This LP comprises highlights from Bill Evans' earliest studio recording sessions. By September 1956, at nearly 27-years old, Evans already had many studio recordings under his belt, and a lot of playing experience. However, that month marked the making of his first recordings to be issued under his own name, New Jazz Conception, a combination of trio and solo pieces. During a 1972 interview with Joe Vandyl, Evans expressed his opinion about those sessions: I still think that it was a good record at the time, as good as I could do and I still will listen to it without any misgivings; as you say, the influences were perhaps more marked. There were a lot of influences; some of the major ones might have been George Shearing, Bud Powell, of course, Nat Cole, Earl Hines and many players you never hear of. I think some of the main influences were the obvious people like Dizzy Gillespie, Miles, Stan Getz and Bird. It's like building an idiomatic language and a musical language, and you kind of take abstract principles, melodic, harmonic and rhythmic influences, and you put them together.
- Format: Vinyl
- Genre: Jazz
- Black Vinyl
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TRACKS
A1 I Love You
A2 Easy Living
A3 Displacement
A4 Waltz For Debby
A5 Autumn Leaves
A6 Spring Is Here
B1 Someday My Prince Will Come
B2 Tenderly
B3 What Is There To Say?
B4 Oleo
B5 Witchcraft
