{"id":27407,"date":"2025-04-02T10:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T09:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=27407"},"modified":"2025-04-02T10:56:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T09:56:12","slug":"music-nirvana-herbie-mann-the-bill-evans-trio-1964","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=27407","title":{"rendered":"MUSiC: Nirvana, Herbie Mann &amp; The Bill Evans Trio, 1964"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"318\" height=\"313\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_5836-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27405\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_5836-1.jpg 318w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_5836-1-300x295.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"155\" height=\"30\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/stars_08_four-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27406\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/stars_08_four-1.jpg 155w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/stars_08_four-1-150x30.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BILL\u2019S HEAVY METAL BALLADS ALBUM!?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In terms of material and performances this should\u2019ve been a five star recording. And in terms of my enjoyment of the music, it <em>very nearly<\/em> is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Butt\u2026 and it is, sadly, a rather large butt\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sound quality is an issue. The mic\u2019 on Bill Evans\u2019 piano is either damaged, too close, or something similar (simply overloading on signal?), as there\u2019s a degree of distortion on all the piano that is just bizarre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Herbie\u2019s flute and Chuck\u2019s bass are well enough recorded. But Paul Motion\u2019s drums are, on occasion, rather thin and distant. Not a good day for the studio engineers, this one!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, alas\u2026 oh, woe is me. Or rather woe is all of us. Because, as already mentioned, this is a great date in terms of personnel and material. The performances are good. Possibly very good? But they\u2019re definitely marred by the audio issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most particularly the distorted piano.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m actually surprised by two things; that it was released at all. And that, in our \u2018fix it in the mix\u2019 age of digital wizardry, it hasn\u2019t been cleaned up. I\u2019m sure software exists nowadays that could significantly improve the sound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite this, it still scores relatively high, for me. Because, whilst the distortion is an annoyance, the overall vibe of the album is terrific. This really comes close to Nirvana. I hope one day someone dies the decent thing, and restores the piano to a more pure pristine sound. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, all in all, an oddity. A great album, sadly  spoiled somewhat by a technical issue. But nevertheless worth having and enjoying. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BILL\u2019S HEAVY METAL BALLADS ALBUM!? In terms of material and performances this should\u2019ve been a five star recording. And in terms of my enjoyment of the music, it very nearly is. Butt\u2026 and it is, sadly, a rather large butt\u2026 Sound quality is an issue. The mic\u2019 on Bill Evans\u2019 piano is either damaged, too &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=27407\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MUSiC: Nirvana, Herbie Mann &amp; The Bill Evans Trio, 1964&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-783","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27407"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27408,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27407\/revisions\/27408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}