New Conversations

1978 studio album by Bill Evans

New Conversations

Studio album by

Bill Evans

Released

1978

Recorded

January 26 – February 16, 1978

Genre

Jazz

Label

Warner Bros.

Producer

Helen Keane

Bill Evans chronology

Crosscurrents
(1978)

New Conversations
(1978)

Affinity
(1979)

New Conversations is an album by the American jazz pianist Bill Evans, released in 1978.

New Conversations is Evans' third and final release in which he overdubs different piano tracks with his previously played track. The first release recorded in this manner was Conversations with Myself (1963) followed by Further Conversations with Myself (1967).

A noteworthy difference in this release is that Evans plays the Fender Rhodes electric piano as well as his customary acoustic piano.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[3]

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album three out of five stars saying "The results are less memorable than one might expect for Bill Evans seemed always at his best in trio settings."^[1]

Track listing

All songs by Bill Evans unless otherwise noted.

"Song for Helen" – 7:48
"Nobody Else but Me" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) – 4:38
"Maxine" – 4:40
"For Nenette" – 7:19
"I Love My Wife" (Cy Coleman, Michael Stewart) – 6:43
"Remembering the Rain" – 4:29
"After You" (Cole Porter) – 3:39
"Reflections in D" (Duke Ellington) – 7:00

Personnel

Bill Evans – piano and Fender Rhodes electric piano

Production

Helen Keane – producer
Frank Laico – engineer, mixing
Nat Hentoff – liner notes

Chart positions

Year	Chart	Position
1978	Billboard Jazz Albums	35

References

^ ^a ^b Yanow, Scott. "New Conversations Review". AllMusic. Retrieved July 22, 2011.
^ Swenson, John, ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. New York: Random House/Rolling Stone Press. p. 74. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 458. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.