| Everybody Digs Bill Evans | ||||
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| Released | End of March 1959[1] | |||
| Recorded | December 15, 1958 | |||
| Studio | Reeves Sound Studios, New York City | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 42:36 original LP 48:45 CD reissue | |||
| Label | Riverside RLP 12-291 | |||
| Producer | Orrin Keepnews | |||
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Everybody Digs Bill Evans is a trio and solo album by jazz pianist Bill Evans. It was released in early 1959 on the Riverside Records label.
The cover of the album features tribute quotations from some of Evans's most esteemed contemporaries:
I've sure learned a lot from Bill Evans. He plays the piano the way it should be played.—Miles Davis
Bill Evans is one of the most refreshing pianists I have heard in years.—George Shearing
I think Bill Evans is one of the finest.—Ahmad Jamal
Bill Evans has rare originality and taste and the even rarer ability to make his conception of a number seem the definitive way to play it.—Cannonball Adderley
Evans quipped to his producer, Orrin Keepnews, "Why didn't you get a quote from my mother?"[2]
- ^ "Jazz Albums", Billboard, April 6, 1959.
- ^ Pettinger, Peter, Bill Evans: How My Heart Sings, Yale University Press (1998), p. 71.