Sunday At The Village Vanguard
by Bill Evans Trio

Sunday At The Village Vanguard by Bill Evans Trio
(Live album)
Year: 1961
Release date: 1961-10-00
Overall rank: 1,648th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 206 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 5 albums of 1961 (3rd)
Award Top albums of of the 1960s (160th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,648th)

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Bill Evans Trio bestography

Sunday At The Village Vanguard is ranked 2nd best out of 40 albums by Bill Evans on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Bill Evans is Waltz For Debby which is ranked number 1376 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,255.

Bill Evans Trio album bestography « Higher ranked (1,376th)
Waltz For Debby
This album (1,648th)
Sunday At The Village Vanguard
Lower ranked (3,733rd) »
Portrait In Jazz

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  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Sunday At The Village Vanguard rankings summary
Overall rank: 1,648th | 1960s rank: 160th | 1961 rank: 3rd  Overall chart history
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Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 206 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.2/100, a mean average of 77.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.1.


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90/100
Stunning, although I'm pretty sure I hear someone hearing a sandwich. (Edited)
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95/100
Some of my favorite piano playing. Bill Evans manages to make complex harmony sound like an easygoing pop melody. (Edited)
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60/100
From 01/30/2021 14:19 | #265324
easy listening jazz. smooth pianist (Edited)
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80/100
From 11/17/2020 12:30 | #260944
Maravilha de piano!!
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65/100
From 10/18/2020 23:56 | #259418
65/100

Best track: Gloria's Step
Worst track: All of You
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85/100
From 01/08/2018 00:17 | #204950
Nice. Live is everything. Classic. Jazz 101.
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80/100
Recorded the same night as, waltz for Debby. It's lovely stuff, but haunted by the fact that bass player Scott Lefaro would sadly pass away within two weeks of this show. (Edited)
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Fantastic old-school jazz album. Loved it the very first time I heard it. Pity music isn't made like this any more. (Edited)
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From 09/11/2014 09:08 | #121697
I enjoyed this very much. Definitely up there with "everbody digs".
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Rating:  
100/100
God on earth. Debussy, Ravel, Ellington..all is in Evans and Evans is in heaven. The best pianist of all time and not only in jazz. Gould, Rubinstein, Pollini, Horowitz..... yes, of course, but Bill Evans forever.

N.- Evans, LaFaro and Motian are THE TRIO. (Edited)
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