Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Too snooze-fest for me

Jazz is the equivalent to musical mental illness.

Sunday at the Village Vanguard offers a challenging listening experience. The album often feels disjointed, with each musician seemingly playing a different tune, resulting in a chaotic and discordant atmosphere. The bassist sounding like they are tuning up, the drummer's erratic rhythm sounding like a rainmaker, and the piano playing that resembles hotel lobby music left me feeling disoriented and disconnected from the music. There is a lack of cohesion and structure, making it difficult to engage with the performance on a deeper level. While some may appreciate the avant-garde nature of the album and its experimental approach to jazz, I found it frustrating and inaccessible. Tracks like Gloria's Step and Alice in Wonderland exemplify this disjointedness, with some moments of beauty overshadowed by moments of confusion. Overall, Sunday at the Village Vanguard may appeal to those with a penchant for avant-garde jazz, but for me, it feels like an exercise in musical chaos rather than a cohesive artistic statement. NUMBER OF BANGERS - 0 STAND OUT TRACK - None

0.5/5

first listen. not my thing.

Dull background music.

Evidently, we’re not old enough to like jazz yet. That was an hour and eight minutes of one song. (There are actually three songs on the album twice, which leads us to think there aren’t enough good jazz songs so they had to repeat a few of them.) The album is good background music during martinis and dinner at a classy restaurant. The drinks and dinner brought it up to (1.2*s)

Jazz, trio, instrumental, jam, solo on solo, the bass is killing me, not catching me. puh - not at all...

This album might be alright if you're 85+ years old or currently standing in an elevator. Listening to a recording of live, improvisational jazz will never stand up to being there in person so a lot is already lost there. This type of playing takes a lot of focus, adaptation, and listening on the musicians' parts so I'll give it that. I did like that there were no horns and the bass was a star player at parts throughout. However, this was just too boring and repetitive for me. Meh 1.5.

Ok Daddio...I'm truly perplexed. A guy strumming a rubberband, raw spaghetti on cymbals, and Bill hitting his piano with a shoe. What a complete discombobulated mess. Seemed like each guy was off just doing their own thing. I doubt the audience even knew there were multiple takes on some songs. Hard pass

I guess it can be nice to hear one of these songs while relaxing every now and then. But to hear multiple songs and even multiple takes is so completely redundant an unnecessary. Surprisingly, I wasn't there in 1961 but I'm not sure what the crowd sees in this. Evidently this is peak jazz? It's entirely possible I just listened to the same song 6-10 times in a row. I'm not sure I would have noticed a difference if any of these songs was put on repeat and someone told me I listened to this album. The first bass solo is somewhat refreshing and cool I guess? After that its all just the same baloney for an hour. 0.10 stars

Nah

Nope

Nope

hard going-- not a jazz fan and this seems like the worst type to me.

Jazz like this has a place but it's not in my ears

Not all jazz is good jazz. Too uncohesive for me.

Piano y poco más instrumentos para interpretar canciones instrumentales sin que destaquen especialmente. Para muy de los que les guste el estilo

Jazz… ugh

Quite a miserable listening experience. It sounds like Jazz x Jazz for Jazz musicians. Continuous atonal wankery for the sake of wankery. No structure, no interesting drum-work, just constant piano and bass solos. And it doesnt go anywhere. Even some of the more obnoxious albums on here had something going. I could, for instance, recommend the Klaxons to someone that likes pop rock, or Neneh Cherry to someone who longs for 80s pop (I consider both these albums to be the worst albums I have heard in my life, quite frankly), but this? I suppose, as I said in the beginning, it might be interesting to Jazz musicians, but its unlistanable to 99.9% mortals, and its not even entertaining as a "wowza groundbreaking!" album either.

Just not my preferred style of music.

They say that, in jazz, the notes you don't play are the important ones. This is definitely true, as the bass player here elected not to play any notes that weren't a little bit sharp.

Livealbum igjen

Elevator Music

I'm sure these guys are great but I almost fell asleep at the wheel listening to this album. One star for safety

Maybe it just is not for me

Too similar to each others

Possibly the most painful jazz album I’ve had to sit through thus far. I’m sorry, I just don’t get it. It’s so boring.

This is the first album I gave up on. Really not a fan of jazz.

so bad

Good background music. Boring otherwise

Nice idea, let's get one of the greatest bass player (at the time) and let him play against the rhythm of other members. Interesting concept, full steam ahead! For some reason this album reminded me of a video of Pablo Picasso I have seen, where he was painting a bird in a childish way. We all know he is great and extremely talented, so he can now do whatever he wants, it will all amuse us anyway, doesn't matter how stupid it is. Well, Bill Evans Trio members were great and very talented, and together they came up with this unlistenable album, that is giving me heart palpitations from all the wrong reasons. Great milestone in history, there are no rules in music anymore, hurray!

Pish

I'm not a jazz fan. As far as I'm concerned this is one long song with no melody or changes.

Just not my jam

Dull as hell

Not a Jazz head - tolerated this

I mean, do I really have to say why this is a classic?

Awful

Imagine being at the club in NYC while the Bill Evans Trio is belting out this classic 🎶 you'd get some of the best sleep of your life right in that club 😴

Nice piano, but I didn't like the drumming or bass. The worst part is the mix which has too much high end and all of the most annoying sounds are far too present. At one point all i could hear was a cymbal making constant noise.

Not a fan of jazz noodling. Especially jazz piano noodling. Was completely inoffensive is about the most complimentary thing I can say about this.

Refused to listen. Turned to the Surrey cricket ball-by-ball feed instead.

Not my thing.

Annoin mahdollisuuden neljän puolikkaan biisin verran. Ei muuta sitä tosiasiaa, että tämä on popmusiikin banaalein, itsetiedostavin ja rahvaan mukahumoristisin muoto.

Look, I’m not the biggest jazz fan, but even relative to the genre this feels very boring.

I'm sure it's good, but maybe I just don't like jazz?

I got bored instantly, it's just very repetitive. No vocals. Literally sounds like elevator music. Sounds like it would play as background music in a curious George episode. If you are going to make music with no vocals, you have to make the instrumentals sound interesting showing that there is no need for vocals or lyrics.

Gloria's Step 2 - 2 stars My Man's Gone Now - 3 stars Solar - 1 star Alice in Wonderland 2 - 1 star All of you 2 - 1 star Jade Visions 2 - 2 stars Gloria's Step 3 - 1 star Alice in Wonderland 1 - 1 star All of you 3 - 1 star Jade Visions 1 - 2 stars

3,8 I don't care for this album. Musically impressive but just no

Boring

Not for me. First one I couldn't make it through the entire album. Just a no for me.

mellow bass and piano solos aren't my thing. 2/5 for the music. 1/5 because the random click / door opening / murmuring on the album kept scaring the shit of out of me. home invader?! party in my front yard?! someone sneaking up behind me?! recommended for: live music in an upscale department store

Agh it is hard to find words, I just don't care about this tinkling kind of jazz. It just irritates me

I hate jazz so much.

kakuhka

Boring easy listening jazz. Not my cup of tea at all

glad apple let me know this was a live album.

I don't like no-words songs

Really shit.

Jazz ...

Serieuze Jazz. Leuk voor een paar minuutjes, maar daarna haak snel af. *

I don't like jazz

It might be a great Jazz record. But's it Jazz

no

Look we all know I’d have given this a one whether I’d listened or not

Jazz piano, no thanks

Nice. What a avant garde way of doing things, stick the same song on twice in a row and see if you can drive your audience insane. Spaz jazz.

Zzzz...boring!

Ik heb het geprobeerd.....2,5 nummer lang.....en toen begon het Jazz-eczeem weer op te spelen in mijn nek.

I just can't be doing with this type of jazz. It's annoying

Couldnt do it - piano based jazz just not my thing I guess

neeeeeeeeein - 1

Nej

not my thing

killed my mood for today, wtf elevator music. Not outside of an elevator plz!

Live Album... und dann auch noch Free Jazz oder was? Ich versteh die Art von Musik einfach nicht. Die Musiker spielen so ein bisschen vor sich hin und manchmal fängt einer (oder sogar mehrere) an, hektisch Töne aneinander zu reihen, die nicht sonderlich harmonisch zueinander wirken, teilweise sicherlich bewusst disharmonisch sind und nicht in einem ersichtlichen Zusammenhang zu den restlichen Musikern stehen. Wieso? Ist es eine Herausforderung so zu spielen? Bestimmt! Obwohl es genauso gut auch willkürlich sein könnte. Ich höre es ja nur ein einziges mal. Ist es schön zu hören? Für mich definitiv nicht. Grausig! Keine harmonischen Melodien! Kein erkennbares Zusammenspiel! Was soll das? Und dann klatschen die Schafe im Publikum aus ihrem Herdentrieb am Ende der Performance, weil sie von irgend jemanden gehört haben, dass die Musik sehr gut sei. Damit verspielt sich das Album die letzten Armutspunkte.

I am watching you.