Bill Evans

• INCLUDES 6 BONUS TRACKS

• 12-PAGE BOOKLET

• 4 1/2 DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE

This release contains 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”.

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

PERSONNEL:

• Bill Evans - (piano)
• Teddy Kotick - (bass)
• Paul Motian - (drums)

New York, September 18 & 27, 1956.

• (*) 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.

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 (*)