Bill Evans

4 1/2 STARS DOWNBEAT MGAZINE

INCLUDES 3 BONUS TRACKS

This edition presents Bill Evans’ debut album as a leader, "New Jazz Conceptions" (Riverside RLP-12-223), in its entirety, including an alternate version of “No Cover, No Minimum” that completes the session. The LP primarily showcases Evans in a trio format, but also contains three solo piano tracks, one of which is Evans’ earliest recording ever of his legendary composition “Waltz for Debby”.

As a bonus, a couple of rare sessions from the same period, which feature Evans as a sideman on sessions for guitarists Dick García and Joe Puma.

PERSONNEL:

BILL EVANS, piano
TEDDY KOTICK, bass
PAUL MOTIAN, drums

New York, September 18 & 27, 1956.
Tracks 9-11 are unaccompanied piano recordings.

(*) BONUS TRACKS:

[13-15]: Bill Evans (p), Dick García (g), Jerry Bruno (b), Camille Morin (d).
New York, 1955.

[16-18]: Bill Evans (p), Eddie Costa (vib), Joe Puma (g), Oscar Pettiford (b),
Paul Motian (d). New York, late summer 1957.

INCLUDES 12-PAGE BOOKLET

TRACKS:

01. I LOVE YOU
02. FIVE
03. CONCEPTION
04. EASY LIVING
05. DISPLACEMENT
06. SPEAK LOW
07. OUR DELIGHT
08. NO COVER, NO MINIMUM
09. I GOT IT BAD AND THAT AIN’T GOOD
10. WALTZ FOR DEBBY
11. MY ROMANCE
12. NO COVER, NO MINIMUM [alternate version]
13. KIMONA MY HOUSE (*)
14. LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE (*)
15. EV’RY NIGHT ABOUT THIS TIME (*)
16. I GOT IT BAD AND THAT AIN’T GOOD (*)
17. MOTHER OF EARL (*)
18. INDIAN SUMMER (*)

TOTAL TIME: 77:56 Min.