Further Conversations with Myself
Further Conversations with Myself | ||||
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Studio album by Bill Evans | ||||
Released | December 1967[1] | |||
Recorded | August 9, 1967 | |||
Venue | Webster Hall, New York City | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 35:03 | |||
Label | Verve V6-8727 | |||
Producer | Helen Keane | |||
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Further Conversations with Myself is a 1967 album by jazz pianist Bill Evans. All the pieces are solo with piano overdubs, a method Evans used on his earlier release Conversations with Myself. This time, however, he employed only two piano tracks instead of three. The album was nominated for a Grammy.[2] It was reissued on CD by Verve in 1999.[3]
Reception
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [4] |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [5] |
Writing for AllMusic, music critic Scott Yanow called the album "A thoughtful and (despite the overdubbing) spontaneous sounding set of melodic music."[4] Peter Pettinger notes that it "opens with the arresting beauty of that new title in the Evans book, Johnny Mandel's 'Emily,' a fresh bloom that was to become a great favorite. The same composer's Academy Award-winning 'The Shadow of Your Smile,' from the 1965 film The Sandpiper, received a probing performance, one of the most concentrated of Evans's career, developing with increasing insistence and relentless pace .... By contrast, a stark emotional directness was brought to Denny Zeitlin's fine tune 'Quiet Now,' another Evans mainstay-in-the-making."[6]
Track listing
- "Emily" (Johnny Mandel, Johnny Mercer) - 4:56
- "Yesterdays" (Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern) - 3:50
- "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie) - 3:47
- "Funny Man" (Bill Evans) - 3:45
- "The Shadow of Your Smile (Love Theme from "The Sandpiper")" (Mandel, Paul Francis Webster) - 8:03
- "Little Lulu" (Buddy Kaye, Sidney Lippman, Fred Wise) - 2:50
- "Quiet Now" (Denny Zeitlin) - 7:53
Credits
- Bill Evans - overdubbed pianos
- Ray Hall - engineer
References
- ^ Dec 23, 1967 Billboard magazine
- ^ Pettinger, Peter, Bill Evans: How My Heart Sings, Yale University Press, 1998, pp. 186-87.
- ^ Verve Music Group web site entry.
- ^ a b Yanow, Scott. "Further Conversations with Myself > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved June 28, 2011.
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 457. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- ^ Pettinger, p. 186.
External links
- Jazz Discography entries for Bill Evans
- Bill Evans Memorial Library discography
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- New Jazz Conceptions
- Tenderly: An Informal Session
- Everybody Digs Bill Evans
- On Green Dolphin Street
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- Portrait in Jazz
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- Waltz for Debby
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- A Simple Matter of Conviction
- Further Conversations with Myself
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- From Left to Right
- Quiet Now
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- The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album
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- California Here I Come
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- Homecoming
- The Paris Concert: Edition One
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- Letter to Evan
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- The Last Waltz: The Final Recordings
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- Michael Moore
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