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Bill Evans Trio with Symphony Orchestra is an album by American jazz pianist Bill Evans and his trio, released in 1966. The group is accompanied by an orchestra arranged and conducted by Claus Ogerman.

Bill Evans Trio with Symphony Orchestra
Studio album by The Bill Evans Trio
Released	1966
Recorded	October and December 1965
Studio	Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Genre	Jazz
Length	37:28
Label	Verve
Producer	Creed Taylor
The Bill Evans Trio chronology
Trio '65 (1965) Bill Evans Trio with Symphony Orchestra (1966) Bill Evans at Town Hall (1966)

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Down Beat (Original Lp release)	[1]
Allmusic	[2]
All About Jazz	(favorable) [3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[4]

Scott Yanow stated in his Allmusic review: "This collaboration is predictably dull... one of Bill Evans' least significant recordings, a weak third stream effort."[2] In contrast, Roger Crane states in his All About Jazz review "Although dismissed by some critics, this CD, with arrangements by Claus Ogermann, is very lovely. Evans was very proud of this album. Ogermann's charts are sweetly romantic rather than overbearing, and this gives Evans and his trio (with bassist Chuck Israels and drummer Grady Tate) room to maneuver. Evans' composition "My Bells" is one of the stronger cuts."[3]

Track listing

1. "Granadas" (after The Maiden and the Nightingale by Enrique Granados) – 5:54
2. "Valse" (after the 2nd movement Siciliano of the flute sonata BWV 1031 by Johann Sebastian Bach) – 5:52
3. "Prelude" (Alexander Scriabin) – 3:01
4. "Time Remembered" (Bill Evans) – 4:10
5. "Pavane" (Gabriel Fauré) – 4:01
6. "Elegia (Elegy)" (Claus Ogerman) – 5:12
7. "My Bells" (Evans) – 3:48
8. "Blue Interlude" (Frédéric Chopin) – 6:04

Personnel

• Bill Evans – piano
• Chuck Israels – bass
• Larry Bunker – drums
• Grady Tate – drums (some sources state that Tate performed on the album but he is not credited in the CD booklet) [5]
• Unidentified strings, woodwinds and brass arranged and conducted by Claus Ogerman[6]

Production

• Creed Taylor – producer
• Rudy Van Gelder – recording engineer [5]

References

External links

• BETSO Album Page at Verve
• BETSO Album page with reviews at Amazon UK
• The Bill Evans Memorial Library
• Bill Evans discography at Jazz Discography

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