Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival

1968 live album by Bill Evans

Live album by

Bill Evans

Released

1968 (see 1968 in music)

Recorded

June 15, 1968

Venue

Montreux Jazz Festival, Casino de Montreux, Switzerland

Genre

Jazz

Length

58:59

Label

Verve

Producer

Helen Keane

Bill Evans chronology

Further Conversations with Myself
(1967)

Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival
(1968)

What's New
(1969)

Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival is a 1968 album by the American jazz pianist Bill Evans, recorded live at that year's Montreux Jazz Festival. The trio's performance on this album won them the 1969 Grammy for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[2]

Writing for Allmusic, music critic Rovi Staff wrote the album "marks the beginning of stylistic changes for the legendary pianist. Only one year earlier, his At Town Hall release found his approach generally more introspective and brooding. In contrast, this set is more lively, playful, and experimental... He experiments more with harmonic dissonance and striking rhythmical contrasts, making this his most extroverted playing since his freshman release, New Jazz Conceptions."^[1]

Track listing

"Spoken Introduction" – 0:57
"One for Helen" (Bill Evans) – 4:22
"A Sleepin' Bee" (Harold Arlen, Truman Capote) – 6:05
"Mother of Earl" (Earl Zindars) – 5:14
"Nardis" (Miles Davis) – 8:23
"Quiet Now" (Denny Zeitlin) – 6:26
"I Loves You, Porgy" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) – 6:00
"The Touch of Your Lips" (Ray Noble) – 4:45
"Embraceable You" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 6:45
"Some Day My Prince Will Come" (Frank Churchill, Larry Morey) – 6:08
"Walkin' Up" (Evans) – 3:34

Personnel

Bill Evans - piano
Eddie Gómez - double bass
Jack DeJohnette - drums

Legacy

Nardis in Track 5 was sampled by MF DOOM in "Raid" from his album, Madvillainy.^[3]

Discography

References

^ ^a ^b Staff, Rovi. "Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved June 28, 2011.
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 457. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
^ "Madvillainy by Madvillain: Album Samples, Covers and Remixes". WhoSampled.