Bill Evans

Craft Recordings unveils Bill Evans Trio’s 'Explorations' as latest ‘Small Batch’ series release

Craft Recordings is proud to unveil the next installment in its acclaimed Small Batch series—a meticulously crafted reissue of the Bill Evans Trio’s final studio LP, Explorations. Arriving December 13, Explorations marks the seventh installment in the series, which has previously spotlighted jazz luminaries such as John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Thelonious Monk.

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BILL EVANS’ Posthumous Tour de Force, "YOU MUST BELIEVE IN SPRING"

Craft Recordings is proud to reissue You Must Believe in Spring, the celebrated 70th studio album from the pioneering jazz pianist Bill Evans. Recorded in 1977 and released in 1981, just months after Evans’ death, the album marks the artist’s final studio recording with bassist Eddie Gomez and drummer Eliot Zigmund and includes stunning performances of “We Will Meet Again (for Harry)” and “B Minor Waltz (for Ellaine).”

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BILL EVANS’ POSTHUMOUS TOUR DE FORCE, YOU MUST BELIEVE IN SPRING, SET FOR REISSUE

Craft Recordings is proud to reissue You Must Believe in Spring, the celebrated 70th studio album from the pioneering jazz pianist Bill Evans. Recorded in 1977 and released in 1981, just months after Evans’ death, the album marks the artist’s final studio recording with bassist Eddie Gomez and drummer Eliot Zigmund and includes stunning performances of “We Will Meet Again (for Harry)” and “B Minor Waltz (for Ellaine).”

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Bill Evans Another Time: The Hilversum Concert

Never-before-issued recording of the legendary Bill Evans trio featuring Eddie Gomez on bass and Jack DeJohnette on drums captured live at the NRU (Netherlands Radio Union) Studios in Hilversum on June 22, 1968. This is only the third known recording in existence of this particular trio, who only performed together as a trio for a 6-month period in 1968, and was originally recorded and broadcast on the radio program Jazz in Actie by Dutch producer Joop de Roo.

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Concord Releases Best of Monk, Evans, Brubeck, Adderley & Guaraldi

Concord Music Group is launching five new titles in its Very Best Of jazz series, which showcases some of the very best tracks culled from the recordings of some of the most influential artists in the history of the genre. The five new titles, which highlight the work of Dave Brubeck, Vince Guaraldi, The Bill Evans Trio, Thelonious Monk, and Cannonball Adderley, are set for release on August 7, 2012.