Interplay (Bill Evans album)

Interplay
Studio album by Bill Evans
Released 1962
Recorded July 16–17[1] and August 21, 1962
New York City
Genre Jazz
Length 45:27
Label Riverside
RLP-445
Producer Orrin Keepnews
Bill Evans chronology

How My Heart Sings!
(1962)		 Interplay
(1962)		 Empathy
(1962)

Interplay is a 1962 album by jazz musician Bill Evans. It was recorded in July and August 1962 in NYC for Riverside Records. The Interplay Sessions is a 1982 album that includes this album as well as some sessions recorded on August 21-22 of the same year for Milestone Records (also with Philly Joe Jones and Jim Hall, but with Zoot Sims [tenor saxophone] and Ron Carter replacing Percy Heath on bass).

The Interplay Sessions peaked at #26 on the Billboard Jazz Albums charts in 1983.[2] The CD reissue Interplay adds another take of "I'll Never Smile Again" as a bonus track. At the Grammy Awards of 1984, Orrin Keepnews won the Grammy Award for Best Album Notes for the reissue.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [2]

Writing for Allmusic, music critic Scott Yanow called the album "Excellent music."[2]

Track listing

  1. "You and the Night and the Music" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) – 7:04
  2. "When You Wish upon a Star" (Leigh Harline, Ned Washington) – 5:45
  3. "I'll Never Smile Again" [take 7; original take] (Ruth Lowe) – 6:32
  4. "I'll Never Smile Again" [take 6] – 6:38
  5. "Interplay" (Bill Evans) – 8:14
  6. "You Go to My Head" (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie) – 5:06
  7. "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away)" (Harry Barris, Ted Koehler, Billy Moll) – 6:24

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Jazz Discography Project. "Bill Evans Catalog". Jazzdisco.org. Retrieved 2011-02-15.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Yanow, Scott. "Interplay > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved June 28, 2011.

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