Bill Evans – Behind The Dikes: The 1969 Netherlands Recordings (2 CD, 2021/FLAC)

Zev Feldman, co-president of Resonance Records, seems to have made it his life's mission to present every unreleased note that pianist Bill Evans ever recorded. Live At Art D'Lugoff's Top Of The Gate (2012), Some Other Time (2016), Another Time: The Hilversum Concert (2017), Evans In England (2019) and Live At Ronnie Scott's (2020) represent the Bill Evans discography on the Resonance Records label, all produced by Feldman. And now 2021 finds Feldman teaming with the Elemental Music label, to release yet another long lost live recording by an Evans trio, Behind the Dikes—The 1969 Netherlands Recordings. 

The two disc's worth of music come from a pair of performances in 1969 in the Netherlands. The group was in top form, trotting out a triple handful of tunes that were familiar mainstays in the the Evans repertoire—"Emily," "Stella By Starlight," "Waltz For Debby," "Autumn Leaves" and more. These are presented by three musicians deep in a comfort zone, navigating bright up-tempo tunes and slipping into introspective reveries and breathtakingly beautiful balladry. The two takes on pianist Denny Zeitlin's "Quiet Now" are as lovely as anything this trio ever recorded, and their rendition of "Someday My Prince Will Come" is as bright and propulsive as can be in a celebratory up-tempo groove, with Morell's joyous shuffling and Gomez' assertive headlong heartbeat.



  • Bill Evans - piano
  • Eddie Gomez - bass
  • Marty Morell - drums
with the Metropole Orkest directed by Dolf Van Der Linden (CD2#11,12).

CD1#1-CD2#3 recorded at KRO Studio I, Hilversum on March 26, 1969.
CD2#4-10 recorded at RAI Congrescentrum Amsterdam on November 28, 1969.
CD2#11-12 recorded at Vara Studio 8, HIlversum on March 25, 1969.






CD1 {00:59:40}

01. Announcement by Michiel de Ruyter (2:15)
02. You're Gonna Hear from Me (3:25)
03. Emily (4:51)
04. Stella by Starlight (5:38)
05. Turn Out the Stars (5:03)
06. Waltz for Debby (6:12)
07. 'Round Midnight (6:32)
08. I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart (3:33)
09. Alfie (4:57)
10. Beautiful Love (6:10)
11. My Funny Valentine (6:28)
12. Love Theme from Spartacus (4:36)


CD2 {00:57:48}

01. One for Helen (4:41)
02. Quiet Now (5:36)
03. Someday My Prince Will Come (6:04)
04. Announcement by Aad Bos (0:47)
05. Very Early (5:13)
06. A Sleepin' Bee (4:57)
07. Turn Out the Stars (5:06)
08. Autumn Leaves (4:21)
09. Quiet Now (5:34)
10. Nardis (6:05)
11. Granadas (4:40)
12. Pavane (4:44) 

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