The following matrix displays ten releases of the music of the Bill Evans Trio recorded by Riverside Records, Sunday 25 June 1961 on location at the Village Vanguard jazz club in New York City. I have used as my base line the Bill Evans: The Complete Live At The Village Vanguard 1961 release by Victor Entertainment, Inc., Tokyo, Japan in 2002. This latest release is a re-master of all the music recorded that day from the original unedited master tapes in chronological order.
To the right of my base line, in order of release, are the following (click on titles to see full bibliographic-discographical descriptions):
Sunday at the Village Vanguard 1961 LP Waltz For Debby 1962 LP The Village Vanguard Sessions 1973 'two-fer' 2 LPs More From the Vanguard 1984 LP At the Village Vanguard 1986 CD Sunday at the Village Vanguard 1987 CD Waltz For Debby 1987 CD Sunday at the Village Vanguard 2001 CD Waltz For Debby 2001 CD
The Track column lists by CD and by Set (there were five sets, two during the afternoon's matinee and three during the evening), each track from the 3-CD baseline Complete Live recording, including Set 1's Track 01 -- introductory comments to the Vanguard's audience by presumably Orrin Keepnews, the producer; and Track 06 -- intermission discussion among the musicians; Set 4's opening Track 05 -- discussion of repertoire; and Set 5's closing Track 07 -- "a few final bars" discussion between (presumably) Orrin Keepnews and Bill Evans.The '3CD-Comp 02' column lists (in my short-hand) the corresponding musical selections ('tunes') from the Complete Live recording. Glo's Stp, for example refers to 'Gloria's Step'; 'MyMGNow' to 'My Man's Gone Now'; 'Alice' to Alice in Wonderland', and so on.
The number in parentheses following the title refers to the take (first, second, etc.) of a particular tune. For example, 'Gloria's Step' was played three times over the five sets, and thus had three recorded takes. Titles like 'My Foolish Heart' without a number following, were played and 'taken' but once during the five sets. With one exception: Orrin Keepnews, in his program notes to More From the Vanguard, commented that 'My Man's Gone Now' was recorded twice that day, but the original master tape containing what would have been labeled as 'take 1' was lost when Riverside's master tapes were moved from one location to another. The remaining 'take 2' evidently is now referred to as the only surviving take and thus has no number following it.
Other columns list side (s) and track (trk) on LP releases; track (01, 02, etc.) on the CD releases.
Track 3CD-Comp 02 S61 W62 VVS73 MFV84 AVV86 S87 W87 S01 W01 CD 1 TT 49:27
Set 1 01 Intro (?O.K.) 02 Glo's Stp (1) 03 Alice (1) s1 trk1 06 08 04 My Flsh Hrt s1 trk1 s1 trk1 01 01 01 05 All of You (1) omitted 09 06 Intermission Set 2 07 My Rmce (1) s2 trk1 s1 trk2 02 06 04 08 SmOthrTime s2 trk2 s1 trk3 08 05 09 Solar s1 trk3 s2 trk1 03 04 03 CD 2 TT 64:19
Set 3 01 Glo's Stp (2) s1 trk1 s2 trk2 04 01 01 02 MyMGNow s1 trk2 s2 trk3 05 03 02 03 All of You (2) s2 trk2 s3 trk1 06 07 05 04 Detour (1) s1 trk2 05 08 Set 4 05 Discussion 06 Wtz FDb (1) s2 trk4 03 07 07 Alice (2) s2 trk1 s3 trk2 05 04 08 Porgy s3 trk3 07 10 10 09 My Rmce (2) s2 trk2 07 09 10 Milestones s2 trk3 s4 trk1 08 09 06 CD 3 TT 39:29
Set 5 01 Detour (2) s1 trk3 s4 trk2 04 03 02 Glo's Stp (3) s2 trk1 02 07 03 Wtz FDb (2) s1 trk2 s4 trk3 09 02 02 04 All of You (3) s1 trk3 08 10 05 Jade Vsn (1) s2 trk3 10 11 06 Jade Vsn (2) s2 trk3 s4 trk4 10 09 06 07 Final bars TT 2:33:15 64:59 68:31 65:36 76:27 65:26 Track Comp 02CD S61 W62 VVS73 MFV84 AVV86 S87 W87 S01 W01
Live At The Village Vanguard / Bill Zavatsky
For those who have endured the background chatter that weaves in and out of the music of Evans, LaFaro, and Motian that Sunday, Bill Zavatsky's satirical poem, "Live At The Village Vanguard" which gives us another reading of that occasion.