Bill Evans

 Artist:  Bill Evans  

Birth Name:  William John Evans
Born:  August 16, 1929.  Plainfield, New Jersey, USA
Died:  September 15, 1980 (Aged 51).  New York City, New York, USA
Genre:  Jazz, Modal Jazz, Cool Jazz, Post Bop, Jazz Instrument, Piano Jazz
Occupation:  Musician, Composer, Arranger
Instruments:  Piano

Bill Evans was an American Jazz Pianist and Composer who mostly worked in a Trio setting.  He worked with bandleader and theorist George Russell.  In 1958, he joined Miles Davis's sextet, and recorded Kind Of Blue, the best-selling Jazz Album of All Time.  In 1959, he left the Miles Davis band and began his career as a leader with Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian.  In 1961, recording the highly acclaimed Sunday At The Village Vanguard and Waltz For Debby.  In 1963, he recorded Conversations With Myself, an innovative solo album.  He has become standards and has been played and recorded by many artists.  He was honored with 31 Grammy nominations and seven awards, and was inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall Of Fame.

Artist:  Bill Evans with Symphony Orchestra

Title:  Symbiosis  (2021)

Genre:  Jazz, Modal Jazz, Cool Jazz, Post Bop, Jazz Instrument, Piano Jazz

Label:  MPS Records

Rating:   *****

Format:  LP

Tracks:

Side 1:

 1.  Symbiosis 1st Movement  (24:58)

Side 2:

 2.  Symbiosis 2nd Movement  (15:55)

Personnel:

The Bill Evans Trio:

Bill Evans:  Piano, Electric Piano, Fender Rhodes

Eddie Gomez:  Bass

Marty Morell:  Drums

Claus Ogerman:  Conductor

Phil Woods, Jerry Dodgion, Walt Levinsky:  Alto Saxophones

Marvin Stamm, Johnny Froak, Bernie Glow, Marky Markowitz, Victor Paz, Mel Davis:  Trumpets

Paul Faulise, Tom Mitchell:  Bass Trombones

Urbie Green:  Tenor Saxophone

Bill Stapin, Don Hammond, Hubert Laws:  Flutes

Don Butterfield: Tuba

George Marge, Phil Bodner:  Oboes

Danny Bank, Ron Janelly:  Clarinets & Bass Clarinets

Wally Kane, Don MacCourt:  Contra Bassoon

Brooks Tillotson, James Buttington, Earl Capin, Peter Gordon, Al Richmond, Ray Alonge:  French Horns

George Devens, Dave Carey, Doug Allen:  Percussion

Ralph McDonald:  Conga

Symbiosis is an Album by Bill Evans Trio with Symphony Orchestra, originally released in 1974 by MPS Records, remastered and reissued on September 3, 2021 by MPS Records.  180 Gram Vinyl.