New Conversations Explained

New Conversations
Type:	studio
Artist:	Bill Evans
Cover:	Newconversationsevans.jpg
Released:	1978
Recorded:	January 26 – February 16, 1978
Genre:	Jazz
Label:	Warner Bros.
Producer:	Helen Keane
Prev Title:	You Must Believe in Spring
Prev Year:	1977
Next Title:	Affinity
Next Year:	1978

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

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.

1. "Song for Helen" – 7:48
2. "Nobody Else but Me" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) – 4:38
3. "Maxine" – 4:40
4. "For Nenette" – 7:19
5. "I Love My Wife" (Cy Coleman, Michael Stewart) – 6:43
6. "Remembering the Rain" – 4:29
7. "After You" (Cole Porter) – 3:39
8. "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

External links

• The Bill Evans Memorial Library

Notes and References

1. Web site: Yanow . Scott . Scott Yanow . New Conversations Review . . July 22, 2011.