SUNDAY AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD

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"Sunday at the Village Vanguard" is a live album by jazz pianist and composer Bill Evans and his trio consisting of Evans, bassist Scott LaFaro, and drummer Paul Motian. Released in 1961, the album is regularly ranked among the best live jazz recordings of all time. It was drawn from material recorded on June 25, 1961, at the Village Vanguard in New York. The trio played five sets – two in the afternoon and three in the evening – each consisting of four or five numbers and lasting about half an hour. This was the last performance of the Bill Evans Trio with bassist Scott LaFaro, who was killed in a car accident eleven days after the recording. Since 1992, this album and its successor "Waltz for Debby" have received a crown in all nine editions of the Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings.