Sweet and Lovely (Bill Evans Trio)
Context
Last track on side B of Explorations (Riverside, 1961), recorded at Bell Sound with LaFaro and Motian. The record won the Billboard poll for best piano album of 1961.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Cool (Birth of the Cool), Modal. Among the origins and influences of Cool: Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's), Bossa nova, jazz samba.