Bill Evans - The Complete Riverside Recordings (12 CD)

This magnificent 12-CD set contains all of Bill Evans' Riverside recordings as a leader, an extremely important period in the influential pianist's development. The first session predates Evans' period with the Miles Davis Sextet and other significant sessions include his sets with bassist Scott LaFaro and drummer Paul Motian (highlighted by the marathon Village Vanguard session of June 25, 1961), Evans' return nearly a year after LaFaro's death in a car accident with a new trio (consisting of Motian and bassist Chuck Israels), a sideman set with altoist Cannonball Adderley, the Interplay sessions with either trumpeter Freddie Hubbard or tenor saxophonist Zoot Sims, an extensive and rather somber solo set, and a 1963 appearance at Shelly's Manne Hole with bassist Israels and drummer Larry Bunker. Twenty sessions are released in full, 151 selections in all, including 24 performances that had been previously unissued at the time. Fortunately for listeners with a budget, nearly all of this material has since been reissued on single CDs (mostly as part of the Original Jazz Classics series), but true Bill Evans fanatics will have to get this remarkable box. //allmusic.com

Tracklists:

CD 1:

01 - I Love You
02 - Five
03 - Conception
04 - Easy Living
05 - Displacement
06 - Speak Low
07 - Our Delight
08 - No Cover, No Minimum (take 1-Alternate)
09 - No Cover, No Minimum (take 2-Originally Issued)
10 - I've Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
11 - Waltz For Debby
12 - My Romance
13 - Minority
14 - Young And Foolish
15 - Night & Day
16 - Oleo

CD 2:

01 - Tenderly
02 - What Is There To Say?
03 - Peace Piece
04 - Lucky To Be Me
05 - Some Other Time
06 - Epilogue
07 - You & The Night & The Music
08 - How Am I To Know?
09 - Woody'n You (Take 1)
10 - Woody'n You (Take 2)
11 - My Heart Stood Still
12 - Green Dolphin Street
13 - Peri's Scope
14 - Witchcraft

CD 3:

01 - Spring Is Here
02 - What Is This Thing Called Love?
03 - Come Rain Or Come Shine
04 - Blue In Green (Take 2-Previously Unissued)
05 - Blue In Green (Take 3-Originally Issued)
06 - Autumn Leaves (Mono)
07 - Autumn Leaves (Stereo)
08 - Some Day My Prince Will Come
09 - When I Fall In Love
10 - Elsa
11 - Sweet & Lovely
12 - Beautiful Love (Take 1-Previously Unissued)
13 - Beautiful Love (Take 2-Originally Issued)

CD 4:

01 - I Wish I Knew
02 - The Boy Next Door
03 - Haunted Heart
04 - Nardis
05 - How Deep Is The Ocean?
06 - Israel
07 - Who Cares? (Take 4-Previously Unissued)
08 - Who Cares? (Take 5-Originally Issued)
09 - Goodbye
10 - Nancy (With The Laughing Face)
11 - Toy
12 - Elsa
13 - Waltz For Debby
14 - Venice

CD 5:

01 - Know What I Mean? (Take 12-Alternate)
02 - Know What I Mean? (Take Re-7-Originally Issued)
03 - Alice In Wonderland (Take 1-Alternate)
04 - My Foolish Heart
05 - All of You (Take 1-Previously Unissued)
06 - My Romance (Take 1-Originally Issued)
07 - Some Other Time
08 - Solar
09 - Gloria's Step (Take 2-Originally Issued)
10 - My Man's Gone Now

CD 6:

1. All of You (Take 2-Originally Issued)
2. Detour Ahead (Take 1-Alternate)
3. Waltz For Debby (Take 1-Alternate)
4. Alice In Wonderland (Take 2-Originally Issued)
5. Porgy (I Loves You, Porgy)
6. My Romance Take 2-Alternate)
7. Milestones
8. Detour Ahead (Take 2-Originally Issued)
9. Gloria's Step (Take 3-Alternate)

CD 7:

01 - Waltz For Debby (Take 2-Originally Issued)
02 - All of You (Take 3-Alternate)
03 - Jade Visions (Take 1-Alternate)
04 - Jade Visions (Take 2-Originally Issued)
05 - …A Few Final Bars
06 - Danny Boy
07 - Like Someone In Love
08 - In Your Own Sweet Way
09 - Easy to Love
10 - How My Heart Sings
11 - Summertime
12 - If You Could See Me Now
13 - Walking Up

CD 8:

01 - Very Early
02 - Show-Type Tune
03 - Re: Person I Knew
04 - 34 Skidoo
05 - Palkadots & Moonbeams
06 - I Should Care
07 - I Fall in Love Too Easily
08 - Ev'rything I Love
09 - In Love In Vain
10 - Stairway to the Stars
11 - In Your Own Sweet Way (Take 1-Originally Issued)
12 - In Your Own Sweet Way (Take 2-Previously Unissued)
13 - It Might As Well Be Spring

CD 9:

01 - Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams
02 - When You Wish Upon A Star
03 - You Go To My Head
04 - You & The Night & The Music
05 - Interplay
06 - I'll Never Smile Again (Take Re-6-Previously Unissued)
07 - I'll Never Smile Again (Take Re-7-Originally Issued)
08 - Loose Bloose (Take 3)
09 - Loose Bloose (Takes 2 & 4)
10 - Fudgesickle Built For Four
11 - Times Remembered

CD 10:

01 - Funkallero
02 - My Bells
03 - There Came You
04 - Run Ride
05 - What Kind Of Fool Am I? (Take 1)
06 - My Favorite Things/Easy To Love/Baubles, Bangles & Beads
07 - When I Fall In Love
08 - 'Spartacus' Love Theme/Nardis
09 - Everything Happens To Me
10 - April In Paris

CD 11:

01 - All The Things You Are
02 - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
03 - I Loves You, Porgy
04 - What Kind Of Fool Am I? (Take 2)
05 - Love Is Here To Stay
06 - Ornithology
07 - Autumn In New York/How About You?
08 - All The Things You Are
09 - Lover Man
10 - Love Is Here To Say
11 - Stella By Starlight

CD 12:

01 - 'Round Midnight
02 - Who Cares?
03 - The Boy Next Door
04 - Isn't It Romantic?
05 - What Is This Thing Called Love?
06 - How About You?
07 - Blues In F/Five
08 - Everything Happens To Me
09 - In A Sentimental Mood
10 - My Heart Stood Still
11 - Time Remembered
12 - Wonder Why
13 - Swedish Pastry

Musicians:

Cannonball Adderley - Leader, Sax (Alto)
Ray Brown - Bass
Larry Bunker - Drums
Kenny Burrell - Guitar
Ron Carter - Bass
Paul Chambers - Bass
Bill Evans - Piano
Eddie Gómez - Bass
Jim Hall - Guitar
Percy Heath - Bass
Freddie Hubbard - Trumpet
Chuck Israels - Bass
Philly Joe Jones - Drums
Sam Jones - Bass
Connie Kay - Drums
Lee Konitz - Sax (Alto)
Teddy Kotick - Bass
Scott LaFaro - Bass
Harold Land - Sax (Tenor)
Paul Motian - Drums
Zoot Sims - Sax (Tenor)
Eliot Zigmund - Drums