AUDIO NOTES

Bill Evans

Albums

Waltz for Debby (1962) 1 listen Kind of Blue (1959) 1 listen

Listening notes

Waltz for Debby (1962) Bill Evans Trio
VPI Cliffwood • Grado Stylus Red4 • Parks Audio Budgie • AE 45 monos

Bill Evans’ Waltz for Debby on my 180g purple vinyl, and it sounds goddamn glorious with the new stylus.

Kind of Blue (1959) Miles Davis

Some records ask to be judged. Some ask to be decoded. Kind of Blue does neither. It waits. Listening again—now, with winter settled in and a new SET amp warming the room—the album doesn’t feel like a monument so much as a destination. It is calm without being passive. Spacious without being empty. Nothing here hurries, yet nothing drags. There are no fast tunes, no technical gauntlets thrown down. And still, the …

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