Bill Evans Trio with Symphony Orchestra

Bill Evans Trio with Symphony Orchestra
Studio album by Bill Evans
Released 1966
Recorded October and December 1965 at Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Genre Jazz
Length 37:28
Label Verve
Producer Creed Taylor
Bill Evans chronology

Trio '65
(1965)		 Bill Evans Trio with Symphony Orchestra
(1965)		 Bill Evans at Town Hall
(1966)

Bill Evans Trio with Symphony Orchestra is an album by American jazz pianist Bill Evans and his Trio, released in 1966. The Evans trio is accompanied by a symphony orchestra conducted and arranged by Claus Ogerman.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
All About Jazz (favorable) [2]

Scott Yanow stated in his Allmusic review: "This collaboration is predictably dull... one of Bill Evans' least significant recordings, a weak third stream effort."[1] In contrast, Roger Crane states in his All About Jazz review "Although dismissed by some critics, this CD, with arrangements by Claus Ogermann, is very lovely. Evans was very proud of this album. Ogermann's charts are sweetly romantic rather than overbearing, and this gives Evans and his trio (with bassist Chuck Israels and drummer Grady Tate) room to maneuver. Evans' composition "My Bells" is one of the stronger cuts."[2]

Track listing

  1. "Granadas" (Enrique Granados) – 5:54
  2. "Valse" (Johann Sebastian Bach) – 5:52
  3. "Prelude" (Alexander Scriabin) – 3:01
  4. "Time Remembered" (Bill Evans) – 4:10
  5. "Pavane" (Gabriel Fauré) – 4:01
  6. "Elegia (Elegy)" (Claus Ogerman) – 5:12
  7. "My Bells" (Evans) – 3:48
  8. "Blue Interlude" (Frédéric Chopin) – 6:04

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Yanow, Scott. "Bill Evans Trio with Symphony Orchestra > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved June 26, 2011.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Crane, Roger. "Bill Evans Trio with Symphony Orchestra > Review". All About Jazz. Retrieved June 26, 2011.

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