artist:Bill Evans 8 notes
Bill Evans passed away in 1980, but his legacy keeps growing with labels constantly digging up unreleased material. There's a new BBC recording set coming in 2026, plus they've been putting out compilations pretty regularly over the past few years.
May 24
Nights at the Roundtable
Bill Evans Trio · 1961 Spin it Again - A 1961 record from Bill Evans Trio that rewards close listening.
 genre:Hard Bop
Apr 6
Waltz for Debby: Jazz Piano Masterpiece Guide
Bill Evans Trio · 1962 Spin it Again - Bill Evans, Scott LaFaro, and Paul Motian in a New York restaurant, February 1961, and LaFaro was dead ten days later, which is the only context you need.
 genre:Hard Bop
Apr 5
Portrait in Jazz
Bill Evans Trio · 1959 Spin it Again - Bill Evans, Scott LaFaro, and Paul Motley treating silence like a fourth instrument, and nobody's been the same about piano trios since.
 genre:Piano Jazz
Apr 5
Sunday at the Village Vanguard
Bill Evans Trio · 1961 Spin it Again - Bill Evans, Scott LaFaro, and Paul Motley playing jazz like a conversation no one wanted to end, ten days before LaFaro died.
 genre:Hard Bop
Apr 2
Peace Piece
Bill Evans · 1958 Spin it Again - Bill Evans alone at the piano in 1958, holding one bass note for eleven minutes while the right hand just wanders, and somehow that's enough.
 genre:Piano Jazz
Apr 2
Waltz for Debby
Bill Evans Trio · 1962 Spin it Again - Bill Evans plays like he's trying not to wake someone up, and Scott LaFaro is dead eleven days after this was recorded.
 genre:Hard Bop
Mar 30
Everybody Digs Bill Evans
Bill Evans · 1959 Spin it Again - Bill Evans in 1959, playing piano like he was working something out privately and just forgot to close the door.
 genre:Hard Bop
Mar 30
Nightfall
Bill Evans Trio · 1963 Spin it Again - Bill Evans in 1963, late, quiet, the piano doing exactly what a piano should do when there's nothing left to prove.
 genre:Hard Bop

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