Conversations with Myself (album)

Recording with Glenn Gould's piano, CD 318, at studio sessions on February 6 and 9, and May 20, 1963, Evans used the then controversial method of overdubbing three different yet corresponding piano tracks for each song.

Evans followed Conversations with Myself with Further Conversations with Myself and New Conversations, both recorded in a similar vein.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Down Beat	^[1] (Original Lp release)
Allmusic	^[2]
All About Jazz	^[3]

The album earned Evans his first Grammy Award in 1964 for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group. It received a 5-star review in Down Beat in 1963.^[4]

Writing for Allmusic, music critic Michael G. Nastos wrote:

Certainly one of the more unusual items in the discography of an artist whose consistency is as evident as any in modern jazz, and nothing should dissuade you from purchasing this one of a kind album that in some ways set a technological standard for popular music – and jazz – to come.^[2]

Jason Laipply of All About Jazz wrote:

[The album] was an instant classic for the jazz community. Evans' work on the ten tunes included here is truly inspired and amazing to behold... this glimpse of the artist at a heightened level of expression is very rewarding indeed. However, for the casual fan, I would not suggest this disc. The musical vocabulary is complex enough that the simple beauty of the songs, and Evans playing, is at times lost.^[3]

Track listing

"'Round Midnight" (Monk, Williams) – 6:35
"How About You?" (Lane, Ralph Freed) – 2:50
"Spartacus Love Theme" (Alex North) – 5:10
"Blue Monk" (Monk) – 4:32
"Stella by Starlight" (Young, Washington) – 4:52
"Hey There" (Richard Adler, Ross) – 4:31
"N.Y.C.'s No Lark" (Bill Evans) – 5:36
"Just You, Just Me" (Jesse Greer, Raymond Klages) – 2:37
"Bemsha Swing" (Denzil Best, Monk) – 2:56
"A Sleepin' Bee" (Arlen, Capote) – 4:10

Tracks 9 and 10 not part of original LP release. Track 7 recorded on February 6, 1963; tracks 1, 2, 5, 6, 8-10 on February 9; tracks 3 and 4 recorded on May 20, 1963.

Personnel

Bill Evans - overdubbed piano

References

↑ Down Beat: October 24, 1963 Vol. 30, No.28
1 2 Nastos, Michael G. "Conversations with Myself > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved June 28, 2011.
1 2 Laipply, Jason. "Conversations with Myself > Review". All About Jazz. Retrieved June 28, 2011.
↑ All About Jazz review. Jason R. Laipply Accessed January 2009.

External links

Bill Evans
Discography	New Jazz Conceptions Tenderly: An Informal Session 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 The 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 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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