Bill Evans

• LIMITED EDITION

• SPECIAL SIX-PANEL DIGIPACK

• INCLUDES 5 BONUS TRACKS

This release presents the complete original Bill Evans album Interplay (Riverside RLP9445). The dates showcased the pianist with a number of great players, including trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, guitarist Jim Hall, bassist Percy Heath, and drummer Philly Joe Jones. Evans and Freddie Hubbard had both participated on Oliver Nelson’s wonderful 1961 LP The Blues and the Abstract Truth, and in April of 1962 they would both play on the Benny Golson LP Pop + Jazz = Swing. Interplay marked their third and final recorded collaboration.

The only known alternate take from the sessions, as well as a complete date taped the following month with a similar formation (but with saxophonist Zoot Sims in place of Hubbard), have been added as a bonus.

PERSONNEL:

• BILL EVANS, piano
• FREDDIE HUBBARD, trumpet
• JIM HALL, guitar
• PERCY HEATH, bass
• PHILLY JOE JONES, drums

Nola Penthouse Studio, New York, July 16 & 17, 1962.

• (*) BONUS TRACKS:
• Same personnel as above except Zoot Sims (tenor sax) replaces Hubbard & Ron Carter (bass) replaces Heath. Nola Penthouse Studio.
• New York, August 21, 1962.

TRACKS:

• 01. You and the Night and the Music
• 02. When You Wish Upon a Star
• 03. I ’ll Never Smile Again
• 04. Interplay
• 05. You Go to My Head
• 06. Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams
• 07. I ’ll Never Smile Again [alt tk]
• 08. Loose Bloose (*)
• 09. Time Remembered (*)
• 10. Funkallero (*)
• 11. Fudgesickle Built for Four (*)
• 12. Loose Bloose [alt tk] (*)

• TOTAL TIME: 75:36 Min.