The Bill Evans Album

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The Bill Evans Album
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Studio album by
Bill Evans
ReleasedEnd of August/early September 1971[1]
RecordedMay 11–12, 17, 19-20 and June 9, 1971
StudioCBS 30th Street Studio, New York City
GenreJazz
Length70:27
LabelColumbia
C 30855
ProducerHelen Keane
Bill Evans chronology
From Left to Right
(1971) 		The Bill Evans Album
(1971) 		Living Time
(1972)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic4/5 stars link
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide4/5 stars[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings2.5/4 stars[3]

The Bill Evans Album is an album by the jazz pianist Bill Evans, released in 1971. It is his first album to feature all compositions written (or co-written), arranged and performed by Evans.

At the Grammy Awards of 1972, The Bill Evans Album won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Solo and the Best Jazz Performance by a Group awards.

The Bill Evans Memorial Library states it is the first recording in which Evans used a Fender Rhodes piano.[4]

The title of the song "Re: Person I Knew" is an anagram of the name of Evans' longtime producer, Orrin Keepnews.[5]

The cover image is based on a photograph taken by music photographer Don Hunstein.

The Bill Evans Album was reissued with three bonus alternative tracks by Sony in 2005.

Track listing[]

All songs by Bill Evans except where noted.

  1. "Funkallero" (Album Version) – 7:45
  2. "Two Lonely People" (Bill Evans, Carol Hall) – 6:10
  3. "" (Album Version) – 7:02
  4. "Waltz For Debby" (Evans, Gene Lees) – 7:41
  5. "T.T.T. (Twelve Tone Tune)" – 6:38
  6. "Re: Person I Knew" – 5:52
  7. "Comrade Conrad" (Album Version) – 7:34
    2005 reissue bonus tracks:
  8. "Waltz for Debby" [alternate take] (Evans, Gene Lees) – 7:47
  9. "Re: Person I Knew" [alternate take] – 7:16
  10. "Funkallero" [alternate take] – 6:09

Personnel[]

Production

  • Helen Keane – producer
  • Peter Weiss – engineer, mixing
  • Orrin Keepnews – reissue producer
  • Mark Wilder – remastering
  • John Berg – art direction
  • Fred Binkley – liner notes
  • Don Hunstein – photography
  • Seth Rothstein – project director
  • Paula Wood – art direction, design

Charts[]

Year Chart Position
1971 Billboard Jazz Albums 14

References[]

  1. ^ Billboard Aug 21, 1971
  2. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 73. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  3. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 457. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  4. ^ The Bill Evans Memorial Library
  5. ^ Original issue liner notes by Fred Binkley, 1971.
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