You Must Believe in Spring

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Another thing Evans once said is, “I have a reason that I arrive at myself for every note I play.” One would have known that without him saying it, merely by sitting him down at a piano. But... — Downbeat, June 2022 More…

Release Date: 3rd Jun 2022
Catalogue No: 7243691
Label: Craft Recordings
Length: 58 minutes

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Evans, B: B Minor Waltz

Work length3:17

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Bill Evans (piano), Eliot Zigmund (upright bass), Eddie Gomez (drums)
Recorded: 2022

Marilyn Bergman, Michel Legrand, Alan Bergman, Jacques Demy: You Must Believe In Spring

Work length5:44

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Bill Evans (piano), Eliot Zigmund (upright bass), Eddie Gomez (drums)
Recorded: 2022-01-01

Gary McFarland: Gary's Theme

Work length4:21

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Bill Evans (piano), Eliot Zigmund (upright bass), Eddie Gomez (drums)
Recorded: 2022-01-01

Bill Evans, Karen Gallinger: We Will Meet Again

Work length4:04

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Bill Evans (piano), Eliot Zigmund (upright bass), Eddie Gomez (drums)
Recorded: 2022-01-01

Rowles: The Peacocks

Work length6:02

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Bill Evans (piano), Eliot Zigmund (upright bass), Eddie Gomez (drums)
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Sergio Mihanovich: Sometime Ago

Work length4:38

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Bill Evans (piano), Eliot Zigmund (upright bass), Eddie Gomez (drums)
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Michael Altman, Johnny Mandel: Theme From M*A*S*H (Suicide Is Painless)

Work length5:58

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Bill Evans (piano), Eliot Zigmund (upright bass), Eddie Gomez (drums)
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Youmans: Without a Song

Work length8:09

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Bill Evans (piano), Eliot Zigmund (upright bass), Eddie Gomez (drums)
Recorded: 2022-01-01

Davis, M: Freddie Freeloader

Work length7:39

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Bill Evans (piano), Eliot Zigmund (upright bass), Eddie Gomez (drums)
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Porter, C: All Of You

Work length8:12

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Bill Evans (piano), Eliot Zigmund (upright bass), Eddie Gomez (drums)
Recorded: 2022

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Recording of the Week, Bill Evans, 'You Must Believe In Spring'

17th June 2022

A reissue of the much-loved posthumous Bill Evans album on Craft Recordings gives us the perfect excuse to revisit his late-career classic, You Must Believe In Spring.

One of the most influential artists in the history of jazz, Bill Evans (1929–1980) was known for his conversational interplay within his trios, his lyrical compositions and his matchless approach to the piano. His work with Gomez and Zigmund on You Must Believe in Spring offers a brilliant example of all three. At the time that they recorded the album, in August 1977, this particular iteration of the Bill Evans Trio had reached their apex, after three busy years of live performances and studio outings (including 1977’s Crosscurrents and I Will Say Goodbye). Speaking to Marc Myers, Zigmund recalls, “we had reached a high level of conversational playing … by Spring, we captured that ease of relating to each other.”

Recorded over three days at Hollywood’s famed Capitol Studios, the album paired Evans with the legendary producer Tommy Lipuma, whose extensive credits included Barbra Streisand, George Benson and Natalie Cole, among many others. Together, they selected an introspective collection of material which, notes Marc Myers, gave the album “a gentle, melancholy feel and a music-box tenderness.” Among them were two deeply personal Evans originals: “B Minor Waltz (For Ellaine),” composed in the memory of the pianist’s late common-law wife, Ellaine Shultz, and “We Will Meet Again (For Harry),” written for the artist’s late brother. Two years later, Evans would revisit the latter composition, designating it as the title track of his final studio recording.

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Another thing Evans once said is, “I have a reason that I arrive at myself for every note I play.” One would have known that without him saying it, merely by sitting him down at a piano. But it’s on full display here.

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