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The Bill Evans Trio

Recorded	Feb 2, 1961
Label	Riverside Records
Released	1961
Personnel	3 credited players
Discogs	master 258215

The record

LaFaro's bass climbs into the harmony rather than holding down the bottom, and Motian shades rather than states the beat, months before the group would end. A short, strange, unrepeatable way of playing trio music that nobody quite managed again.

Session personnel

Scott Lafaro — bass
Paul Motian — drums
Bill Evans — piano

Contemporary reception

No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.

Pressings

Showing the first pressing, audiophile reissues and copies carrying a collector marker, out of 95 pressings on file.

1961	Riverside Records · RLP 351 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono earliest on file · deep groove
2007	Riverside Records · UCCO-9009 — CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue OJC
2015	Original Jazz Classics · OJC-037 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo OJC
2026	Riverside Records · RLP 9351 — Vinyl, LP, 45 RPM, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo, 180gm Kevin Gray remaster
—	Riverside Records · 9351 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo OJC
1961	Riverside Records · RLP 9351 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo · deep groove
1962	Riverside Records · RLP 351 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress, Mono, Narrow DG/concentric circles · deep groove
1974	Milestone (4) · SMJ-6038 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, White Label · deep groove
1961	Riverside Records · RLP 351 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1961	Riverside Records · RLP 9351 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1961	Riverside Records · RLP 351 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Variation
1961	Riverside Records · RLP 351 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1962	Riverside Records · RLP 351 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1962	Riverside Records · RLP 351 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono · laminated sleeve