New Jazz Conceptions
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| Studio album by Bill Evans | ||||||||||
| Released | 1956 | |||||||||
| Recorded | September 18 and 27, 1956 New York City |
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| Genre | Jazz | |||||||||
| Length | 41:42 49:56 CD reissue |
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| Label | Riverside RLP 12-223 |
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| Producer | Bill Grauer, Orrin Keepnews | |||||||||
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New Jazz Conceptions is the debut album as leader by jazz musician Bill Evans, released in 1956 on Riverside Records.
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[edit] History
Producer Orrin Keepnews of Riverside Records first determined to record Evans after hearing a tape of Evans' playing. Eleven songs were recorded in the first session, including Evans' own "Waltz for Debby" which would prove to be his most recognized and covered composition.[1]
New Jazz Conceptions was reissued in 2006 with a bonus track.
[edit] Reception
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| All About Jazz | (no rating) [2] |
| Allmusic |   [3] |
Although a critical success that gained positive reviews in Down Beat and Metronome magazines, New Jazz Conceptions was initially a financial failure, selling only 800 copies the first year.[1]
Writing for Allmusic, music critic Scott Yanow called the album "Bill Evans' debut as a leader found the 27-year-old pianist already sounding much different than the usual Bud Powell-influenced keyboardists of the time... A strong start to a rather significant career."[3] David Rickert of All About Jazz also noted the influence of Bud Powell and wrote "Even at this stage he had the chops to make this a good piano jazz album, but in the end it's not a very good Bill Evans album... There are glimpses of the later trademarks of Evans' style..."[2]
[edit] Track listing
- "I Love You" (Cole Porter) – 3:55
- "Five" (Bill Evans) – 4:03
- "I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)" (Duke Ellington, Paul Francis Webster) – 1:39
- "Conception" (George Shearing) – 4:47
- "Easy Living" (Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger) – 3:53
- "Displacement" (Evans) – 2:36
- "Speak Low" (Kurt Weill, Ogden Nash) – 5:10
- "Waltz for Debby" (Evans, Gene Lees) – 1:20
- "Our Delight" (Tadd Dameron) – 4:47
- "My Romance" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 2:01
- "No Cover, No Minimum" [Take 1] (Evans) – 8:14 Not part of original LP
- "No Cover, No Minimum" – 7:31
[edit] Personnel
- Bill Evans - Piano
- Teddy Kotick - Bass
- Paul Motian - Drums
[edit] Production
- Orrin Keepnews - Producer
- Bill Grauer - Producer
- Jack Higgins - Engineer
- Tamaki Beck - Mastering
[edit] References
- ^ a b Bill Evan biography. All About Jazz. Joel Simpson. Accessed January 2009.
- ^ a b Rickert, David. "New Jazz Conceptions > Review". All About Jazz. http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=13721. Retrieved June 28, 2011.
- ^ a b Yanow, Scott. "New Jazz Conceptions > Review". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r138443. Retrieved June 28, 2011.
