Interplay (Bill Evans album) explained

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.

Reception

Writing for Allmusic, music critic Scott Yanow called the album "Excellent music."

Track listing

  1. "You and the Night and the Music" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) – 7:04
  2. "When You Wish upon a Star" (Leigh Harline, Ned Washington) – 5:45
  3. "I'll Never Smile Again" [take 7; original take] (Ruth Lowe) – 6:32
  4. "I'll Never Smile Again" [take 6] – 6:38 [on CD reissue only]
  5. "Interplay" (Bill Evans) – 8:14
  6. "You Go to My Head" (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie) – 5:06
  7. "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away)" (Harry Barris, Ted Koehler, Billy Moll) – 6:24

Personnel

References

  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=XwsEAAAAMBAJ&dq=Interplay+Bill+Evans&pg=PA40 June 22, 1963
  2. Web site: Jazz Discography Project . Bill Evans Catalog . Jazzdisco.org . February 15, 2011.

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