Conversations With Myself

by Bill Evans

Conversations With Myself cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: August 1963
  • Label: Verve
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 43:36
  • Community rating: 3.51/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Utilizing overdubbing technology to harmonize with his own recordings, Bill Evans creates a breathtaking, multi-layered piano trio consisting entirely of himself. It is a highly intimate, bittersweet masterwork of solitary introspection.

Genres

Descriptors: improvisation, acoustic, instrumental, unaccompanied-solo

Tracklist

  1. 'Round Midnight (6:33)
  2. How About You? (2:48)
  3. Love Theme From 'Spartacus' (5:08)
  4. Blue Monk (4:32)
  5. Stella By Starlight (4:50)
  6. Hey There (4:28)
  7. N.Y.C.'s No Lark (5:34)
  8. Just You, Just Me (2:35)
  9. Bemsha Swing (2:54)
  10. A Sleeping Bee (4:10)

Credits

  • Bill Evans - primary artist, liner notes, piano, written-by
  • Ray Hall - engineer
  • Val Valentin - engineer [director of engineering]
  • Gene Lees - liner notes
  • Roy DeCarava - photography by, photography
  • Creed Taylor - producer
  • Bernie Hanighen - written-by
  • Cootie Williams - written-by
  • Thelonious Monk - written-by
  • Burton Lane - written-by
  • Ralph Freed - written-by
  • Alex North - written-by
  • Ned Washington - written-by
  • Victor Young - written-by
  • Jerry Ross - written-by
  • Richard Adler - written-by
  • Jesse Greer - written-by
  • Raymond Klages - written-by

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