Bill Evans - The Complete Riverside Recordings (12CD)

CD1
New Jazz Conceptions
with Teddy Kotick (b); Paul Motian (dr)
Recorded September 1956

01 - I Love You
02 - Five
03 - Conception
04 - Easy Living
05 - Displacement
06 - Speak Low
07 - Our Delight
08 - No Cover, No Minimum (take 1-Alternate)
09 - No Cover, No Minimum (take 2-Originally Issued)
10 - I’ve Got It Bad (And That Ain’t Good)
11 - Waltz For Debby        play
12 - My Romance             play
13 - Minority
14 - Young And Foolish
15 - Night & Day
16 – Oleo

CD2 
Everybody Digs Bill Evans
with Sam Jones (b); Philly Joe Jones (dr)
Recorded December 1958

01 - Tenderly                  play
02 - What Is There To Say?
03 - Peace Piece
04 - Lucky To Be Me
05 - Some Other Time
06 - Epilogue
07 - You & The Night & The Music
08 - How Am I To Know?
09 - Woody’n You (Take 1)
10 - Woody’n You (Take 2)
11 - My Heart Stood Still
12 - Green Dolphin Street
13 - Peri’s Scope              play
14 – Witchcraft

CD3 
Portrait In Jazz
with Scott LaFaro (b); Paul Motian (dr)
Recorded December 1959

01 - Spring Is Here
02 - What Is This Thing Called Love?
03 - Come Rain Or Come Shine                     play
04 - Blue In Green (Take 2-Previously Unissued)  play
05 - Blue In Green (Take 3-Originally Issued)
06 - Autumn Leaves (Mono)
07 - Autumn Leaves (Stereo)
08 - Some Day My Prince Will Come
09 - When I Fall In Love
10 - Elsa
11 - Sweet & Lovely
12 - Beautiful Love (Take 1-Previously Unissued)
13 - Beautiful Love (Take 2-Originally Issued)

CD4 
Explorations
with Scott LaFaro (b); Paul Motian (dr)
Recorded February 1961

01 - I Wish I Knew
02 - The Boy Next Door
03 - Haunted Heart                         play
04 - Nardis
05 - How Deep Is The Ocean?
06 - Israel
07 - Who Cares? (Take 4-Previously Unissued)
08 - Who Cares? (Take 5-Originally Issued)
09 - Goodbye
10 - Nancy (With The Laughing Face)
11 - Toy
12 - Elsa
13 - Waltz For Debby
14 – Venice                               play

CD5 
Sunday At the VIllage Vanguard
with Scott LaFaro (b); Paul Motian (dr)
Recorded June 1961

01 - Know What I Mean? (Take 12-Alternate)
02 - Know What I Mean? (Take Re-7-Originally Issued)  play
03 - Alice In Wonderland (Take 1-Alternate)
04 - My Foolish Heart                                 play
05 - All of You (Take 1-Previously Unissued)
06 - My Romance (Take 1-Originally Issued)
07 - Some Other Time
08 - Solar
09 - Gloria’s Step (Take 2-Originally Issued)
10 - My Man’s Gone Now

CD6 
Waltz For Debby
with Scott LaFaro (b); Paul Motian (dr)
Recorded June 1961

1. All of You (Take 2-Originally Issued)
2. Detour Ahead (Take 1-Alternate)
3. Waltz For Debby (Take 1-Alternate)
4. Alice In Wonderland (Take 2-Originally Issued)
5. Porgy (I Loves You, Porgy)
6. My Romance Take 2-Alternate)
7. Milestones                                        play
8. Detour Ahead (Take 2-Originally Issued)
9. Gloria’s Step (Take 3-Alternate)

CD7 
Moon Beams
with Chuck Israels (b); Paul Motian (dr)
Recorded May-June 1962

01 - Waltz For Debby (Take 2-Originally Issued)
02 - All of You (Take 3-Alternate)
03 - Jade Visions (Take 1-Alternate)
04 - Jade Visions (Take 2-Originally Issued)       play
05 - ...A Few Final Bars
06 - Danny Boy
07 - Like Someone In Love
08 - In Your Own Sweet Way                         play
09 - Easy to Love
10 - How My Heart Sings
11 - Summertime
12 - If You Could See Me Now
13 - Walking Up

CD8 
How My Heart Sings!
with Chuck Israels (b); Paul Motian (dr)
Recorded May-June 1962

01 - Very Early
02 - Show-Type Tune
03 - Re: Person I Knew
04 - 34 Skidoo
05 - Palkadots & Moonbeams
06 - I Should Care
07 - I Fall in Love Too Easily                      play
08 - Ev’rything I Love                              play
09 - In Love In Vain
10 - Stairway to the Stars
11 - In Your Own Sweet Way (Take 1-Originally Issued)
12 - In Your Own Sweet Way (Take 2-Previously Unissued)
13 - It Might As Well Be Spring

CD9 
Interplay
with Freddie Hubbard (tr); Jim Hall (g); Percy Heath (b); Philly Joe Jones (dr)
Recorded July 1962

01 - Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams
02 - When You Wish Upon A Star
03 - You Go To My Head
04 - You & The Night & The Music
05 - Interplay
06 - I’ll Never Smile Again (Take Re-6-Previously Unissued)
07 - I’ll Never Smile Again (Take Re-7-Originally Issued)
08 - Loose Bloose (Take 3)
09 - Loose Bloose (Takes 2 & 4)
10 - Fudgesickle Built For Four                         play
11 - Times Remembered

CD10 
At Shelly’s Manne Hole
with Chuck Israels (b); Larry Bunker (dr)
Recorded May 1963

01 - Funkallero
02 - My Bells
03 - There Came You
04 - Run Ride
05 - What Kind Of Fool Am I? (Take 1)
06 - My Favorite Things/Easy To Love/Baubles, Bangles & Beads
07 - When I Fall In Love                       play
08 - ‘Spartacus’ Love Theme/Nardis
09 - Everything Happens To Me
10 - April In Paris

CD11 
The Solo Sessions Volume 1
Recorded January 1963

01 - All The Things You Are
02 - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
03 - I Loves You, Porgy
04 - What Kind Of Fool Am I? (Take 2)
05 - Love Is Here To Stay                       play
06 - Ornithology
07 - Autumn In New York/How About You?
08 - All The Things You Are
09 - Lover Man
10 - Love Is Here To Say                        play
11 - Stella By Starlight

CD12 
The Solo Sessions Volume 2
Recorded January 1963 .

01 - ‘Round Midnight
02 - Who Cares?
03 - The Boy Next Door
04 - Isn’t It Romantic?
05 - What Is This Thing Called Love?
06 - How About You?                            play
07 - Blues In F/Five
08 - Everything Happens To Me
09 - In A Sentimental Mood
10 - My Heart Stood Still
11 - Time Remembered
12 - Wonder Why
13 - Swedish Pastry

Musicians:

Cannonball Adderley - Leader, Sax (Alto)
Ray Brown - Bass
Larry Bunker - Drums
Kenny Burrell - Guitar
Ron Carter - Bass
Paul Chambers - Bass
Bill Evans - Piano
Eddie Gómez - Bass
Jim Hall - Guitar
Percy Heath - Bass
Freddie Hubbard - Trumpet
Chuck Israels - Bass
Philly Joe Jones - Drums
Sam Jones - Bass
Connie Kay - Drums
Lee Konitz - Sax (Alto)
Teddy Kotick - Bass
Scott LaFaro - Bass
Harold Land - Sax (Tenor)
Paul Motian - Drums
Zoot Sims - Sax (Tenor)
Eliot Zigmund – Drums

18 LPs on 12 CDs recorded 1956 to 1963. The set includes 151 performances in chronological order, including the entire existing output of the legendary 1961 Village Vanguard sessions, as well as 17 selections from a previously unissued solo studio session and 7 other unreleased items. This boxed set also comes with a 32-page illustrated booklet including rare photos, full discographical details, an appreciation of Evans by critic Martin Williams, and personal commentary on each session by producer Orrin Keepnews.

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