Everybody Digs Bill Evans

Occupation

• Piano: Bill Evans
• Bass: Sam Jones
• Drums: Philly Joe Jones

Everybody Digs Bill Evans is a jazz album by Bill Evans, recorded on 15 December 1958, and published the following year at Riverside Records.

The album

. Everybody Digs Bill Evans was the second album by the pianist under his own name after his debut with New Jazz Conceptions 1956 1958 Evans worked with trumpeter Miles Davis together ( Milestones ); The two musicians were moving " at this stage of its development parallel to each other ," wrote Evans biographer Hans E. Petrik, " and then you should still take almost a year to Davis then took the perfect fusion of its specific capabilities with those of Evans. This happened in the spring of 1959, when Kind of Blue was born '. In October 1958, the collaboration between Evans and Davis ended; the sensitive pianist had not withstood the stresses in the Davis band with Coltrane and Adderley longer. He was still having to Art Farmer album Farmer's Market and then disappeared to Florida, where his parents had a house, played golf, practiced piano, pausing otherwise. In November 1958 he returned to New York, where he first worked with George Russell Jazz Workshop. Shortly thereafter, Orrin Keepnews, the producer of small jazz label Riverside Records brought him into the studio; Even Evans ' debut album, New Jazz Conceptions had been 27 months previously recorded at Riverside. With bassist Sam Jones, the Evans knew from the Adderley band, and drummer Philly Joe Jones with, the colleagues from the Miles Davis band, a trio album there again. The result bribed particularly by some slow songs like the Evans composition " Peace Piece", which he interpreted already in his distinctive style; a development which was to culminate in the recordings of the trio with Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian from December 1959 in albums such as Portrait in Jazz, Explorations, and finally have the Village Vanguard concert on 25 June 1961.

Effective history

Everybody Digs Bill Evans has become one of the classic albums of the Riverside label, such as, inter alia, Brilliant Corners by Thelonious Monk, The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery or Kelly Blue Wynton Kelly. Richard Cook and Brian Morton draw in their Penguin Guide to Jazz from the album with the highest rating of four stars. The All Music Guide rated it with 4 ( out of 5) stars.

The title

• Bill Evans - Everybody Digs Bill Evans ( Riverside RLP 12-291 )

The bonus track " Some Other Time " a CD release limited edition of JVCXR JVC -0020 -2, 1981 has already been added. The title was recorded as the other tracks on the album December 15, 1958.