Bill Evans discography

The following is a listing of the jazz pianist Bill Evans' original albums. He recorded over 50 albums as a leader between 1956 and 1980 and also played as a sideman on nearly as many more. He broke new ground in many of his piano trio, duet and solo recordings. Several of those won or were nominated for Grammy Awards.

Discography

As leader

Year of recording	Album	Notes	Label
1956	New Jazz Conceptions	Trio with Teddy Kotick (bass), Paul Motian (drums)	Riverside
1956-57	Tenderly: An Informal Session	Practice tape with Don Elliott (vibraphone and vocal percussion)	Milestone
1958	Everybody Digs Bill Evans	Trio with Sam Jones (b), Philly Joe Jones (d)	Riverside
1959	On Green Dolphin Street	Trio with Paul Chambers (b), Philly Joe Jones (d)	Milestone
1959	The Ivory Hunters	Quartet with Bob Brookmeyer (piano), Percy Heath (b), Connie Kay (d)	United Artists
1959	Portrait in Jazz	Trio with Scott LaFaro (b), Paul Motian (d)	Riverside
1961	Explorations	Trio with Scott LaFaro (b), Paul Motian (d)	Riverside
1961	Sunday at the Village Vanguard	Live - Trio with Scott LaFaro (b), Paul Motian (d)	Riverside
1961	Waltz for Debby	Live - Trio with Scott LaFaro (b), Paul Motian (d)	Riverside
1961-62	Nirvana	Herbie Mann (flute) and Bill Evans Trio with Chuck Israels (b), Paul Motian (d)	Atlantic
1962	Undercurrent	Duo with Jim Hall (guitar)	United Artists
1962	Moon Beams	Trio with Chuck Israels (b), Paul Motian (d)	Riverside
1962	How My Heart Sings!	Trio with Chuck Israels (b), Paul Motian (d)	Riverside
1962	Interplay	Quintet with Freddie Hubbard (trumpet), Jim Hall (g), Percy Heath (b), Philly Joe Jones (d)	Riverside
1962	Empathy	Trio with Monty Budwig (b), Shelly Manne (d)	Verve
1962	Loose Blues	Quintet with Zoot Sims (tenor sax), Jim Hall (g), Ron Carter (b), Philly Joe Jones (d)	Milestone
1963	The Solo Sessions, Vol. 1	Solo	Milestone
1963	The Solo Sessions, Vol. 2	Solo	Milestone
1963	The Gary McFarland Orchestra	Orchestra with Special Guest Soloist: Bill Evans	Verve
1963	Conversations with Myself	Solo - Grammy Award winner	Verve
1963	Plays the Theme from The V.I.P.s and Other Great Songs	with orchestra conducted by Claus Ogerman	MGM
1963	Time Remembered	Live - Trio with Chuck Israels (b), Larry Bunker (d)	Milestone
1963	At Shelly's Manne-Hole	Live - Trio with Chuck Israels (b), Larry Bunker (d)	Riverside
1964	Trio '64	Trio with Gary Peacock (b), Paul Motian (d)	Verve
1964	Stan Getz & Bill Evans	Quartet with Stan Getz (tenor sax), Richard Davis/Ron Carter (b), Elvin Jones (d)	Verve
1964	The Bill Evans Trio "Live"	Live - Trio with Chuck Israels (b), Larry Bunker (d)	Verve
1964	Waltz for Debby	Singer Monica Zetterlund & trio with Chuck Israels (b), Larry Bunker (d)	Philips
1965	Trio '65	Trio with Chuck Israels (b), Larry Bunker (d)	Verve
1965	Bill Evans Trio with Symphony Orchestra	Trio with Chuck Israels (b), Larry Bunker/Grady Tate (d). Orchestra conducted by Claus Ogerman	Verve
1966	Bill Evans at Town Hall	Live- Trio with Chuck Israels (b), Arnold Wise (d)	Verve
1966	Intermodulation	Duo with Jim Hall (g)	Verve
1966	A Simple Matter of Conviction	Trio with Eddie Gómez (b), Shelly Manne (d)	Verve
1967	Further Conversations with Myself	Solo	Verve
1967	California Here I Come	Live - Trio with Eddie Gomez (b), Philly Joe Jones (d)	Verve
1968	Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival	Live - Trio with Eddie Gomez (b), Jack DeJohnette (d) - Grammy Award winner	Verve
1968	Bill Evans Alone	Solo - Grammy Award winner	Verve
1968	Live at Art D'Lugoff's Top of the Gate	Trio with Eddie Gomez (b), Marty Morell (d)	Resonance
1969	What's New	Quartet with Jeremy Steig (flute), Eddie Gomez (b), Marty Morell (d)	Verve
1969	Autumn Leaves	Trio with Eddie Gomez (b), Marty Morell (d)	Lotus
1969	Jazzhouse	Live - Trio with Eddie Gomez (b), Marty Morell (d)	Milestone
1969	You're Gonna Hear From Me	Live - Trio with Eddie Gomez (b), Marty Morell (d)	Milestone
1970	From Left to Right	with orchestra conducted by Michael Leonard	MGM
1969	Quiet Now	Live - Trio with Eddie Gomez (b), Marty Morell (d)	Charly
1970	Montreux II	Live - Trio with Eddie Gomez (b), Marty Morell (d)	CTI
1971	The Bill Evans Album	Trio with Eddie Gomez (b), Marty Morell (d) - Grammy Award winner	Columbia
1972	Living Time	with George Russell Orchestra	Columbia
1972	Momentum	Live - Trio with Eddie Gomez (b), Marty Morell (d)	Limetree
1973	The Tokyo Concert	Live - Trio with Eddie Gomez (b), Marty Morell (d)	Fantasy
1973-5	Eloquence	Live and studio - Solo, and duo with Eddie Gomez (b)	Fantasy
1973	Half Moon Bay	Live - Trio with Eddie Gomez (b), Marty Morell (d)	Milestone
1974	Since We Met	Live - Trio with Eddie Gomez (b), Marty Morell (d)	Fantasy
1974	Re: Person I Knew	Live - Trio with Eddie Gomez (b), Marty Morell (d)	Fantasy
1974	Symbiosis	Trio with Eddie Gomez (b), Marty Morell (d), and orchestra conducted by Claus Ogerman	MPS
1974	But Beautiful	Live - Stan Getz (tenor sax) and Bill Evans Trio with Eddie Gomez (b), Marty Morell (d)	Milestone
1974	Blue in Green: The Concert in Canada	Live - Trio with Eddie Gomez (b), Marty Morell (d)	Milestone
1974	Intuition	Duo with Eddie Gomez (b)	Fantasy
1975	The Tony Bennett / Bill Evans Album	with singer Tony Bennett	Fantasy
1975	Montreux III	Live - Duo with Eddie Gomez (b)	Fantasy
1975	Alone Again	Solo	Fantasy
1976	Quintessence	Quintet with Harold Land (tenor sax), Kenny Burrell (g), Ray Brown (b), Philly Joe Jones (d)	Fantasy
1976	Together Again	with singer Tony Bennett	Improv
1977	Crosscurrents	Quintet with Lee Konitz (alto sax), Warne Marsh (tenor sax), Eddie Gomez (b), Eliot Zigmund (d)	Fantasy
1977	I Will Say Goodbye	Trio with Eddie Gomez (b), Eliot Zigmund (d) - Grammy Award winner	Fantasy
1977	You Must Believe in Spring	Trio with Eddie Gomez (b), Eliot Zigmund (d)	Warner Bros.
1978	Getting Sentimental	Live - Trio with Michael Moore (b), Philly Joe Jones (d)	Milestone
1978	New Conversations	Solo	Warner Bros.
1979	Affinity	Quintet with Toots Thielemans (harmonica), Larry Schneider (flute; alto & tenor sax), Marc Johnson (b), Eliot Zigmund (d)	Warner Bros.
1979	Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz	Radio Broadcast: Special guest Bill Evans	Fantasy
1979	We Will Meet Again	Quintet with Tom Harrell (trumpet), Larry Schneider (soprano & tenor sax), Marc Johnson (b), Joe LaBarbera (d) - Grammy Award winner	Warner Bros.
1979	Homecoming	Live - Trio with Marc Johnson (b), Joe LaBarbera (d)	Milestone
1979	The Paris Concert: Edition One	Live - Trio with Marc Johnson (b), Joe LaBarbera (d)	Elektra Musician
1979	The Paris Concert: Edition Two	Live - Trio with Marc Johnson (b), Joe LaBarbera (d)	Elektra Musician
1980	Turn Out the Stars: The Final Village Vanguard Recordings	Live - Trio with Marc Johnson (b), Joe LaBarbera (d)	Nonesuch
1980	Letter to Evan	Live - Trio with Marc Johnson (b), Joe LaBarbera (d)	Dreyfus
1980	Turn Out the Stars	Live - Trio with Marc Johnson (b), Joe LaBarbera (d)	Dreyfus
1980	The Last Waltz: The Final Recordings	Live - Trio with Marc Johnson (b), Joe LaBarbera (d)	Milestone
1980	Consecration: The Final Recordings Part 2	Live - Trio with Marc Johnson (b), Joe LaBarbera (d)	Milestone
2016	Some Other Time: The Lost Session from The Black Forest (20 June 1968)	Trio with Eddie Gomez (b), Jack DeJohnette (d) - Grammy Award winner	Resonance

Compilations

Year	Album	Notes	Label
1977	The Second Trio	2-LP reissue of 1962 Riverside releases Moon Beams, How My Heart Sings!	Milestone
1981	Conception	2-LP reissue of 1956 Riverside release New Jazz Conceptions, with 6 bonus tracks, 5 of them solo sessions (1958, 1962), 4 of them (1962) and the final track trio recording (1958) previously unreleased	Milestone
1982	The "Interplay" Sessions		Milestone
1991	The Complete Riverside Recordings	12-CD box set	Riverside
1995	The Best of Verve		Verve
1996	The Complete Fantasy Recordings	9-CD box set	Fantasy
1996	The Secret Sessions	Recorded at the Village Vanguard 1966-1975 - 8-CD box set	Milestone
1997	The Complete Bill Evans on Verve	18-CD box set	Verve
1998	Piano Player	From various sessions with various musicians recorded 1956-1971 Includes 6 duos with Eddie Gomez (b)	Columbia
2001	Bill Evans' Finest Hour		Verve
2004	The Best of Bill Evans	Various sessions and sources	Riverside
2004	Bill Evans for Lovers	Various sessions and sources	Verve
2005	The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961	3-CD box set	Riverside
2005	We Will Meet Again - The Bill Evans Anthology	2-CD box set	Warner Bros.
2009	The Complete Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Recordings	2-CD box set	Fantasy
2014	Conception	Reissue of 1981 Milestone release Conception	Essential Jazz Classics

As sideman

With Jerry Wald

• Jerry Wald and his Orchestra (1953)
• Listen to the Music of Jerry Wald (1955)

With Lucy Reed

• The Singing Reed (1955)

With Dick Garcia

• A Message from Garcia (1955)

With George Russell

• The Jazz Workshop (1956)
• Brandeis Jazz Festival (1957) with orchestra arranged and conducted by Russell & Gunther Schuller
• New York, N.Y. (1959)
• Jazz in the Space Age (1960)

With Tony Scott

• The Touch of Tony Scott (1956)
• The Complete Tony Scott (1956)
• The Modern Art of Jazz (1957)
• Free Blown Jazz (1957)
• My Kind of Jazz (1957)
• Golden Moments (1959)
• I'll Remember (1959)
• Sung Heroes (1959)

With Don Elliot

• Tenderly: An Informal Session (Milestone, 1956-7 [2001])
• Eddie Costa, Mat Mathews & Don Elliott at Newport (Verve, 1957)
• The Mello Sound of Don Elliot (Decca, 1958)

With Joe Puma

• Joe Puma Trio and Quartet (1957)

With Charles Mingus

• East Coasting (1957)

With Jimmy Knepper

• A Swinging Introduction to Jimmy Knepper (1957)

With Sahib Shihab

• Jazz Sahib (Savoy, 1957)

With Idrees Sulieman

• Roots (New Jazz, 1957) with the Prestige All Stars

With Pepper Adams

• The Soul of Jazz Percussion (1960) features 3 tracks by the Donald Byrd-Pepper Adams Sextet with Evans, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones, and Earl Zindars

With Eddie Costa

• Guys and Dolls Like Vibes (1958)

With Helen Merrill

• The Nearness of You (1958)

With Hal McKusick

• Cross Section Saxes (1958)

With Miles Davis

• 1958 Miles (1958)
• Kind of Blue (1959)

With Michel Legrand

• Legrand Jazz (1958)

With Cannonball Adderley

• Portrait of Cannonball (1958)
• Jump for Joy (1958)
• Know What I Mean? (1961)

With Art Farmer

• Modern Art (United Artists, 1958)

With Chet Baker

• Chet Baker Introduces Johnny Pace (Riverside, 1958) [not credited]
• Chet (Riverside, 1959)
• Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe (Riverside, 1959)

With Bill Potts

• The Jazz Soul of Porgy and Bess (1959)

With Lee Konitz

• Live at the Half Note (Verve, 1959)
• Lee Konitz Meets Jimmy Giuffre (Verve, 1959) with Jimmy Giuffre
• You and Lee (Verve, 1959)

With Manny Albam/Teo Macero

• Something New, Something Blue (1959)

With Warne Marsh

• The Art of Improvising (1959)

With John Lewis

• Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
• Jazz Abstractions (1960) with Gunther Schuller & Jim Hall

With Frank Minion

• The Soft Land of Make Believe (1960)

With Kai Winding

• The Great Kai & J. J. (1960) with J. J. Johnson
• The Incredible Kai Winding Trombones (1960)

With Oliver Nelson

• The Blues and the Abstract Truth (Impulse!, 1961)

With Mark Murphy

• Rah! (1961)

With Dave Pike

• Pike's Peak (Epic, 1962)

With Tadd Dameron

• The Magic Touch (Tadd Dameron album) (Riverside, 1961)

With Benny Golson

• Pop + Jazz = Swing (Audio Fidelity, 1961) - also released as Just Jazz!

External links

• Jazz Discography entries for Bill Evans
• A More Complete Bill Evans Discography At Allmusic
• The Bill Evans Memorial Library