Bill Evans at Town Hall

Last updated
Bill Evans at Town Hall
Billevansattownhall.jpg
Live album by
The Bill Evans Trio
Released1966
RecordedFebruary 21, 1966
Venue The Town Hall, New York City
Genre Jazz
Length35:12
Label Verve
The Bill Evans Trio chronology
Bill Evans Trio with Symphony Orchestra
(1966)		Bill Evans at Town Hall
(1966)		 Intermodulation
(1966)

Bill Evans at Town Hall is a live album from 1966 by American jazz pianist Bill Evans and his trio. It was released as "Volume 1," but no subsequent volume appeared. A planned release of big-band material, featuring Evans, from the second part of the concert ended up being nixed, as according to Evans's manager, Helen Keane, the pianist "did not play his best" during the second half. [1]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [4]

Writing for AllMusic, music critic Scott Yanow called the album "a superior effort by Bill Evans and his trio in early 1966. ... [T]his live set features the group mostly performing lyrical and thoughtful standards. ... However the most memorable piece is the 13½-minute 'Solo - In Memory of His Father,' an extensive unaccompanied exploration by Evans that partly uses a theme that became 'Turn Out the Stars.'" [2] The lengthy solo also features a newly composed "Prologue," somewhat reminiscent of Satie and Debussy, an elaborated version of "Re: Person I Knew," now titled "Storyline," and a closing "Epilogue" drawn from the 1958 album Everybody Digs Bill Evans . [5] Evans's biographer Peter Pettinger notes that "'Turn Out the Stars' was to endure and to become arguably Evans's second-greatest classic after 'Waltz for Debby.'" [6]

Track listing

Side one

  1. "I Should Care" (Sammy Cahn, Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston) – 5:30
  2. "Spring Is Here" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 5:00
  3. "Who Can I Turn To" (Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley) – 6:17

Side two

  1. "Make Someone Happy" (Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Jule Styne) – 4:45
  2. "Solo - In Memory of His Father Harry L. (Prologue/Improvisation on Two Themes/Story Line/Turn Out the Stars/Epilogue)" (Evans) – 13:40

Reissue

  1. "I Should Care" (Sammy Cahn, Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston) – 5:30
  2. "Spring Is Here" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 5:00
  3. "Who Can I Turn To" (Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley) – 6:17
  4. "Make Someone Happy" (Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Jule Styne) – 4:45
  5. "In Memory of His Father Harry L. (Prologue/Story Line/Turn Out the Stars/Epilogue)" (Evans) – 13:40
  6. "Beautiful Love" (Haven Gillespie, Wayne King, Egbert Van Alstyne, Victor Young) – 6:56
  7. "My Foolish Heart" (Ned Washington, Victor Young) – 4:51
  8. "One for Helen" (Evans) – 5:51

Personnel

Chart positions

YearChartPosition
1967Billboard Jazz Albums12

Related Research Articles

<i>The Columbia Years 1943–1952: The Complete Recordings</i> 1993 box set by Frank Sinatra

The Columbia Years 1943–1952: The Complete Recordings is a 1993 box set album by American singer Frank Sinatra.

<i>Voices Within</i> 1999 studio album by Ilse Huizinga

Voices Within is a 1999 album by Dutch jazz singer Ilse Huizinga.

<i>Together Again</i> (Tony Bennett and Bill Evans album) 1977 studio album by Tony Bennett and Bill Evans

Together Again is a 1977 studio album by singer Tony Bennett and jazz pianist Bill Evans. It was originally issued on Bennett's own Improv Records label, which went out of business later that year, but was subsequently reissued on Concord.

<i>Concepts</i> (album) 1992 box set by Frank Sinatra

Concepts is a 1992 sixteen-disc box set compilation of the U.S. singer Frank Sinatra.

<i>Alone (Again)</i> 1977 studio album by Bill Evans

Alone (Again) is a solo piano album by American jazz pianist Bill Evans, recorded in December 1975. It was released in 1977 on Fantasy Records. It was reissued on CD in 1994 by Original Jazz Classics.

<i>My Favorite Instrument</i> 1968 studio album by Oscar Peterson

My Favorite Instrument is a 1968 album by jazz pianist Oscar Peterson. It was his first solo piano release.

<i>Just One of Those Things</i> (album) 1957 studio album by Nat King Cole

Just One of Those Things is a 1957 album by Nat King Cole, arranged by Billy May. The record placed at number 18 on the Billboard album chart.

<i>Falling in Love with Jazz</i> 1989 studio album by Sonny Rollins

Falling in Love with Jazz is an album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, released on the Milestone label in 1989, featuring performances by Rollins with Clifton Anderson, Bob Cranshaw, Mark Soskin, Jerome Harris and Jack DeJohnette with Branford Marsalis, Tommy Flanagan and Jeff Watts standing in on two tracks. The cover artwork was by Henri Matisse.

<i>The Complete Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Recordings</i> 2009 compilation album by Tony Bennett and Bill Evans

The Complete Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Recordings is a two-CD box set released in 2009 compiling the two recording sessions by singer Tony Bennett and pianist Bill Evans which produced The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album in 1975 and Together Again in 1976, including twenty alternate takes and two bonus tracks not released on the original albums.

<i>Romance: Songs from the Heart</i> 2007 compilation album by Frank Sinatra

Romance: Songs from the Heart is an album recorded in November 5, 1953 – March 22, 1961 by Frank Sinatra, released posthumously in 2007, that consists of 21 tracks he recorded for Capitol Records. An alternate version of "Nice 'n' Easy" is included on the disc. The songs were remastered for digital from their original analogue versions.

<i>Standards in Norway</i> 1995 live album by Keith Jarrett

Standards in Norway is a live album by the Keith Jarrett Trio recorded at the Konserthuset in Oslo, Norway, on October 7, 1989 and released by ECM in 1995. The trio—Jarrett's "Standards Trio"—features rhythm section Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette.

<i>Time Remembered</i> (album) 1983 live album by Bill Evans

Time Remembered is a live album by jazz pianist Bill Evans with Chuck Israels and Larry Bunker partially recorded at the Shelly Manne's club in Hollywood, California in May 1963, but not released until 1983 on the Milestone label as a 16-track double LP. It would be later reissued on CD in 1999, with only 13 tracks. The trio performances were recorded at the same sessions that produced At Shelly's Manne-Hole (1963) and were first released on Bill Evans: The Complete Riverside Recordings (1984). The four solo performances were recorded in a separate session in April 1962 in New York City. "Some Other Time" was recorded in December 1958, in New York City.

<i>Loads of Love</i> 1963 studio album by Shirley Horn

Loads of Love is a 1963 jazz studio album by Shirley Horn, arranged by Jimmy Jones. Prestigious musicians collaborated on the album, including Gerry Mulligan, Kenny Burrell, Al Cohn, and Hank Jones.

<i>Milt Jackson Quartet</i> 1955 studio album by Milt Jackson

Milt Jackson Quartet is an album by American jazz vibraphonist Milt Jackson featuring performances recorded in 1955 and released on the Prestige label.

<i>Love Calls</i> 1968 studio album by Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis with Paul Gonsalves

Love Calls is an album by saxophonist Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis with Paul Gonsalves recorded in 1968 for the RCA Victor label.

<i>Preminado</i> 1961 studio album by Barry Harris Trio

Preminado is an album by pianist Barry Harris recorded in late 1960 and early 1961 and released on the Riverside label.

<i>Singin & Swingin</i> (Betty Roché album) 1960 studio album by Betty Roché

Singin' & Swingin' is a 1960 album by the American jazz singer Betty Roché.

<i>Live at Maybeck Recital Hall, Volume Nine</i> 1991 live album by Marian McPartland

Live at Maybeck Recital Hall, Volume Nine is a 1991 live album by jazz pianist Marian McPartland, recorded at the Maybeck Recital Hall in Berkeley, California.

<i>And I Thought About You</i> (Johnny Hartman album) 1959 studio album by Johnny Hartman

And I Thought About You is a studio album by American jazz singer Johnny Hartman, released in 1959 by Roost Records. Teddy Reig, owner of Roost, served as producer, and Rudy Traylor did the arrangements. It was the only album Hartman managed to record between December 1956 and his session with John Coltrane in March 1963.

<i>Ballades</i> (Ahmad Jamal album) 2019 studio album by Ahmad Jamal

Ballades is the final album by American jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal. Consisting mostly of solo piano recordings, the album was recorded at the same time as the 2016 album Marseille. Jamal wrote of the album, "It includes my solo version of “Poinciana”, recorded between takes during our session for “Marseille”. My original version remains one of the most successful recordings in the history of instrumental music; and one of the most plagiarized."

References

  1. ↑ Pettinger, Peter, Bill Evans: How My Heart Sings, Yale University Press, 1998, p. 172.
  2. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. "Bill Evans at Town Hall Review". Allmusic . Retrieved June 28, 2011.
  3. ↑ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 74. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
  4. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 457. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  5. ↑ Pettinger, p. 172.
  6. ↑ Pettinger, p. 173.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.