Quintessence (Bill Evans album)

Quintessence is an album by American jazz pianist Bill Evans. It was recorded in 1976 for Fantasy Records and released the following year. At this time usually playing solo or with his trio, for these sessions Evans was the leader of an all-star quintet featuring Harold Land on tenor saxophone, guitarist Kenny Burrell, Ray Brown on bass, and Philly Joe Jones on drums.

Evans had never previously worked with Land, Burrell, or Brown,^[1] but the quintet instrumentation, with tenor sax and guitar, mirrors that of the second Interplay session of 1962.^[2] One track, "The Second Time Around," is played by trio only. As with many Evans albums from this period, it includes a selection by Michel Legrand, in this case "Martina," which Barbra Streisand had recorded in 1965.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[5]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[4]

Writing for AllMusic, Scott Yanow called the album "a nice change of pace ... tasteful and explorative in a subtle way."^[3]

Biographer Keith Shadwick notes that Evans here "seems mostly concerned with being a pianist within a group rather than leading it by example, and the resulting album sounds very much a co-operative effort. ... Perhaps [Evans's] best and most concentrated playing comes on Thad Jones's ballad 'A Child Is Born' where he presents the first three minutes of the performance as a piano-trio arrangement, including a piano solo, before Kenny Burrell's entry." Shadwick also notes that even though the album did not "set out to make a Significant Statement," it was nonetheless "a relaxed and rewarding quintet session and one of the highlights in Evans's later recording career" and that the pun of the album's title is "typical of Evans's penchant for wordplay."^[6]

Track listing

"Sweet Dulcinea Blue" (Kenny Wheeler) – 6:02
"Martina" (Michel Legrand, Eddy Marnay, Hal Shaper) – 8:12
"Second Time Around" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn) – 3:41
"A Child Is Born" (Thad Jones, Alec Wilder) – 7:30
"Bass Face" (Kenny Burrell) – 10:04

CD reissue bonus track:

"Nobody Else but Me" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 7:27

Personnel

Technical personnel

Helen Keane – producer
Phil Kaffel – engineer
Phil DeLancie – remastering
Galen Rowell – cover photo
Phil Bray – booklet photos

Chart positions

Year	Chart	Position
1977	Billboard Jazz Albums^[7]	20

References

^ Pettinger, Peter, Bill Evans: How My Heart Sings, Yale University Press (1998), p. 240.
^ Shadwick, Keith, Bill Evans: Everything Happens to Me, Back Beat Books (2002), p. 170.
^ ^a ^b Yanow, Scott. "Quintessence > Review". AllMusic. Retrieved June 28, 2011.
^ Swenson, John, ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. New York: Random House/Rolling Stone Press. p. 73. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 458. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
^ Shadwick, p. 170.
^ "Billboard Best Selling Jazz LPs". Billboard. Vol. 89, no. 40. October 8, 1977. p. 94. Retrieved August 19, 2022.

External links

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Discography
Studio albums	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 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 Trio 64 Stan Getz & Bill Evans Waltz for Debby Trio '65 Bill Evans Trio with Symphony Orchestra Intermodulation A Simple Matter of Conviction Further Conversations with Myself Alone What's New From Left to Right Quiet Now The Bill Evans Album Living Time Eloquence Symbiosis Intuition The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album Alone (Again) Quintessence Together Again Crosscurrents I Will Say Goodbye You Must Believe in Spring New Conversations Affinity We Will Meet Again
Live albums	Sunday at the Village Vanguard Waltz for Debby Time Remembered At Shelly's Manne-Hole Bill Evans at Town Hall The Bill Evans Trio "Live" California Here I Come Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival Jazzhouse You're Gonna Hear from Me Montreux II The Tokyo Concert Half Moon Bay Since We Met Re: Person I Knew But Beautiful Blue in Green: The Concert in Canada Montreux III Getting Sentimental Live in Buenos Aires 1979 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
Compilation albums	Piano Player
Compositions	"Waltz for Debby" "Funkallero" "Blue in Green" "Flamenco Sketches" "Time Remembered" "Peace Piece"
Band members	Monty Budwig Larry Bunker Jack DeJohnette Eddie Gómez Chuck Israels Marc Johnson Philly Joe Jones Sam Jones Teddy Kotick Joe LaBarbera Scott LaFaro Michael Moore Marty Morell Paul Motian Gary Peacock
Associated musicians	Cannonball Adderley Chet Baker Tony Bennett Bob Brookmeyer Kenny Burrell Ron Carter Miles Davis Stan Getz Jim Hall Freddie Hubbard Lee Konitz Harold Land Shelly Manne Warne Marsh Claus Ogerman George Russell Zoot Sims Toots Thielemans Monica Zetterlund
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