Bill Evans discography

The following is a listing of the jazz pianist Bill Evans' original albums. He recorded over 50 albums as a leader between 1956 and 1980 and also played as a sideman on nearly as many more. He broke new ground in many of his piano trio, duet and solo recordings. Several of those won or were nominated for Grammy Awards.

Discography

As leader

Compilations

As sideman

With Jerry Wald

• Jerry Wald and his Orchestra (1953)
• Listen to the Music of Jerry Wald (1955)

With Lucy Reed

• The Singing Reed (1955)

With Dick Garcia

• A Message from Garcia (1955)

With George Russell

• The Jazz Workshop (1956)
• Brandeis Jazz Festival (1957) with orchestra arranged and conducted by Russell & Gunther Schuller
• New York, N.Y. (1959)
• Jazz in the Space Age (1960)

With Tony Scott

• The Touch of Tony Scott (1956)
• The Complete Tony Scott (1956)
• The Modern Art of Jazz (1957)
• Free Blown Jazz (1957)
• My Kind of Jazz (1957)
• Golden Moments (1959)
• I'll Remember (1959)
• Sung Heroes (1959)

With Don Elliot

• Tenderly: An Informal Session (Milestone, 1956-7 [2001])
• Eddie Costa, Mat Mathews & Don Elliott at Newport (Verve, 1957)
• The Mello Sound of Don Elliot (Decca, 1958)

With Joe Puma

• Joe Puma Trio and Quartet (1957)

With Charles Mingus

• East Coasting (Bethlehem, 1957)

With Jimmy Knepper

• A Swinging Introduction to Jimmy Knepper (Bethlehem 1957)

With Sahib Shihab

• Jazz Sahib (Savoy, 1957)

With Idrees Sulieman

• Roots (New Jazz, 1957) with the Prestige All Stars

With Pepper Adams

• The Soul of Jazz Percussion (1960) features 3 tracks by the Donald Byrd-Pepper Adams Sextet with Evans, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones, and Earl Zindars

With Eddie Costa

• Guys and Dolls Like Vibes (1958)

With Helen Merrill

• The Nearness of You (1958)

With Hal McKusick

• Cross Section Saxes (1958)

With Miles Davis

• 1958 Miles (1958)
• Kind of Blue (1959)
• Jazz at the Plaza (1973)
• At Newport 1958 (2001)

With Michel Legrand

• Legrand Jazz (1958)

With Cannonball Adderley

• Portrait of Cannonball (1958)
• Jump for Joy (1958)
• Know What I Mean? (1961)

With Art Farmer

• Modern Art (United Artists, 1958)

With Chet Baker

• Chet Baker Introduces Johnny Pace (Riverside, 1958) [not credited]
• Chet (Riverside, 1959)
• Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe (Riverside, 1959)

With Bill Potts

• The Jazz Soul of Porgy and Bess (1959)

With Lee Konitz

• Live at the Half Note (Verve, 1959)
• Lee Konitz Meets Jimmy Giuffre (Verve, 1959) with Jimmy Giuffre
• You and Lee (Verve, 1959)

With Warne Marsh

• The Art of Improvising (Revelation, 1959 [1974])

With Manny Albam/Teo Macero

• Something New, Something Blue (1959)

With John Lewis

• Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
• Jazz Abstractions (1960) – with Gunther Schuller & Jim Hall

With Frank Minion

• The Soft Land of Make Believe (1960)

With Kai Winding

• The Great Kai & J. J. (1960) with J. J. Johnson
• The Incredible Kai Winding Trombones (1960)

With Oliver Nelson

• The Blues and the Abstract Truth (Impulse!, 1961)

With Mark Murphy

• Rah! (1961)

With Dave Pike

• Pike's Peak (Epic, 1962)

With Tadd Dameron

• The Magic Touch (Tadd Dameron album) (Riverside, 1961)

With Benny Golson

• Pop + Jazz = Swing (Audio Fidelity, 1961) – re-mixed version released as Just Jazz!

References

External links

• Jazz Discography entries for Bill Evans
• Discography At Allmusic
• The Bill Evans Memorial Library