Interplay | |
Type: | studio |
Artist: | Bill Evans Trio |
Cover: | Interplay_Evans.jpg |
Released: | June 1963[1] |
Recorded: | July 16 & 17, 1962[2] |
Studio: | Sound Makers Studio, New York City |
Genre: | Jazz |
Length: | 45:27 |
Label: | Riverside |
Producer: | Orrin Keepnews |
Prev Title: | How My Heart Sings! |
Prev Year: | 1962 |
Next Title: | Empathy |
Next Year: | 1962 |
Interplay is a 1963 album by jazz musician Bill Evans. It was recorded in July 1962 in New York City for Riverside Records. The Interplay Sessions is a 1982 Milestone album that includes the entirety of this album, and tracks recorded for Riverside on August 21 and 22 of the same year with a different lineup (with Zoot Sims and Ron Carter, and without Freddie Hubbard and Percy Heath).The Interplay Sessions peaked at number 26 on the Billboard Jazz Albums charts in 1983. The CD reissue Interplay adds another take of "I'll Never Smile Again" as a bonus track. At the Grammy Awards of 1984, Orrin Keepnews won the Grammy Award for Best Album Notes for the reissue.
Writing for Allmusic, music critic Scott Yanow called the album "Excellent music."