Bill Evans Quintet - Interplay (2010) {Analogue Productions 45rpm 180g} 24-bit/96kHz Vinyl Rip plus Redbook CD Version

is a 1962 album by jazz musician Bill Evans. It was recorded on July 16–17, 1962 in NYC for Riverside Records. peaked at #26 on the Billboard Jazz Albums charts in 1983. The 1983 CD reissue 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. Bill Evans had recorded only sparsely with horn players when this session was cut in 1962. His performance on Miles Davis' had portended a certain minimal presence when playing with horns, but defies the earlier recording's hints with particularly strong playing. He's perhaps egged on by Philly Joe Jones, who seemed always able to throw Evans into overdrive (just listen to the Secret Sessions for plentiful confirmation of this). Here, you have Jones pushing Evans, and guitarist Jim Hall adding harmonic depth and brittle latticework around the edges while trumpeter Freddie Hubbard joins in the fray. The instrument mix is odd, but Hubbard plays lyrically enough that he sounds snug in Evans' ever-surprising chord voicings. As for Hall, he sounds genteel and then engaged and then snapping as the band pushes hard on several standards. Professional ratings Allmusic 4/5 stars

Track listing

Side One

1. "You and the Night and the Music" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) – 7:04

Side Two

2. "When You Wish upon a Star" (Leigh Harline, Ned Washington) – 5:45
3. "I'll Never Smile Again" (Ruth Lowe) – 6:32

Side Three

4. "Interplay" (Bill Evans) – 8:14

Side Four

5. "You Go to My Head" (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie) – 5:06
6. "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away)" (Harry Barris, Ted Koehler, Billy Moll) – 6:24


Released 1962
Recorded July 16-17 and August 21, 1962 in New York City
Genre Jazz
Length 39:05
Label Riverside/Analogue Productions
Producer Orrin Keepnews

Personnel

* Bill Evans - piano
* Percy Heath - bass
* Philly Joe Jones - drums
* Jim Hall - guitar
* Freddie Hubbard - trumpet







The Bill Evans Riverside Recordings box set includes:

New Jazz Conceptions
Everybody Digs Bill Evans
Portrait In Jazz
Know What I Mean?
Explorations
Sunday At The Village Vanguard
Waltz For Debby
Moon Beams
How My Heart Sings!
Interplay
At Shelly's Manne-Hole, Hollywood