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ARTIST
EVANS, BILL
TITLE
Conversations With Myself
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
ALTERNATIVE FOX
CATALOG #
FOX 007LP
FOX 007LP
GENRE
JAZZ
RELEASE DATE
8/9/2019
Alternative Fox presents a reissue of
Bill Evans
's
Conversations With Myself
, originally released in 1963. The inventive and expressive pianist Bill Evans made significant and lasting impact in the jazz realm during a career that stretched from the late 1950s to the late 1970s. Born in Plainfield, New Jersey in 1929, his father's alcoholism caused a disrupted childhood, though his musical talent was spotted early, leading to a scholarship at the Southeastern Louisiana University and the Mannes School of Music, where he majored in composition. Moving to New York in the mid-50s to work with
George Russell
, Evans's breakthrough came via his membership of
Miles Davis
's sextet, where his intense and melodic playing helped make
Kind of Blue
(1959) an outstanding landmark, during a time when he was also contributing to
Chet Baker
's self-titled LP. Evans formed a popular trio with
Scott LaFaro
and
Paul Motian
, which was cut short after LaFaro tragically died in a car crash, leading to the creation of a new trio with
Chuck Israels
. Then, following collaborative albums with
Cannonball Adderley
,
Eric Dolphy
,
Shelly Mann
,
Jim Hall
, and others, Evans recorded the concept album
Conversations With Myself
for Verve Records. Produced in a permissive atmosphere with
Creed Taylor
and engineer
Ray Hall
in February 1963 and subtitled
A Searching Look into the Genius of Bill Evans
, the album features a multi-tracked Evans playing only with himself on piano, with each track featuring an improvised second and third piano line, overdubbed atop what Evans laid down first. Reconstructed renditions of
Thelonious Monk
's "'Round About Midnight" and "Blue Monk" give way to "Theme From Spartacus" and Evans' own "NYC's No Lark"; this edition features two bonus tracks, the first a re-organized take of Monk's "Bemsha Swing", the second a rendition of the Broadway show tune, "A Sleepin' Bee".
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