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The Bill Evans Album

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Length
  
70:27

Artist
  
Bill Evans

Label
  
Columbia Records

Genre
  
Jazz

The Bill Evans Album (1971)
  
Living Time (1972)

Release date
  
1971

Producer
  
Helen Keane

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Released
  
End of August/early September 1971

Recorded
  
May 11-12, 17, 19-20 and June 9, 1971 CBS 30th Street Studio, New York City

Similar
  
Bill Evans albums, Jazz albums

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The Bill Evans Album is an album by the jazz pianist Bill Evans, released in 1971.

Contents

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.

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

Track listing

All songs by Bill Evans unless otherwise noted.

  1. "Funkallero (Album Version)" – 7:45
  2. "Two Lonely People" (Bill Evans, Carol Hall) – 6:10
  3. "Sugar Plum (Album Version)" – 7:02
  4. "Waltz For Debby" (Evans, 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
  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

Credits

  • Bill Evans - piano, fender rhodes
  • Eddie Gómez – bass
  • Marty Morell – drums

    • Production notes

  • 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

    • Songs

    1Funkallero7:51
    2The Two Lonely People6:14
    3Sugar Plum7:06

    References

    The Bill Evans Album Wikipedia
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