Further Conversations with Myself

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Further Conversations with Myself
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Studio album by
ReleasedDecember 1967 [1]
RecordedAugust 9, 1967
Venue Webster Hall, New York City
Genre Jazz
Length35:03
Label Verve
V6-8727
Producer Helen Keane
Bill Evans chronology
A Simple Matter of Conviction
(1966)
Further Conversations with Myself
(1967)
Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival
(1968)

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 . It was reissued on CD by Verve in 1999. [2]

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Writing for Allmusic, music critic Scott Yanow called the album "A thoughtful and (despite the overdubbing) spontaneous sounding set of melodic music." [3]

Track listing

  1. "Emily" (Johnny Mandel, Johnny Mercer) - 4:56
  2. "Yesterdays" (Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern) - 3:50
  3. "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie) - 3:47
  4. "Funny Man" (Bill Evans) - 3:45
  5. "The Shadow of Your Smile (Love Theme from "The Sandpiper")" (Mandel, Paul Francis Webster) - 8:03
  6. "Little Lulu" (Buddy Kaye, Sidney Lippman, Fred Wise) - 2:50
  7. "Quiet Now" (Denny Zeitlin) - 7:53

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References

  1. Dec 23, 1967 Billboard magazine
  2. Verve Music Group web site entry.
  3. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. "Further Conversations with Myself > Review". Allmusic . Retrieved June 28, 2011.
  4. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 457. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.