Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival explained

Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival
Type:	live
Artist:	Bill Evans
Cover:	billevansmontreux.jpg
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
Prev Title:	California Here I Come
Prev Year:	1967
Next Title:	Alone
Next Year:	1968

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 Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group.

Reception

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."

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

Legacy

Nardis in Track 5 was sampled by MF DOOM in "Raid" from his album, Madvillainy.^[1]

Discography

See main article: Bill Evans discography.

External links

Notes and References

Web site: Madvillainy by Madvillain: Album Samples, Covers and Remixes . WhoSampled.