Bill Evans Trio

Sunday at the Village Vanguard

RARE RTI Analogue Productions TEST PRESSING

October 25, 2002

AJAZ-9376 A/B/C/D Stereo

45 RPM 2LP

RARE and Out of Print!

Mastering by Kevin Gray and Steve Hoffman

VG+/Near Mint

Graded Cover/Record

I am selling off my entire Pop, Rock and Roll, Jazz and Surf record collection that I have been collecting for over 42 years.  I bought the entire Analogue Production Jazz series in 2004 and so this is the original edition!  Warm analog sound! 

: Sunday at The Village Vanguard RTI Record Technology Incorporated AJAZ-9376 A/B/C/D Analogue Productions: Near Mint/Near Mint  Vinyl is super clean brand new and plays Near Mint played only by me once!  The only other flaws would be minor superficial scuffs/hairlines from taking the record out of it's inner plastic lined sleeve.   Analogue Productions pressings are known for their fantastic fidelity and the piano and bass sound AWESOME!  Cover is super clean and still looks brand new with super nice gloss. The only reason for the official VG+ grade is due to an upper left front corner dent.  I bought this brand new and only played this once.  Original plastic lined paper inner sleeves  are in excellent condition.  I bought the entire collection when it first came out. 

"Bill Evans' recordings almost always received good to excellent sound, and the Analogue Productions reissues are no exception. While I don't own the original releases, the 45 rpm reissues clearly better, even after VTA adjustments, the later OJC reissues or the earlier 33 1/3 rpm Analogue Productions releases. The 45 rpm reissues are more musical and transparent; instruments have greater three-dimensionality and frequency extremes, especially lower octaves, exhibit greater resolution and impact. Get them before they're sold out!" Myles Astor, Positive-Feedback Online, Issue 34, 

Sunday at the Village Vanguard is one of the most important piano trio albums in history and a desert-island choice among many musicians. It marks the final appearance of bassist Scott LaFaro with Evans and drummer Paul Motian. LaFaro demonstrated a concept of jazz bass playing here that shattered traditional limits to how interactive and contrapuntal a bass line could be without totally abandoning its supportive function. He also soloed with unparalleled imagination and technical facility. The album also showed how Evans had refined an approach to solo improvisation in which the pulse was not as obvious as it had been in swing and bop approaches. And his extraordinarily-high standards required that each improvised melodic idea be extensively developed, resulting in more continuity and pacing than was common to any previous modern style. The influence of what LaFaro and Evans laid out here was still being felt in the 1990s.

Originally released in 1961.

Bill Evans, piano
Scott LaFaro, bass
Paul Motian, drums

I am selling off my entire Pop, Rock and Roll, Jazz and Surf record collection that I have been collecting for over 42 years.  If you're a record collector and audiophile, the cover condition is not the important part.  It is the fact that the vinyl are in super clean VG+ (almost Near MINT) condition!  Warm analog sound! Note that I have conservatively graded everything.  In other words, if a record is graded VG+, it is more than likely closer to Near Mint.

Condition: I grade according to Goldmine standards. That means a VG+ vinyl will be just that, an LP that is in beautiful condtion! I am very picky when it comes to grading and grade to Goldmine standards. I absolutely hate it when dealers ameliorate the condition of the vinyl!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Especially when I am the buyer!! All my LP's have been stored in my house upright on a shelf in an air conditioned and dry environment, meaning no warping, staining or mildew! 

Shipping: Shipping in the US will be via USPS Media Mail $8 and will be mailed in a sturdy LP mailer.