Further Conversations with Myself

Further Conversations with Myself
Studio album by
Bill Evans
ReleasedDecember 1967[1]
RecordedAugust 9, 1967
VenueWebster Hall, New York City
GenreJazz
Length35:03
LabelVerve
V6-8727
ProducerHelen Keane
Bill Evans chronology
A Simple Matter of Conviction
(1966) 		Further Conversations with Myself
(1967) 		California Here I Come
(1967)

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]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic [4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[5]

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

  1. "Emily" (Johnny Mandel, Johnny Mercer) - 4:56
  2. "Yesterdays" (Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern) - 3:50
  3. "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie) - 3:47
  4. "Funny Man" (Bill Evans) - 3:45
  5. "The Shadow of Your Smile (Love Theme from "The Sandpiper")" (Mandel, Paul Francis Webster) - 8:03
  6. "Little Lulu" (Buddy Kaye, Sidney Lippman, Fred Wise) - 2:50
  7. "Quiet Now" (Denny Zeitlin) - 7:53

Credits

  • Bill Evans - overdubbed pianos
  • Ray Hall - engineer

References

  1. ^ Dec 23, 1967 Billboard magazine
  2. ^ Pettinger, Peter, Bill Evans: How My Heart Sings, Yale University Press, 1998, pp. 186-87.
  3. ^ Verve Music Group web site entry.
  4. ^ a b Yanow, Scott. "Further Conversations with Myself > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved June 28, 2011.
  5. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 457. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  6. ^ Pettinger, p. 186.