| From Left to Right | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | January/February 1971[1] | |||
| Recorded | October 14 & 21, November 13, 1969, March 26 & 28, April 23 & 29, May 1 & 20, 1970 San Francisco, CA | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Label | MGM | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [2] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [3] |
From Left to Right is an album by American jazz pianist Bill Evans, released in 1971. It was recorded with his regular bassist Eddie Gómez and drummer Marty Morell and with an orchestra arranged and conducted by Michael Leonard. This was the first album on which Evans played a Fender Rhodes electric piano.[4]
The recording includes two compositions by Evans's friend Earl Zindars and a new Michel Legrand tune, "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?," which "became a favorite of the trio's after this recording."[5]
Evans biographer Peter Pettinger noted, "The aim of From Left to Right was far removed from the continuing work of the trio. This album and the earlier The V.I.P.s [with Claus Ogerman] are the only Bill Evans records to be filed appropriately under 'easy listening' at your local record store."[6]
- ^ Billboard Feb 20, 1971
- ^ "From Left to Right - Bill Evans | AllMusic". allmusic.com. 2011. Retrieved 18 July 2011.
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 457. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- ^ Pettinger, Peter, Bill Evans: How My Heart Sings, Yale University Press (1998), p. 199.
- ^ Pettinger, p. 199-200.
- ^ Pettinger, p. 200.