Most beautiful jazz ballad ever played......

[JGlacken]

Gene Ammons-My Romance-Rogers and Hart

 

[assessor43]

Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil
Infant Eyes

 

[assessor43]

Bill Evans - Emily

 

[HughP3]

Thanks to all who are contributing on this thread. I am not a huge jazz fan—prefering melodic songs I can follow. Really improvisational tracks often leave me scratching my head thinking “play something you know” and “go practice somewhere else.”

But well recorded ballads are a favorite, and jazz ballads can really touch the soul. I look forward to listening to all the cuts mentioned here.

A friend of mine told me about this track, inspirational and fantastic recording.

 

[LL21]

Oscar was a big fan of Bill Evans and I believe Bill had tremendous respect for Oscar as well.

Interesting!

 

[APP]

Good musicians like good musicians. John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins were great friends just as Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell

 

[Joe Whip]

Or Oscar Peterson and Art Tatum.

 

[daytona600]

 

[APP]

A bit early but then you may all like the post a month from now

 

[APP]

i'm a Bill Evans "peace piece" guy myself. unique, ethereal.

and improvised on the spot.

That song was the beginning of the whole modal period in jazz. Without it no Kind Of Blue.

 

[APP]

Just discovered this at the Sound Liaison sale. This girl can really play the trumpet. And isn't St. James the first of all ballads?

 

[jazdoc]

 

[marslo]

One of my favourites jazz ballads - Chet with Bill : Alone together.

 

[Berta]

My favorite

 

[APP]

My favorite

That one is hard to beat. Coltrane when playing ballads really stock to the original melody, even more so than Dexter and Rollins.

 

[Robert Young]

That one is hard to beat. Coltrane when playing ballads really stock to the original melody, even more so than Dexter and Rollins.

Agree all around...but just last night I was listening to Bill Evans' Waltz for Debby and got all weepy 'n' shit. What a masterpiece. At this point in Covid in NYC, I'm surviving on Miles, Coltrane, Monk, Powell, and Evans, along with copious amounts of Berkshire Mountain Distillery gin.

 

[APP]

Or Oscar Peterson and Art Tatum.

Or Dexter and Johnny Griffin

 

[RDSChicago]

LOVE ALL the Jazz Ballads listed; however, for me, there is only one "ring" to rule them all..

Which piece did you list? The link is broken.

 

[musicfirst1]

The amazing Flamenco Sketches: first take on Kind of Blue (usually track 5).

 

[APP]

how about ?;