Artist	Song
Bill Evans	Epilogue (0.38)
Bill Evans	Peace Piece ((6.37)
Lennie Tristano	Requiem (4.53)
Jan Johansson	Prsmdragarnas Ssng Pe Volga (3.41)
Brad Mehldau	Paranoid Android (9.23)
Michel Petrucciani	'Round About Midnight (10.12)
Denny Zeitlin	Love For Sale (6.08)
Andrew Hill	Focus (0.53)
Hampton Hawes	Blue In Green (5.25)
Oscar Peterson	Waltz For Debby (5.54)
Tete Montoliu	Oleo (3.24)
Ahmad Jamal	On Green Dolphin Street (3.20)
Phineas Newborn Jnr	Dahoud (4.38)
Satoko Fujii	Moonlight/Sola (9.00)

Comment:

The Mix starts in the same fashion as the wonderful 'Everybody Digs Bill Evans' album with the short Epilogue. It than moves to another piece on the same album 'Peace Piece' which along side 'Miles(tones)' was one of the first examples of 'Modal' Jazz. Both Tunes are solo piano and so is Lennie Tristano's Requiem. A haunting piece, that sets the tone of the album. Things pick up on the fourth track, with the upbeat version of
Prsmdragarnas Ssng Pe Volga which happens to be the soviet union theme tune. Followed by Brad Mehldau's solo piano version of the Radiohead tune 'Paranoid Android'. After Brad we have the smallest pianist ever playing Thelonious Monk's great tune 'Round about Midnight', this version of it is played on the solo piano, A large sound for a man named 'Mike Pee' by the great Bill Evans. This tune is followed by an up tempo piano solo of Love For Sale, Denny shows us that you can have two careers at the same time, due to the fact that apart from being a Jazz Musician he is a physiatrist. Next we have a brief but delightful piano solo by Andrew Hill, the great advanced-bop pianist. Hampton Hawes is next with a great version of the emotional 'Blue in Green' which was actually written by Bill Evans not Miles Davis. Another Bill Evans tune follows 'Waltz For Debby, but this time it's performed by another giant of the piano Oscar Peterson. Tete Montoliu's version of Sonny Rollin's 'Oleo' follows and it's played brilliantly, Tete was one of the finest European Jazz Pianists. Phineas Newborn Jnr, has sometimes been classified as the 'modern' art tatum, due to his impeccable technique, well you can hear this technique on his magnificant version of the immortal Clifford Brown's 'Dahoud'. The album ends with the touching duet between Japan's finest pianist, Satoko Fujii and the modern bass living legend Mark Dresser. The song leaves the listener wanting more, and feeling completed.

The length of the CD is 73.94 minutes, so it just makes it under the standard 74 minute mark for a normal CD.

Well there it is, the first mix of many. This one concentrating on the piano as a jazz instrument.

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