Released June 1963 Label Riverside
RLP-445 Artist Bill Evans Producer Orrin Keepnews | Length 45:27 Interplay
(1962) Empathy
(1962) Release date 1962 Genre Jazz | |
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Recorded July 16–17 and August 21, 1962
New York City Awards Grammy Award for Best Album Notes Similar New Jazz Conceptions, Sunday at the Village Vanguard, Explorations, Everybody Digs Bill Evans, The Bill Evans Album | ||
Bill evans freddie hubbard interplay 1962 album
Interplay is a 1963 album by jazz musician Bill Evans. It was recorded in July and August 1962 in NYC for Riverside Records. The Interplay Sessions is a 1982 album that includes this album as well as some sessions recorded on August 21-22 of the same year for Milestone Records (also with Philly Joe Jones and Jim Hall, but with Zoot Sims [tenor saxophone] and Ron Carter replacing Percy Heath on bass).
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- Bill evans freddie hubbard interplay 1962 album
- Bill evans freddie hubbard the interplay sessions 1962 album
- Reception
- Track listing
- Personnel
- Songs
- References
The Interplay Sessions peaked at #26 on the Billboard Jazz Albums charts in 1983. The CD reissue Interplay adds another take of "I'll Never Smile Again" as a bonus track. At the Grammy Awards of 1984, Orrin Keepnews won the Grammy Award for Best Album Notes for the reissue.
Bill evans freddie hubbard the interplay sessions 1962 album
Reception
Writing for Allmusic, music critic Scott Yanow called the album "Excellent music."
Track listing
- "You and the Night and the Music" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) – 7:04
- "When You Wish upon a Star" (Leigh Harline, Ned Washington) – 5:45
- "I'll Never Smile Again" [take 7; original take] (Ruth Lowe) – 6:32
- "I'll Never Smile Again" [take 6] – 6:38
- "Interplay" (Bill Evans) – 8:14
- "You Go to My Head" (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie) – 5:06
- "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away)" (Harry Barris, Ted Koehler, Billy Moll) – 6:24
Personnel
Songs
1You and the Night and the Music7:05
2When You Wish Upon a Star5:45
3I'll Never Smile Again6:34