
Bill Evans and Marian McPartland: The Art of Dialogue and the Secrets of Harmony
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Sixty years after its release, the soundtrack recorded by the Vince Guaraldi Trio for the animated Peanuts special has officially made history.

By the fall of 1956, Miles Davis already had his deal with Columbia in hand.

There are two video documents in which Bill Evans talks, at length and without haste, about the way he worked.

There are records that do not merely capture the spirit of their time, but instead choose to inhabit the exact borderline between what jazz has been and what it could become.

There are moments in jazz history when an artist, having helped define the rules of a genre, decides those same rules have become a cage.

There are interviews that are born simply to fill a space and others that are born to safeguard a secret, or at least to try and approach the mystery of artistic creation.

This album is something masterful, undoubtedly to be counted among the masterpieces of jazz.

Some albums never need to raise their voice to be remembered.

Somethin’ Else is an album by Julian “Cannonball” Adderley, recorded on March 9, 1958 at Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, New Jersey, and released by Blue Note Records later that same year.