Bill Evans & George Russel Orchestra - Living Time (1972 Full Album)
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- Опубликовано: 13 мар 2016
- Living Time is an album by the Bill Evans George Russell Orchestra recorded in 1972 and released on the Columbia label, featuring performances by Evans with an orchestra conducted by Russell.
Personel: George Russell (arr) Bill Evans (p) and more
Released: 1972
Recorded: May 12-14, 1972 in New York City
Label: Columbia
Producer: Helen Keane
0:00 Event I
3:54 Event II
12:19 Event III
15:08 Event IV
20:40 Event V
32:35 Event VI
36:48 Event VII
39:03 Event VIII
The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 2 stars and stated "The music on this set unfortunately is not all that interesting. Russell's lengthy and episodic work "Living Time" (which has eight "events") features crowded ensembles as played by Evans' trio plus 19 musicians (including two additional keyboardists). Despite the major names in the "backup group" the focus throughout is on Evans' acoustic and electric keyboards. The problem is that the music is rather dull and surprisingly forgettable. 
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George Russell was an absolute genius, and accomplished so much in his lifetime. What the hell has Scott Yanow ever accomplished? Critics have no purpose!!
Apparently Yanow is hard of hearing. Absolutely great compositions and performances. All the “activities” that are being played into an orchestral “event “ is just too beautiful!
Actually, critics can be very helpful in increasing your appreciation of music that they understand. Just learning whether some one likes or doesn't like something is indeed useless. This was a lazy & inaccurate review by Yanow.
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My favorite Album of all times! Living Time...
I always love a band with four bass players!
George Russell - arranger, conductor
Bill Evans - piano, Fender Rhodes piano
Snooky Young, Ernie Royal, Richard Williams - trumpet, flugelhorn
Stanton Davis - trumpet
Howard Johnson - flugelhorn, tuba, bass clarinet
John Clark - french horn
Dave Bargeron - tuba
Jimmy Giuffre - tenor saxophone, flute
Joe Henderson - tenor saxophone
Sam Rivers - tenor saxophone, flute, oboe
Sam Brown - bass guitar, electric guitar
Ted Saunders - electric piano, clavinet
Webster Lewis - organ, electric piano
Eddie Gómez - acoustic bass
Ron Carter (on 5,7), Stanley Clarke (on 1,2,3), Herb Bushler (on 4,6,8) - Fender bass
Tony Williams, Marty Morell - drums
Marc Belair - percussion
Edd Kolakowski - Steinway piano technician
Bill Evans : piano, Fender Rhodes
Eddie Gomez : contrebasse
Marty Morell : batterie
The George Russell Orchestra :
Ernie Royal, Snooky Young, Stanton Davis, Richard Williams : trompette, bugle
Howard Johnson : tuba, bugle, clarinette basse
Dave Baker, Garnett Brown : trombone
Dave Bargeron : trombone, tuba
John Clark : cor
Jimmy Giuffre : saxophone ténor, saxophone baryton, clarinette, flûte
Joe Henderson : saxophone ténor, flûte
Sam Rivers : saxophone ténor, flûte, hautbois
Webster Lewis : Fender Rhodes, orgue Hammond
Ted Saunders : Fender Rhodes, clavinet
Sam Brown : guitare
Ron Carter, Stanley Clarke : contrebasse, guitare basse
Herb Bushler : guitare basse
Tony Williams : batterie
Marc Belair : percussions
What a lineup, can it get better than this ?
that's an impressive personnel list
Thanks for that! Incredible line up. Just finding Russell's work now and am utterly blown away.
Damn! no wonder this is a work of genius, what a line up!!!!
Fantastic. George is one of the most important figures in modern music for so many reasons.
Joshua Agree!
@@RanBlakePiano Mr. Blake, if I may...To me, like George, YOU are another one such essential/important figure who's contributions to modern music are not only vastly underrated, but long, long since due as to your greatness, if I may. You are a wonderful teacher, you really opened up my ears tremendously and helped to grow them up in a huge way. I can only say, and I believe (know, hope) that I speak for many...thank you, thank you!
@@joshklein6450 thanks josh .I’d love a visit if you’re in eastern Mass this summer .
I discovered george when working in west Hartford 1955
I have always enjoyed this album.... there is nothing "dull" about it.... it's a very good album...
Since BillEvansArchive didn't see fit to *list all the musicians*, here's what I found at Discogs:
George Russell Composer, Conductor, Arranger
Carl Atkins Assistant Conductor
Piano, Fender Rhodes: Bill Evans
Electric Piano, Keyboards: Teddy Saunders
Organ, Electric Piano: Webster Lewis
Bass: Eddie Gomez
Electric Bass & Guitar: Sam Brown
Fender Bass: Herb Bushler, Ron Carter, Stanley Clarke
Drums: Tony Williams, Marty Morell
Percussion: Marc Belair*
Flugelhorn, Tuba, Bass Clarinet: Howard Johnson
French Horn: John Clark
Tenor saxes: Joe Henderson, Jimmy Giuffre, Sam Rivers, Dave Baker (+oboe, flute)
Flute, Clarinet: Sam Rivers
Trombones: Dave Bargeron, Garnett Brown, Stanton Davis (+ Tuba)
Trumpet, Flugelhorn: Snooky Young, Richard Williams, Ernie Royal
Good job. Thanks.
I worked with george for 2 years
That must have been an amazing experience.
Event V: Finally found this tune again! Had it once on a compilation album called "The Progressives". Fantastic!
been looking for this for decades...Bill - modal
my Tube Amp/PreAmp luvs' the opening of this album.
Moving into Russell's later work here where the big band funk really starts to take hold, and it is a thing of great beauty. He clearly finds funk to be a natural home and a grounded root for higher exploration and improv for his class act musicians. Event II is a personal favorite - the building wall-of-sound tension and that wonderful thing Russell does in his scores, having many parts all moving at incredibly different speeds all at the same time. (I'm sure there's a technical name for this).
If you want a more 'polished'/'produced' update, check out Russell's 1996 album, 'It's About Time', which reworks this album with a smaller ensemble (except for the interesting addition of a string section) but no less impressive in terms of sound power. Plus there's a couple of new pieces to set things going apace.
Russell said that this work is a journey through the stages of life, from conception to death. The final event, presumably expressing near death and then death itself - with its shrill piano clarion call preceding the classic three 'suprise!' Da- Da-Daaaah! revelation notes, repeating endlessly, then finally releasing (the soul?) into a dizzying spin, into....into?....who knows?, WOW - is just fantastic!
Thanks for uploading this for the hopefully curious world. I was studying with George as the masterpiece made it on the market under the illustrious Columbia label. I lost this record after moving to Europe and I finally found it in 2009 in a Japanese Library. Otherwise it was not to be found. I am so excited that your organization, dedicated to Bill brought this piece back into the public service. Amazing poly-Lydian textures and mind blowing grooves. I am someone who furthers his Lydian Chromatic Concept.
paul amrod Well said
I got this many years ago. Loved it then, still do.
I think I had this a 33-1/3 a long time ago. I relied on the Columbia label for quality music production like I would Arrow for shirts or Champion for spark plugs.
True story - Rick Beato studied with George Russell when George was teaching his music theory, probably in Boston in the mid 80s if I remember correctly. Rick said George was a natty dresser and would carry around his famous book plus all of the many typed up revisions and changes that he'd constantly make to his evolving and somewhat impenetrable theory.
Anyway, one time George took a look at Rick's work, and sighed before saying, "Rick, you're gonna write a #1 single someday." Not exactly what George was aiming at with his students, but of course, Rick did just that in 2007! 😂
That is a great story!
This music is like a musical Jackson Pollack painting.
loved what he did with don ellis and eric dolphy
Outrageous, incredible!!
The BOMB!
Scott Yanow isn't a God. At all. This album Is excellent, despite is review! Buy It.
Pierluigi Romagnoli Agree .this is fabulous!
excellent. thanks for sharing :)
The 1996 reworking of this set (within 'It's About Time') is also definitely worth a listen.
Where can we hear it ?
@@PierreVeniot "It's About Time", album by George Russell's Living Time Orchestra, released in 1996 and currently available on RUclips. From the 3rd track (Event I) forward is the reimagining of the work on this video.
This is one of the under-recognized great jazz albums.
Interestingly underwhelmed review from Scott Yanow (a highly respected writer about Jazz). When this album came out I thought it was a very interesting, unique, extension of what Russell had been recording since the 1950's. I found it then and, listening to it for the first time in many years, now, intriguing and weirdly captivating. Check Jan Garbarek out during his screaming, EuroJazz, Out period. Great stuff!
It's time for a retrospective of George Russell's work, incredibly underrated.
Was Yanow expecting a Bill Evans Trio recording or something?
Yeah. He know doubt wanted to hear "Waltz for Debbie."
Scott Yanow must be deaf of both ears! How can you forget the bass ostinato in Event II!
this is a phenomenal record that synthesizes the madcap orchestra sound with psychedelic groove. i bet it sounded too "trendy" for yanow. or maybe his ears were just tired. intent critical listening is draining work.
Scott Yanow’s review shows he isn’t hearing what Russell and Evans are doing, This is a brilliant and innovative album and will sound fresh and exciting years from now. It’s 2023 now and it sounds incredible 50 years/half a century later!!… when all the original musicians have passed and are gone.
Event V @ 21:30 ...possibly Evans' best
Oh mierda! Tu anuncio, RUclips, me desbarató un orgasmo musical!!!!! Juajuajua
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Event IV got me
Lol xD i was listening to this and by accident also Thelonious Monk was playing at the same time... Only after 10 minutes or so that I realised haha
sometimes that happeds to me, accidetally I use to listen two albums at the same time and when a realize i said ''what kind of cool stuff is this?'', and then i see that were to albums playing at the same time... xD
Jimi Hendrix very cool , jimi!
Interesting Bill Evans agreed to this... he was often disdainful of the avant garde
You don't turn down Miles Davis or George Russell, they were homies, geniuses.(Ca va sans dire).
Birds of a feather...
Not true he simply felt that unstructured catharsis doesn't necessarily equal art. George Russel could never be accused of unstructured catharsis.
I'm both surprised then not surprised.
"....the focus throughout is on Evans' acoustic and electric keyboards." As if that could ever be a bad thing.
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the adds are really on obnoxious
Dull? Then i 'd like to be a very boring person.
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some repulsive fade-outs here
These events are eternal. You arise to explore the spaces, and they remain after you leave without resolution
so much better than gil evans, in my opinion
Mingus did it right. This doesn't.
Mingus wasn't trying to make music like this, so your comment is meaningless.
Yanov is a critic lacking competence for such music - or a man who is deaf. The reputation of the title guarantees nothing - the critic from Wire magazine understood nothing of the music of the eminent Romanian composer Corneliu Dan Georgescu, and this despite the fact that he had at his disposal my insightful essay, which the composer himself considered the best that had ever been written about him and his music. In addition, from between the lines of the text gushed the stench of post-colonial mentality, for him the entire great cultural area - the Carpathians, the Balkans, the territories of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - are just some kind of backyard separating the Great West from Great Russia. Vomit.
Well, and Mr. Yanov is as insightful as that guy from the Wire :P