Sunday at the Village Vanguard

This is the jazz I can handle … no dying birds to be found here. Amazing jamming with this trio, if you can handle that sort of thing … made me look forward to my next ride in an elevator.

Decent but there’s a few textures to the instruments I don’t like. Also don’t like the live element of background noise; it was more off-putting than anything to me.

I just can’t get into Jazz. But I’m sure it’s good if you like this sort of thing.

Very enjoyable.

One of my all time faves! A pleasure to listen to it again as the sun sets.

Dear lord this is classy. First live album I experience where the ambience isn't in the crowd's cheers, but in the wine glasses clanking and other such subtleties. Those are the details that TRANSPORT you to the Village Vanguard, to performances where Scott LaFaro is shredding pure heat on bass. Love it!

it was great, however for me personally intense jazz like this is good when it's really diverse one after another. if it's just a queue of songs that sound well enough similar and aren't really that different from one another, it's hard to listen to more than 3 pieces like this

I don’t listen to instrumental music whatsoever so this ends up being boring to me.

Slow, kind of boring jazz. Inoffensive. Don’t need to hear again.

Favorite track(s): Gloria's Step, My Man's Gone Now

Great. Just 👌

De klassieke restaurant setting, waarbij de piano wat dominant is. Hierdoor zakt het wat naar de achtergrond. Als de bas wat meer naar voren komt, komt het geheel ook wat meer naar voren. Eigenlijk jammer dat het de aandacht niet altijd weet te behouden, want de muziek is zeer luisterwaardig.

I could do without all the extended bass solos, in all honesty some of them sound like a kid just plucking away. I'm convinced the guy was just going to town and the rest of the trio were trying to make sense of what's happening.
Albums like this are why I'm not a jazz guy. Clearly talented musicians but it just never gets off the "we are kicking around ideas to see what sticks" stage for me.

Welcome to Jazz Club.

However, I never feel smart enough for Jazz. Like going to a museum and even though you enjoyed the visit, you spent a lot of time looking at the other visitors and thinking "Are they understanding this better than me?"

Still, this doo-be-dooed, rat-a-tat-tatted and plinkity-plonked with the best of them.

Lovely album, very relaxing.

Sublime. Incredible interplay between the trio. Scott LaFaro's bass is ridiculous, just soaring, light as a feather. Feel amazed that I'd never heard this before - an absolute treat.

Bass goes dum da dum dum

I'm sure this is perfectly good jazz if you're into this sort of thing.

This is the most mundane music ever. There's nothing interesting about it at all. I wouldn't want this even playing in an elevator. There is nothing cool or special about this album. It's just some instruments being played in the simplest way possible. I wish I could like this, but I just don't at all.

𝘚𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘝𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘝𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘥 is a beautifully intimate live document, but its age shows in the recording quality, and the trio format naturally leaves a lot of open space. The interplay between piano, bass and drums is subtle and refined, yet for someone who gravitates toward jazz with horns, the absence of saxophone or trumpet can make the music feel a bit too soft or restrained. It’s an important performance and a graceful listen, just not fully engaging if piano-trio jazz doesn’t connect on a deeper level.