Quintessence (Bill Evans album)

For other forms of quintessence, see Quintessence (disambiguation).
Quintessence
Studio album by Bill Evans
Released 1976
Recorded May 27–30, 1976
Fantasy Studios, Berkeley
Genre Jazz
Length 42:56 (reissue)
Label Fantasy
F-9529
Producer Helen Keane
Bill Evans chronology
Alone Again
(1975)		 Quintessence
(1976)		 Crosscurrents
(1977)

Quintessence is an album by American jazz pianist Bill Evans, released in 1976.

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]

Writing for Allmusic, music critic Scott Yanow called the album "a nice change of pace."[1]

Track listing

  1. "Sweet Dulcinea Blue" (Kenny Wheeler) – 6:02
  2. "Martina" (Michel Legrand, Eddy Marnay, Hal Shaper) – 8:12
  3. "Second Time Around" (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 3:41
  4. "A Child Is Born" (Thad Jones, Alec Wilder) – 7:30
  5. "Bass Face" (Kenny Burrell) – 10:04

Reissue bonus track:

  1. "Nobody Else But Me" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) – 7:27

Personnel

Technical personnel

Chart positions

Year Chart Position
1977 Billboard Jazz Albums 20

References

  1. ^ a b Yanow, Scott. "Quintessence > Review". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r138449. Retrieved June 28, 2011. 

External links

Bill Evans
Discography
New Jazz Conceptions · Everybody Digs Bill Evans · On Green Dolphin Street · The Ivory Hunters · Portrait in Jazz · Know What I Mean? · Explorations · Sunday at the Village Vanguard · Waltz for Debby · Nirvana · Undercurrent · Moon Beams · How My Heart Sings! · Interplay · Empathy · Loose Blues · The Solo Sessions, Vol. 1 · The Solo Sessions, Vol. 2 · The Gary McFarland Orchestra · Conversations With Myself · Plays the Theme from The V.I.P.s and Other Great Songs · Time Remembered · At Shelly's Manne-Hole · Trio '64 · Stan Getz & Bill Evans · Trio Live · Waltz for Debby · Trio '65 · Bill Evans Trio with Symphony Orchestra · Bill Evans at Town Hall · Intermodulation · A Simple Matter of Conviction · Further Conversations with Myself · California Here I Come · Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival · Bill Evans Alone · What's New · Jazzhouse · You're Gonna Hear From Me · From Left to Right · Quiet Now · Montreux II · Piano Player · The Bill Evans Album · Living Time · The Tokyo Concert · Eloquence · Half Moon Bay · Since We Met · Re: Person I Knew · Symbiosis · But Beautiful · Blue in Green: The Concert in Canada · Intuition  · The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album · Montreux III · Alone Again · Quintessence · Together Again · The Paris Concert · Crosscurrents · I Will Say Goodbye · You Must Believe in Spring · Getting Sentimental · New Conversations · Affinity · Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz · We Will Meet Again · Homecoming · The Paris Concert: Edition One · The Paris Concert: Edition Two · Turn Out the Stars: The Final Village Vanguard Recordings · Letter to Evan · Turn Out the Stars · The Last Waltz: The Final Recordings · Consecration: The Final Recordings Part 2
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Associated musicians