California Here I Come (album)

California Here I Come
Live album by Bill Evans
Released 1982
Recorded August 17–18, 1967
Village Vanguard, New York City
Genre Jazz
Length 74:34
Label Verve
VE2-2545
Producer Helen Keane
Bill Evans chronology

Further Conversations with Myself
(1967)		 California Here I Come
(1967)		 Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival
(1968)
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California Here I Come is a live album by jazz pianist Bill Evans. It was recorded in 1967, but not released on Verve until 1982 as a double LP. It peaked at #12 on the Billboard Jazz Album charts in 1983 and was reissued on CD in 2004.[3] The pieces were recorded at the legendary Village Vanguard, where Evans had previously recorded the sets appeared on the highly influential Waltz for Debby and Sunday at the Village Vanguard, both later comprised on the definitive collection The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961.

Track listing

  1. "California, Here I Come" (DeSylva, Jolson, Meyer) – 5:32
  2. "Polka Dots and Moonbeams" (Van Heusen, Burke) – 3:22
  3. "Turn Out the Stars" (Bill Evans) – 5:52
  4. "Stella by Starlight" (Washington, Young) – 4:06
  5. "You're Gonna Hear From Me" (Previn, Previn) – 4:57
  6. "In a Sentimental Mood" (Ellington, Mills, Kurtz) – 3:53
  7. "G Waltz" (Evans) – 4:35
  8. "On Green Dolphin Street" (Kaper, Washington) – 4:53
  9. "Gone With the Wind" (Herb Magidson, Wrubel) – 5:35
  10. "If You Could See Me Now" (Dameron, Sigman) – 3:39
  11. "Alfie" (Bacharach, David) – 5:12
  12. "Very Early" (Evans) – 4:44
  13. "'Round Midnight" (Monk, Williams) - 6:07
  14. "Emily" (Mandel, Mercer) – 5:18
  15. "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away)" (Barris, Koehler, Billy Moll) – 6:49

Credits

2004 reissue production notes

References

  1. ↑ Bivens, Ollie (2011). "Bill Evans | California Here I Come". allaboutjazz.com. Retrieved 18 July 2011.
  2. ↑ Yanow, Scott (2011). "California Here I Come - Bill Evans | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 18 July 2011.
  3. ↑ Verve Music Group website entry.

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