When I was obsessively listening to Bill Evans a year ago, somehow I missed out on the collaboration of Kronos Quartet with Eddie Gomez and Jim Hall, two musical partners of Evans. They recorded some of my favorite songs by Evans, and although it's only Hall and Gomez who take solos, the results are spectacular. The style and compositions of Evans always lend themselves well to classical music, particularly French impressionists but even the quasi-baroque sounds of the Kronos Quartet here. With Gomez to establish a jazz foundation, Kronos Quartet's tribute to Evans is astonishingly quite successful. Although their Monk album was a tad underwhelming, I would love to hear them tackle compositions by various other jazz legends. Perhaps Ornette Coleman? Eric Dolphy?
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