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Alone is an album by jazz musician Bill Evans, recorded in late-1968 for Verve Records.

Alone
Studio album by Bill Evans
Released	April 1970
Recorded	September 23, 1968 October 8 & 21, 1968 Webster Hall, New York City
Genre	Jazz
Length	35:07 original LP
Label	Verve V6-8792
Producer	Helen Keane
Bill Evans chronology
What's New (1969) Alone (1970) Montreux II (1970)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[1]

Background

Alone was recorded at Webster Hall in the East Village, which was reserved for two recording sessions in October of 1968. A Steinway & Sons concert grand piano model D-274 was chosen by Bill Evans for this recording.

Release

Released in April 1970 [2] , the Grammy Award-winning Alone was Bill Evans' first single piano solo album following in the footsteps of his 1963 Verve session Conversations with Myself (three pianos overdubbed) and his 1967 Further Conversations with Myself, also on Verve (two pianos overdubbed). It has been reissued in various forms with additional tracks and alternate takes from sessions on September 23, October 8 and 21st.[3]

Track listing

1. "Here's That Rainy Day" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke) – 5:21
2. "A Time for Love" (Johnny Mandel, Paul Francis Webster) – 5:06
3. "Midnight Mood" (Joe Zawinul, Ben Raleigh) – 5:20
4. "On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever)" (Burton Lane, Alan Jay Lerner) – 4:48
5. "Never Let Me Go" (Ray Evans, Jay Livingston) – 14:32

Additional tracks on 1988 CD reissue:

6. "Medley: All the Things You Are/Midnight Mood" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II)/(Joe Zawinul, Ben Raleigh) – 4:11
7. "A Time for Love" (Johnny Mandel, Paul Francis Webster) – 6:56

The 2002 CD reissue includes other alternate takes.

Personnel

• Bill Evans – piano

Technical

• Helen Keane – producer
• Val Valentin – director of engineering
• Roy Hall – engineer
• Sid Maurer – art direction
• Nancy Reiner – cover art
• Mickey Leonard – supervising consultant

[4]

References

External links

• Jazz Discography Bill Evans Catalog
• Bill Evans Memorial Library

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