Global InformationThe Bill Evans Album information
| The Bill Evans Album | ||||
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| Studio album by Bill Evans | ||||
| Released | End of August/early September 1971[1] | |||
| Recorded | May 11–12, 17, 19-20 and June 9, 1971[2] | |||
| Studio | CBS 30th Street Studio, New York City | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 70:27 | |||
| Label | Columbia C 30855 | |||
| Producer | Helen Keane | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   link |
| The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | [3] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |  [4] |
The Bill Evans Album is an album by the jazz pianist Bill Evans, released in 1971 on the Columbia label. It is his first album to feature all compositions written (or co-written), arranged and performed by him. It was the first recording in which Evans used a Fender Rhodes piano.[5]
At the Grammy Awards of 1972, the album won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Solo and the Best Jazz Performance by a Group awards.
The title of the song "Re: Person I Knew" (recorded first on his 1962 Moon Beams album) is an anagram of the name of Evans' longtime producer, Orrin Keepnews.[6] The cover image is based on a photograph taken by music photographer Don Hunstein.
The Bill Evans Album was reissued, with three bonus alternative tracks, by Sony in 2005.
- ^ Billboard Aug 21, 1971
- ^ https://www.jazzdisco.org/bill-evans/catalog/
- ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 73. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 457. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- ^ The Bill Evans Memorial Library
- ^ Original issue liner notes by Fred Binkley, 1971.