I’ve been around a long time and I listen to music just about every day of this life. Always looking for new music and I find it often. You always tend to go through phases when there’s a whole wide world of music to get to. I’m always in a phase of some sort and that said, I have lots of musical heroes and lots of favorites, but inexplicably, when putting on a record to either read by, cook or putz around the house, through the years, I’ll say I go to Bill Evans probably more than anybody. Is he my favorite of all time? No, but whatever it is he does, it completely agrees with me & my existence.
Billie, Frank, Coltrane, Winwood, Nancy Wilson, early Peter, Paul and Mary (magnificent sounding records, by the way) Elvis, 60’s Blue Note, Beatles, Kurt Elling- tons more, all stuff I’ve consistently gone back to, yet I’m always looking for a better remastering of anything Bill Evans.
There’s no explaining it.