Turn Out the Stars: The Final Village Vanguard Recordings

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars and stated "Evans sounded quite energized during his last year, Johnson was developing quickly as both an accompanist and a soloist, and the interplay by the trio members (with subtle support from LaBarbera) sometimes bordered on the telepathic. The playing throughout these consistently inventive performances ranks up there with the Evans-Scott LaFaro-Paul Motian trio of 20 years earlier".

Track listing

Disc One

1. "Bill's Hit Tune" - 7:47
2. "Nardis" (Miles Davis) - 15:37
3. "If You Could See Me Now" (Tadd Dameron, Carl Sigman) - 5:42
4. "The Two Lonely People" (Evans, Carol Hall) - 7:10
5. "Laurie" - 6:32
6. "My Romance" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 7:47
7. "Tiffany" - 5:41
8. "Like Someone in Love" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 7:34
9. "Letter to Evan" - 5:22

Disc Two

1. "Days of Wine and Roses " (Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer) - 8:59
2. "Emily" (Johnny Mandel, Johnny Mercer) - 4:09
3. "My Foolish Heart" (Ned Washington, Victor Young) - 4:10
4. "Nardis" (Davis) - 16:17
5. "Yet Ne'er Broken" - 6:36
6. "Quiet Now" (Denny Zeitlin) - 5:11
7. "But Not for Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 7:55
8. "Spring Is Here" (Hart, Rodgers) - 4:21
9. "Autumn Leaves" (Joseph Kosma, Jacques Prévert, Johnny Mercer) - 5:05

Disc Three

1. "Your Story" - 3:58
2. "Re: Person I Knew" - 4:32
3. "Polka Dots and Moonbeams (Burke, Van Heusen) - 6:24
4. "The Two Lonely People" (Evans, Hall) - 7:08
5. "Theme from M*A*S*H" (Mike Altman, Johnny Mandel) - 4:07
6. "Tiffany" - 5:25
7. "Turn Out the Stars" - 6:21
8. "Laurie"- 6:23
9. "My Romance" (Hart, Rodgers) - 8:19
10. "Knit for Mary F." - 6:13
11. " Midnight Mood" (Ben Raleigh, Joe Zawinul) - 5:50
12. "Time Remembered" - 5:37

Disc Four

1. "Days of Wine and Roses" (Mancini, Mercer) - 8:49
2. "Up With the Lark" (Jerome Kern, Leo Robin) - 5:13
3. "Nardis" (Davis) - 15:02
4. "Your Story" - 3:54
5. "Yet Ne'er Broken" - 6:48
6. "If You Could See Me Now" (Dameron, Sigman) - 6:18
7. "Bill's Hit Tune"- 7:49
8. "Tiffany" - 4:56
9. "In Your Own Sweet Way" (Dave Brubeck) - 9:57

Disc Five

1. "I Do It for Your Love" (Paul Simon) - 5:16
2. "Five" - 4:07
3. "Polka Dots and Moonbeams" (Burke, Van Heusen) - 5:58
4. "Bill's Hit Tune" - 8:53
5. "Turn Out the Stars" - 5:53
6. "Days of Wine and Roses" (Mancini, Mercer) - 7:33
7. "But Not for Me" (Gershwin, Gershwin) - 6:57
8. "Knit for Mary F." - 6:25
9. "Like Someone in Love" (Burke, Van Heusen) - 7:33
10. "Quiet Now" (Zeitlin) - 5:13

Disc Six

1. "Emily" (Mandel, Mercer) - 4:16
2. "I Do It for Your Love"(Simon) - 5:36
3. "Nardis" (Davis) - 15:54
4. "Knit for Mary F." - 6:01
5. "Like Someone in Love" (Burke, Van Heusen) - 6:21
6. "Letter to Evan" - 6:55
7. "Minha (All Mine)" (Francis Hime, Ruy Guerra) - 3:17
8. "A Sleepin' Bee" (Harold Arlen, Truman Capote) - 4:23
9. "My Romance/Five" (Hart, Rodgers/Evans) - 10:09

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