Further Conversations with Myself is a 1967 album by jazz pianist Bill Evans. All the pieces are solo with piano overdubs, a method Evans used on his earlier release Conversations with Myself. This time, however, he employed only two piano tracks instead of three. The album was nominated for a Grammy.[2] It was reissued on CD by Verve in 1999.[3]
| Further Conversations with Myself | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | December 1967[1] | |||
| Recorded | August 9, 1967 | |||
| Venue | Webster Hall, New York City | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 35:03 | |||
| Label | Verve V6-8727 | |||
| Producer | Helen Keane | |||
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Reception
edit| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | |
Writing for AllMusic, music critic Scott Yanow called the album "A thoughtful and (despite the overdubbing) spontaneous sounding set of melodic music."[4] Peter Pettinger notes that it "opens with the arresting beauty of that new title in the Evans book, Johnny Mandel's 'Emily,' a fresh bloom that was to become a great favorite. The same composer's Academy Award-winning 'The Shadow of Your Smile,' from the 1965 film The Sandpiper, received a probing performance, one of the most concentrated of Evans's career, developing with increasing insistence and relentless pace .... By contrast, a stark emotional directness was brought to Denny Zeitlin's fine tune 'Quiet Now,' another Evans mainstay-in-the-making."[6]
Track listing
edit- "Emily" (Johnny Mandel, Johnny Mercer) - 4:56
- "Yesterdays" (Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern) - 3:50
- "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie) - 3:47
- "Funny Man" (Bill Evans) - 3:45
- "The Shadow of Your Smile (Love Theme from "The Sandpiper")" (Mandel, Paul Francis Webster) - 8:03
- "Little Lulu" (Buddy Kaye, Sidney Lippman, Fred Wise) - 2:50
- "Quiet Now" (Denny Zeitlin) - 7:53
Credits
edit- Bill Evans - overdubbed pianos
- Ray Hall - engineer
References
edit- ^ Dec 23, 1967 Billboard magazine
- ^ Pettinger, Peter, Bill Evans: How My Heart Sings, Yale University Press, 1998, pp. 186-87.
- ^ Verve Music Group web site entry.
- ^ a b Yanow, Scott. "Further Conversations with Myself > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved June 28, 2011.
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 457. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- ^ Pettinger, p. 186.