Empathy (Album)

Occupation

Empathy is a jazz album by Bill Evans, recorded in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on August 14, 1962, was published in 1963 by Verve Records.

The album

After eight years, who was the pianist with Orrin Keepnews ' Label Riverside Records, he relied on the advice of his new manager Helen Keane the troubled label and moved in 1962 to the larger Verve label. On August 14, 1962 his first recording session for Verve took place in Englewood Cliffs in Rudy Van Gelder's studio.

The album was under peculiar circumstances, as the critic Dave Nathan noted in Allmusic: Shelly Manne & His Men were at this time in New York's Village Vanguard, alternating with the Bill Evans Trio. With the permission of Orrin Keepnews, in which Evans was still under contract, managed Creed Taylor, to organize a joint session in Van Gelder's studio with Evans and Shelly Manne. Man's bassist at the time was Monty Budwig, who then completed the trio. In contrast to the previous Riverside albums ( on which the pianist played his own compositions ) contains the first release for Verve a selection of jazz standards from the Great American Songbook with two relatively unknown numbers by Irving Berlin, also Rodgers / Hart's " With a Song in My Heart, " Frank Loesser " I Believe in You ", the traditional ballad" Danny Boy " and Gordon Jenkins composition" Goodbye ".

Reviews of the album

Nathan Davis at Allmusic rated the result of the interaction with man and Budwig positive: " As a result, his game appears lighter, freer and more relaxed than they were a while ago ." The album put up with a snappy version of Irving Berlin's "The Washington Twist". The author pays tribute to Shelly man game that the pianist to a aufgeweckteren play than usual driving, as Loesser "I Believe in You" or in Berlin's " Let's Go Back To The Waltz", a relatively unknown Berlin- title Evans opportunity for lyrical game admit. The longest piece is the bold version of the otherwise often mocked "With a Song in My Heart". Richard Cook and Brian Morton recorded the album in the Penguin Guide to Jazz with the second highest rating and praised the spontaneous session the fantastic interaction especially in "With a Song in My Heart". The Evans biographer Hanns E. Petrik is the selection of the titles are not always satisfactory; some of them had played joyless in his view. An example of this Irving Berlin's "The Washington Twist", a meaningless after Petrik song, built on the harmonies of the hit song " Franky and Johnny " appears to him. However, the panel also offer rants - the nine minute variety of written by Richard Rodgers musical tune "With a Song in My Heart". Besides a subtle analysis of the topic harmonies of this piece of bribe by his unexpected epilogue in which Evans would summarize it all over again.

Editorial note

For the new edition of the album on CD recordings of Empathy session with the 1966 resulting album A Simple Matter of Conviction were coupled, which was created on 11 October 1966. It was the first album Evans ' with the young bassist Eddie Gomez; Drummer was again Shelly Manne.

The title

  • Bill Evans: Empathy ( Verve 23MJ 3032, CD: 837757-2 )

Swell

  • Richard Cook & Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings, 8th Edition, London, Penguin, 2006 ISBN 978-0-14-017949-1.
  • Ian Carr, Digby Fairweather & Brian Priestley: Rough Guide Jazz, Stuttgart, Metzler 2004 ( 2nd edition); ISBN 978-3-476-01892-2.
  • Hanns E. Petrik Bill Evans: His life, his music, his records. Oreos, Waakirchen (1989); ISBN 3-923657-23-4.
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