The Bill Evans Trio: Explorations LTD

LP Record Product information: Recorded on 2 February 1961, Explorations was Bill Evans' fourth LP as a leader and the second studio album from the pianist's legendary trio with Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian. Their first recording together was the studio album Portrait in Jazz, made on 28 December 1959, which marked Evans' third album as a leader following New Jazz Conceptions (1956) and Everybody Digs Bill Evans (1958). The Evans-LaFaro-Motian trio reached its peak during a club recording on 25 June 1961 at the Village Vanguard in New York. LaFaro died in a car accident just ten days later, at the age of 25. Six tracks from the album Portrait in Jazz (featuring the same trio) are added here as a bonus.