Bill Evans

4 1/2 DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE

This edition presents the complete 1958/59 Winter trio sessions by Bill Evans. Included is the LP Everybody Digs Bill Evans, in its entirety. It was Evans' second studio album recorded under his own name (it was made more than two years after his debut LP, titled New Jazz Conceptions). Also here is the complete trio studio session that immediately follows this album in the pianist's discography. The date features Philly Joe Jones again on drums.

PERSONNEL:

[1-10] BILL EVANS (p), SAM JONES (b), PHILLY JOE JONES (d)
Tracks 3, 5, 7 & 10 are unaccompanied piano solos.
New York, December 15, 1958.

[11-16] BILL EVANS (p), PAUL CHAMBERS (b), PHILLY JOE JONES (d).
New York, January 19, 1959.

INCLUDES 12-PAGE BOOKLET

TRACKS:

01. Minority
02. Young And Foolish
03. Lucky To Be Me
04. Night And Day
05. Epilogue
06. Tenderly
07. Peace Piece
08. What Is There To Say?
09. Oleo
10. Epilogue
11. You And The Night And The Music
12. How Am I To Know?
13. Woody'n You (Take 1)
14. Woody'n You (Take 2)
15. My Heart Stood Still
16. On Green Dolphin Street

Total Time: 78:46

“Not everybody as the album cover claims, but certainly an ever-enlarging audience is digging Evans and with good reason. He is an authoritative pianist with a superb sense of melodic and harmonic invention. His kind of lyrical rummaging about, which so often ends in blind alleys with lesser pianists, is brought off by Evans' remarkable capacity for working out large melodic structures that hang together as though they had been presketched on paper. Small wonder that the men who work with Evans offer the highest praise for him; familiarity with his work breeds nothing but respect.”- (Richard B. Hadlock)