A great live jazz album from three musicians at the absolute top of their game. Bill Evans takes the lead on piano, with drummer Paul Motian keeping time and Scott LaFaro laying down a solid bass line on top. Each of them complements the others perfectly and listening to the different versions of the tracks recorded over several sets included here shows how effortlessly they improvised around the basic structures of the composition.
Sadly Scott LaFaro was killed in a car accident just eleven days after this recording, and by all accounts the loss was devastating to Evans who was also struggling with his own personal demons of heroin addiction at the time. This makes listening something of a bitter sweet experience.
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