Saxophonist Bill Evans Shady Lady
Excellent, highly melodic CD After providing an abundance of hardedged, aggressive jazzfunk and jazzrap on Live and Escape, Bill Evans surprised his followers by being so relaxed on Starfish and the Moon. This excellent, highly melodic CD was hailed as Bill Evans acoustic album, which was misleading because Starfish has its share of keyboards and synthesizers as well as electric bass and electric guitar. But it is accurate to say that the rapfree Starfish uses more acoustic instruments and less amplification than one had come to expect from the soprano and tenor saxophonist, who favors subtlety on such introspective, lyrical jazzpop as The Last Goodbye, Something In the Rose and I ll Miss Even when he gets into a funkminded groove on Whiskey Talk and Shady Lady, Evans is moody and evocative rather than intense. Though the Chicago native had often played lyrically in the past, he was never as consistently restrained
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