Bill Evans DVD - "The Oslo Concerts"

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From today's New York Times:

Bill Evans led a handful of trios throughout his career, each one a vehicle for his precisely fluttering pianism. A new DVD, “The Oslo Concerts,” available from Shanachie on Jan. 30, documents a pair of performances nearly 15 years apart, and the contrast is striking. The first, with the bassist Eddie Gomez and the drummer Alex Riel, takes place at the Munch Museum in October 1966. It’s a chiming, almost somber performance, right down to the poker faces in the Norwegian audience. (Four of the seven songs from the concert can be found on YouTube.) The second concert dates from August 1980, when Mr. Evans performed a set at the Molde Jazz Festival with an even better trio, featuring Marc Johnson on bass and Joe La Barbera on drums. But Mr. Evans’s style had changed by then, with a rhythmic feel more suggestive of a surge than a swell. He prefaces “Nardis,” which in 1966 was a floating mystery, with some startlingly emphatic arabesques. It’s tempting to view the performance as a last gasp — a month later, Mr. Evans would be gone — but as a postconcert interview illuminates, it was just one stop along the road.

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1. Well, I was excited.

But WIMR and ProfessorGAC probably already own it.

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2. youtube samples

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bill+evans+oslo