Bill Evans Trio with Symphony Orchestra

1966 studio album by The Bill Evans Trio

Studio album by

The Bill Evans Trio

Released

1966

Recorded

October and December 1965

Studio

Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

Genre

Jazz

Length

37:28

Label

Verve

Producer

Creed Taylor

The Bill Evans Trio chronology

Trio '65
(1965)

Bill Evans Trio with Symphony Orchestra
(1966)

Bill Evans at Town Hall
(1966)

Bill Evans Trio with Symphony Orchestra is an album by American jazz pianist Bill Evans and his trio, released in 1966. The group is accompanied by an orchestra arranged and conducted by Claus Ogerman.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Down Beat (Original Lp release)	^[1]
Allmusic	^[2]
All About Jazz	(favorable) ^[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[4]

Scott Yanow stated in his Allmusic review: "This collaboration... is predictably dull... one of Bill Evans' least significant recordings, a weak third stream effort."^[2] In contrast, Roger Crane states in his All About Jazz review "Although dismissed by some critics, this CD, with arrangements by Claus Ogermann, is very lovely. Evans was very proud of this album. Ogermann's charts are sweetly romantic rather than overbearing, and this gives Evans and his trio (with bassist Chuck Israels and drummer Grady Tate) room to maneuver. Evans' composition "My Bells" is one of the stronger cuts."^[3]

Track listing

"Granadas" (after The Maiden and the Nightingale by Enrique Granados) – 5:54
"Valse" (after the 2nd movement Siciliano of the flute sonata BWV 1031 by Johann Sebastian Bach) – 5:52
"Prelude" (Alexander Scriabin) – 3:01
"Time Remembered" (Bill Evans) – 4:10
"Pavane" (Gabriel Fauré) – 4:01
"Elegia (Elegy)" (Claus Ogerman) – 5:12
"My Bells" (Evans) – 3:48
"Blue Interlude" (Frédéric Chopin) – 6:04

Personnel

Bill Evans – piano
Chuck Israels – bass
Larry Bunker – drums
Grady Tate – drums (some sources state that Tate performed on the album but he is not credited in the CD booklet) ^[5]
Unidentified strings, woodwinds and brass arranged and conducted by Claus Ogerman^[6]

Production

Creed Taylor – producer
Rudy Van Gelder – recording engineer ^[5]

References

^ Down Beat: April 21, 1966 Vol. 33, No. 8
^ ^a ^b Yanow, Scott. "Bill Evans Trio with Symphony Orchestra > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved June 26, 2011.
^ ^a ^b Crane, Roger. "Bill Evans Trio with Symphony Orchestra > Review". All About Jazz. Retrieved June 26, 2011.
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 460. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
^ ^a ^b Liner notes to Verve CD 821 983-2
^ jazzdisco.org