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How My Heart Sings: Craft Recordings Readies New Career-Spanning Box for Bill Evans

April 13, 2021 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Everybody Still Digs Bill Evans

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Bill Evans would have earned his place in the jazz history books if only for his role on Miles Davis' landmark 1959 set Kind of Blue.  But the pianist-composer and modal jazz innovator recorded over 50 live and studio albums as a leader before his untimely death in 1980 at the age of just 51, leaving behind a legacy of some of the most beautiful jazz ever committed to tape.  In addition to Davis, he also served as a sideman to musicians including Chet Baker, Cannonball Adderley, Charles Mingus, and Lee Konitz.  Now, Craft Recordings is celebrating Evans' expansive discography with his first ever career-spanning box set.  Everybody Still Digs Bill Evans: A Career Retrospective (1956-1980) is due from the label on June 25.  The thematically-organized 5-CD box set premieres a previously unreleased live set from 1975 recorded at Oil Can Harry's in Vancouver, British Columbia.  That concert, titled On a Friday Evening, will be issued the same day as a standalone release in 2-LP, CD, and digital formats (including 192/24 and 96/24 high resolution options).

Everybody Still Digs Bill Evans: A Career Retrospective (1956-1980) covers many of Evans' key label affiliations as a leader including Riverside, Milestone, Fantasy, Verve, Warner Bros., and Elektra.  (He was so prolific that he also recorded for United Artists, Atlantic, MGM, Philips, MPS, CTI, and Columbia.)  Personnel includes Stan Getz, Shelly Manne, Kenny Burrell, and many other boldface names.  The first two discs concentrate on Evans' legendary trios (with whom he released more than 40 LPs).  The first CD draws on his Riverside period (roughly 1956-1963) during which time he played with such luminaries as Philly Joe Jones, Paul Chambers, and Sam Jones, to formally creating The Bill Evans Trio alongside drummer Paul Motian and bassist Scott LaFaro.  Upon LaFaro's untimely passing in 1961 in a car accident, a grief-stricken Evans picked up the piece with musicians including Chuck Israels (bass) and Larry Bunker (drums).  The second disc highlights his post-Riverside trio recordings with Eddie Gomez, Jack DeJohnette, Joe LaBarbera, and others.

Disc Three explores Evans' solo recordings (both truly solo and with overdubs of himself) including such notable recordings as "Peace Piece" and "Waltz for Debby" and his beautiful interpretations of Jule Styne, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green's "Make Someone Happy," Johnny Mandel and Johnny Mercer's "Emily," and Miles Davis' "Nardis."  The fourth CD delves into his non-trio collaborations including Tony Bennett, guitarist Jim Hall, and pianist/radio personality Marian McPartland.  Evans' quartet and quintet settings also are featured on this disc.  The final disc of the box set presents On a Friday Evening, featuring Eddie Gomez on bass and Eliot Zigmund on drums.  The June 20, 1975 gig at Vancouver's Oil Can Harry's was captured in its entirety for Canadian radio host Gary Barclay, who served as the announcer and later aired the concert on his CHQM Radio jazz show.  The original tapes have been restored using the Plangent Process and mastered by Paul Blakemore.

Bill Evans On a Friday Evening

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Produced by Nick Phillips, Everybody Still Digs Bill Evans: A Career Retrospective (1956-1980) is housed in a fabric-wrapped, hardcover book boasting 48 pages of photos and ephemera plus new liner notes from jazz historian Neil Tesser.  The box will also be released in digital and streaming formats.  The standalone release of On a Friday Evening will also feature Tesser's liner notes incorporating interviews and track-by-track commentary.

Everybody Still Digs Bill Evans: A Career Retrospective (1956-1980) looks to be a major addition to any jazz library and a deep dive into one of the most influential pianists of all time.  Look for it at the links below from Craft Recordings on June 25.

Bill Evans, Everybody Still Digs Bill Evans: A Career Retrospective (1956-1980) (Craft Recordings, 2021) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

CD 1: Trialogues, Vol. 1

  1. Five
  2. Woody'N You [take 2]
  3. Young and Foolish
  4. Autumn Leaves
  5. How Deep Is the Ocean
  6. Sweet and Lovely
  7. Blue in Green
  8. How My Heart Sings
  9. Re: Person I Knew
  10. My Foolish Heart (live)
  11. Waltz for Debby (live)
  12. Gloria's Step (live)
  13. My Man's Gone Now (live)
  14. Swedish Pastry (live)

CD 2: Trialogues, Vol. 2

  1. Israel
  2. The Peacocks
  3. I Believe in You
  4. Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
  5. I Will Say Goodbye
  6. Turn Out the Stars (live)
  7. Walkin' Up (live)
  8. Very Early (live)
  9. Minha (All Mine) (live)
  10. My Romance (live)
  11. Days of Wine and Roses (live)
  12. The Touch of Your Lips (live)
  13. Someday My Prince Will Come (live)

CD 3: Monologues

  1. Peace Piece
  2. Danny Boy
  3. Make Someone Happy
  4. A Time for Love
  5. Waltz for Debby
  6. The Bad and the Beautiful
  7. Y.C.'s No Lark
  8. Emily
  9. Remembering the Rain
  10. I Loves You Porgy (live)
  11. Letter to Evan (live)
  12. Nardis (live)

CD 4: Dialogues & Confluences

  1. My Funny Valentine
  2. A Face Without a Name
  3. The Touch of Your Lips (Vocal Version)
  4. I Love You
  5. Up with the Lark (live)
  6. Funkallero (live)
  7. Who Cares?
  8. Body and Soul
  9. You and the Night and the Music
  10. Time Remembered
  11. Night and Day
  12. A Child Is Born
  13. Peri's Scope

CD 5: Epilogue

  1. Sareen Jurer (live)
  2. Sugar Plum (live)
  3. The Two Lonely People (live)
  4. T. T. (Twelve Tone Tune) (live)
  5. Quiet Now (live)
  6. Up with the Lark (live)
  7. How Deep Is the Ocean (live)
  8. Blue Serge (live)
  9. Nardis (live)

Bill Evans, On a Friday Evening (Craft Recordings, 2021)

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Side A

  1. Sareen Jurer (live)
  2. Sugar Plum (live)

Side B

  1. The Two Lonely People (live)
  2. T. T. (Twelve Tone Tune) (live)
  3. Quiet Now (live)

Side C

  1. Up with the Lark (live)
  2. How Deep Is the Ocean (live)

 Side D

  1. Blue Serge (live)
  2. Nardis (live)

Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Bill Evans, Jim Hall, Kenny Burrell, Marian McPartland, Shelly Manne, Stan Getz, Tony Bennett

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JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, has released newly-curated collections produced by Joe from iconic artists such as Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Chet Atkins, and many others. He has contributed liner notes to reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, B.J. Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, and Andy Williams, and has compiled releases for talents including Robert Goulet and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray. Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.

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  1. Robert Lett says

    April 14, 2021 at 10:59 am

    Definitely getting this. Looks great and Craft packages are top notch in general.

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