3: 34 Skidoo 5:20
• B1: How My Heart Sings 3:55
• B2: Israel 4:08
• B3: I Hear A Rhapsody 5:30
• B4: Peri's Scope 5:30

Bass – Eddie Gomez
Cover [Photo] – Pete Turner
Design – Leonard S. Levine
Drums – Marty Morrell*
Engineer – Pierre Grandjean
Liner Notes – Brian Blevins
Other [Rerecording] – Rudy Van Gelder
Piano – Bill Evans
Producer – Helen Keane

Recorded June 19, 1970 at the Casino De Montreux Switzerland
(The Montreux Jazz Festival)



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[Rudy]

This one I admit was a surprise. I'd seen the title before but never noticed which label it was on...until I started looking more closely at CTI releases and noticed this album in the list. I have a lot of Bill Evans, but primarily his Riverside output, followed by Verve. And that is the connection here--Taylor produced his Verve recordings. It's strange, though, that Evans only recorded a single album for CTI. And even there, this was a live recording at Montreux, so it could be somewhat of a fluke that it ended up on CTI. I think Evans went to Warner after he left Verve?

The first Montreux recording (Verve) featured Jack DeJohnette and IIRC, Eddie Gomez, who became a somewhat permanent part of the Evans trio after the passing of Scott LaFaro.

 

[4mc]

This one I admit was a surprise. I'd seen the title before but never noticed which label it was on...until I started looking more closely at CTI releases and noticed this album in the list. I have a lot of Bill Evans, but primarily his Riverside output, followed by Verve. And that is the connection here--Taylor produced his Verve recordings. It's strange, though, that Evans only recorded a single album for CTI. And even there, this was a live recording at Montreux, so it could be somewhat of a fluke that it ended up on CTI. I think Evans went to Warner after he left Verve?

The first Montreux recording (Verve) featured Jack DeJohnette and IIRC, Eddie Gomez, who became a somewhat permanent part of the Evans trio after the passing of Scott LaFaro.

Helen bought this to Creed as a finished tape. Right around the time Creed was exiting A&M. Creed convinced Rudy to work on the tapes and create the masters.

Creed didn't have any input to the music, the style or anything else, a few years earlier Creed and Gene Lee's has convinced Helen to manage Bill and Creed shipped it as one of the first on CTI.

Thats why it says produced by Helen and there is no CT signature on the jacket or labels.