Plus, the combination of piano, guitar, and Sims' delicate tone made for very nice timbres. Everybody else floats over the groove like a pillow fort built on cinderblocks. The resulting effect, perhaps an exaggeration, is that the bass and drums swing harder than anybody else in the band. Jim Hall, who makes appearances on other Bill Evans albums, plays guitar. Playing the tenor sax was the soft-spoken Zoot Sims, who I admit to having little knowledge of. What made the mix all the more interesting was the obvious contrast between the rhythm section and the rest of the band. It came as no surprise from the start of track 1, "Loose Bloose," that the groove created between bass and drums swung significantly stronger than the more airy atmosphere usually created in Bill's more usual rhythm sections. ![]() ![]() The appearance of Philly Joe Jones on drums wouldn't be a first for Evans. This was the first album I'd come across where Bill Evans was playing with the bassist Ron Carter, who I'd known primarily through his work with Miles Davis' second great quartet as well as on other quintessential albums of the 60's. What originally drew me to the obscure Bill Evans album known as "Loose Blues" was primarily the lineup.
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