Sunday at the Village Vanguard

I love bass but the extended bass solos on here got to be a bit much. Otherwise, not bad.

Not for me

Good stuff all around

I can understand why this is highly regarded, and I really do enjoy some of the instrumentation, but it's just too slow for me. Good study music though

4/5. Quite a good live recording, gets a lot of mileage only using three instruments (piano, bass, drums.) Evan’s piano playing is fantastic all throughout, though credit also needs to be given to Scott LaFaro who plays bass on this album as his bass-lines and bass solos are amazing. highlight for me is probably “Alice in Wonderland”.

It was ok. Decent jazz background music.

At first I was going to give this three stars. In my rating system that means " I wouldn't put it on but I wouldn't mind if it was on in the background". Like most cocktail lounge jazz, the drums in piano are just doing their little pleasant wandering around . But then that bass! The bass will make me put this back on again

I liked this. Some reviewers call it elevator music but there is way more going on than they are giving credit for. I think what’s going on is since Bill found such a perfect match of chill and improv, that formula has been copied to death. The problem is that all those copies pale in comparison to this. This album is now in my rotation of reading on the couch music.

Historically I have not been a fan of jazz. I'd say I didn't find this too hard to listen to but intermittently felt bored. Maybe I'll learn to appreciate jazz one day.

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Hated the bass soooo much. Read about it afterwards and find out he died tragically young so I feel kind of bad but it ruined the album for me, the other two were playing decent enough and he was just stomping across it like somebody had let a toddler loose with an instrument. Apparently its really good though so shows what I know

Jazz works well as background music, but it really shines when you pay close attention to everything it’s doing. Close your eyes and listen to every note. How the instruments are playing with and against each other. It feels so simple yet there’s a lot going on and it feels so wonderfully complex

Perfecte zondagplaat, waarmee ik wil zeggen: jazz die gemakkelijk naar binnen glijdt voor op de achtergrond. Goed baswerk.

This was loungey, piano-based jazz music. It was relaxing to listen to and neutral as background noise. The style was also familiar, so felt more comforting in a way.

It’s nothing against the album, it’s nice, I just can’t abide this type of Jazz as an active listening experience

Evans has a beautifully light touch on the Piano - wonderfully understated. LaFaro's bass is incredible here too. I understand that the label rushed out this release containing the most bass-forward tracks from the session after his death; tragic loss for jazz, but really made this album something special.

Bill Evans is solid. He may not be as iconoclastic as Monk. But he’s no schlub.

A great performance, if a bit of an odd pick for the ONLY record on the list from 1961. The interplay between the 3 musicians is immaculate. There's a lot of interesting stuff to hold your attention within this relatively simple texture -- this is only "background" music if you let it be.

A nice relaxing jazz albums, good cafe jazz. Great performing especially the piano and drums.
A nice listen this morning.

A lovely display of musicianship here. On the surface it sounds like tame background noise you'd enjoy to while milling about a dimly lit restaurant, but it really pulled me in the longer I listened. Calming yet strangely entrapping, like slowly pooling molasses to the ears. I also find it immensely humanising how strangers' clinking of dinnerware and chattering has been frozen in time and forever immortalised on this record :)

Very technically admirable - but I feel cool jazz just lacks a certain punch. It just doesn't grab me.