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Undercurrent (Bill Evans and Jim Hall album)

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Released
  
Early August 1962

Undercurrent (1962)
  
Intermodulation (1966)

Release date
  
August 1962

Label
  
United Artists Records

Undercurrent (1962)
  
Moon Beams (1962)

Artists
  
Bill Evans, Jim Hall

Producer
  
Alan Douglas

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
April 24 & May 14, 1962 Sound Makers, New York City

Length
  
30:12 original LP 52:21 CD reissue

Similar
  
Bill Evans albums, Jazz albums

Bill evans jim hall undercurrent 1962 album


Undercurrent is a 1962 album by jazz pianist Bill Evans and jazz guitarist Jim Hall. They would collaborate again in 1966 for the follow-up album Intermodulation.

Contents

In his November 26, 1962 review for Down Beat magazine jazz critic Pete Welding states: "This collaboration between Evans and Hall has resulted in some of the most beautiful, throughly ingratiating music it has been my pleasure to hear..."

The front cover image for Undercurrent is Toni Frissell's photograph "Weeki Wachee Spring, Florida". The album was originally released on United Artists, then reissued by Solid State in 1968. More recently, the album was reissued on EMI/Blue Note (in fact, both Blue Note and United Artists Records have been owned for a long time by EMI). The original LP and the first CD reissue featured a cropped, blue-tinted version, overlaid with the title and the Blue Note logo in white; but for the most recent (24-bit remastered) CD reissue, the image has been restored to its original black-and-white coloration and size, without lettering.

Undercurrent bill evans and jim hall full album


Track listing

Original LP

  1. "My Funny Valentine" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 5:21
  2. "I Hear a Rhapsody" (Jack Baker, George Fragos, Dick Gasparre) – 4:36
  3. "Dream Gypsy" (Judith Veveers)– 4:33
  4. "Romain" (Jim Hall) – 5:19
  5. "Skating in Central Park" (John Lewis) – 5:19
  6. "Darn That Dream" (Eddie DeLange, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 5:04

Bonus tracks on 2002 Blue Note CD reissue:

  1. "Stairway to the Stars" (Matty Malneck, Mitchell Parish, Frank Signorelli) – 5:38
  2. "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" (George Bassman, Ned Washington) – 4:13
  3. "My Funny Valentine [Alternate Take] – 6:54
  4. "Romain" [Alternate Take] – 5:24

Recorded on April 24 (#2, 7, 8) and May 14 (all others), 1962.

Personnel

  • Bill Evans – piano
  • Jim Hall – guitar
  • Songs

    1My Funny Valentine5:26
    2I Hear a Rhapsody4:40
    3Dream Gypsy4:36

    References

    Undercurrent (Bill Evans and Jim Hall album) Wikipedia