The Bill Evans Album

The Bill Evans Album
Studio album by Bill Evans
Released	End of August/early September 1971[1]
Recorded	May 11-12, 17, 19-20 and June 9, 1971 CBS 30th Street Studio, New York City
Genre	Jazz
Length	70:27
Label	Columbia C 30855
Producer	Helen Keane
Bill Evans chronology
Montreux II (1970) The Bill Evans Album (1971) Living Time (1972)

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The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[2]

The Bill Evans Album is an album by the jazz pianist Bill Evans, released in 1971.

At the Grammy Awards of 1972, The Bill Evans Album won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Solo and the Best Jazz Performance by a Group awards.

The Bill Evans Memorial Library states it is the first recording in which Evans used a Fender Rhodes piano.^[3]

The Bill Evans Album was reissued with three bonus alternative tracks by Sony in 2005.

Track listing

All songs by Bill Evans unless otherwise noted.

1. "Funkallero (Album Version)" – 7:45
2. "Two Lonely People" (Bill Evans, Carol Hall) – 6:10
3. "Sugar Plum (Album Version)" – 7:02
4. "Waltz For Debby" (Evans, Lees) – 7:41
5. "T.T.T. (Twelve Tone Tune)" – 6:38
6. "Re: Person I Knew" – 5:52
7. "Comrade Conrad (Album Version)" - 7:34

   2005 reissue bonus tracks:

8. "Waltz for Debby" [alternate take] (Evans, Gene Lees) – 7:47
9. "Re: Person I Knew" [alternate take] – 7:16
10. "Funkallero" [alternate take] – 6:09

Credits

• Bill Evans - piano, fender rhodes
• Eddie Gómez – bass
• Marty Morell – drums

Production notes

• Helen Keane – producer
• Peter Weiss – engineer, mixing
• Orrin Keepnews – reissue producer
• Mark Wilder – remastering
• John Berg – art direction
• Fred Binkley – liner notes
• Don Hunstein – photography
• Seth Rothstein – project director
• Paula Wood – art direction, design

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