Bill Evans discography

The following is a listing of the jazz pianist Bill Evans's 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. He received 31 nominations for Grammy Awards and won seven times.

Discography

As leader

Year of recording	Title	Notes		Label
1956	New Jazz Conceptions	Trio with Teddy Kotick (bass), Paul Motian (drums)		Riverside
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 instead of usual trombone), 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	Orchestra conducted by Claus Ogerman		MGM
1963	At Shelly's Manne-Hole	Live - Trio with Chuck Israels (b), Larry Bunker (d)		Riverside
1963	Time Remembered	Live - Trio with Chuck Israels (b), Larry Bunker (d)		Milestone
1963	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	Orchestra conducted by Claus Ogerman and Bill Evans Trio with Chuck Israels (b), Larry Bunker/Grady Tate (d)		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 Gomez (b), Shelly Manne (d)		Verve
1966	Live in Oslo 1966	Live - Trio with Eddie Gomez (b), Alex Riel (Oslo) and Marty Morell (New Jersey) (d)		Impro-Jazz a.o. (DVD)
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	Alone	Solo - Grammy Award winner		Verve
1968	Some Other Time: The Lost Session from the Black Forest	Trio with Eddie Gomez (b), Jack DeJohnette (d) - Grammy Award winner		Resonance
1968	Another Time: The Hilversum Concert	Trio with Eddie Gomez (b), Jack DeJohnette (d)		Resonance
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
1969	Quiet Now	Live - Trio with Eddie Gomez (b), Marty Morell (d)		Charly
1969.12	Evans in England	Live - Trio with Eddie Gomez (b), Marty Morell (d)		Resonance
1970	From Left to Right	Orchestra conducted by Michael Leonard		MGM
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	Live in Paris 1972 (3 Vol.)	Live - Trio with Eddie Gómez (b), Marty Morell (d)		France's Concert
1972	Living Time	Orchestra conducted by George Russell		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	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	Orchestra conducted by Claus Ogerman and Bill Evans Trio with Eddie Gomez (b), Marty Morell (d)		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
1975.06	On a Friday Evening	Trio with Eddie Gomez (b), Eliot Zigmund (d)		Craft
1975.06	The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album	Duo with singer Tony Bennett		Fantasy
1975.07	Montreux III	Live - Duo with Eddie Gomez (b)		Fantasy
1975.12	Alone Again	Solo		Fantasy
1976.05	Quintessence	Quintet with Harold Land (tenor sax), Kenny Burrell (g), Ray Brown (b), Philly Joe Jones (d)		Fantasy
1976.09	Together Again	Duo with singer Tony Bennett		Improv
1976.11	The Complete Fantasy Recordings Vol. 7	Trio with Eddie Gomez (b), Eliot Zigmund (d)		Fantasy
1976.11	On a Monday Evening	Trio with Eddie Gomez (b), Eliot Zigmund (d)		Fantasy
1977.02	Crosscurrents	Quintet with Lee Konitz (alto sax), Warne Marsh (tenor sax), Eddie Gomez (b), Eliot Zigmund (d)		Fantasy
1977.05	I Will Say Goodbye	Trio with Eddie Gomez (b), Eliot Zigmund (d) - Grammy Award winner		Fantasy
1977.08	You Must Believe in Spring	Trio with Eddie Gomez (b), Eliot Zigmund (d)		Warner Bros.
1978.01	Getting Sentimental	Live - Trio with Michael Moore (b), Philly Joe Jones (d)		Milestone
1978.01-02	New Conversations	Solo		Warner Bros.
1978.10	Live at Lulu White's (30 Oct 1979)	Trio with Marc Johnson (b), Joe LaBarbera (d)		DOL
1978.10-11	Affinity	Quintet with Toots Thielemans (harmonica), Larry Schneider (flute; alto & tenor sax), Marc Johnson (b), Eliot Zigmund (d)		Warner Bros.
1978.11	Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz	Radio Broadcast: Special guest Bill Evans		Fantasy
1979.08	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.
1979.09	Live in Buenos Aires 1979	Trio with Marc Johnson (b), Joe LaBarbera (d)		Yellow Note
1979.11	Homecoming	Live - Trio with Marc Johnson (b), Joe LaBarbera (d)		Milestone
1979.11	The Paris Concert: Edition One	Live - Trio with Marc Johnson (b), Joe LaBarbera (d)		Elektra Musician
1979.11	The Paris Concert: Edition Two	Live - Trio with Marc Johnson (b), Joe LaBarbera (d)		Elektra Musician
1979.12	Live at Balboa Jazz Club Vol. 1-5	Live - Trio with Marc Johnson (b), Joe LaBarbera (d)		Ivory
1980.06	Turn Out the Stars: The Final Village Vanguard Recordings	Live - Trio with Marc Johnson (b), Joe LaBarbera (d)		Nonesuch
1980.07	Letter to Evan	Live - Trio with Marc Johnson (b), Joe LaBarbera (d)		Dreyfus
1980.08	Turn Out the Stars	Live - Trio with Marc Johnson (b), Joe LaBarbera (d)		Dreyfus
1980.08	His Last Concert in Germany	Live - Trio with Marc Johnson (b), Joe LaBarbera (d)		West Wind
1980.08	The Last Waltz: The Final Recordings	Live - Trio with Marc Johnson (b), Joe LaBarbera (d)		Milestone
1980.08	Consecration: The Final Recordings Part 2	Live - Trio with Marc Johnson (b), Joe LaBarbera (d)		Milestone
1980.09	The Very Last Performance at Fat Tuesday	Live - Trio with Marc Johnson (b), Joe LaBarbera (d)		Domino

Compilations

Year	Album	Notes	Label
1982	Eloquence	Live and studio, solo and duo with Eddie Gómez, recorded 1973-75	Fantasy
1984	The Complete Riverside Recordings	Limited edition 18-LP box, re-released as 12-CD set in 1987, recordings	Riverside Records
1986	At the Village Vanguard	Includes 10 master takes from the live 25 June 1961 recordings	Riverside Records
1989	The Complete Fantasy Recordings	9-CD set, recorded 1973-79	Fantasy Records
1993	Jazz Around Midnight		Verve
1995	The Best of Verve		Verve
1996	The Secret Sessions: Recorded at the Village Vanguard	8-CD set, recorded 1966-75	Milestone Records
1997	The Complete Bill Evans on Verve	18-CD set	Verve
1998	Ultimate Bill Evans	Selected by Herbie Hancock, recorded 1956–71	Verve
1998	Piano Player	From various sessions with various musicians, recorded 1957–71 Includes 6 duos with Eddie Gomez (b)	Columbia
2001	Bill Evans' Finest Hour		Verve
2004	Bill Evans for Lovers	Various sessions and sources	Verve
2004	The Best of Bill Evans	From sessions for the Riverside label, recorded 1956–63	Riverside
2005	Bill Evans and Orchestra: Brandeis Jazz Festival	Works for piano and orchestra conducted by Gunther Schuller and George Russell with 3 bonus Don Elliott quartet recordings, all recorded 1957	Gambit Records
2005	The 1960 Birdland Sessions	Broadcast recordings with Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian	Fresh Sound
2005	The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961	3-CD box set, recordings with Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian	Riverside
2005	We Will Meet Again - The Bill Evans Anthology	2-CD box set	Warner Bros.
2007	Emergence	Selected early recordings from 1955-56	FiveFour
2007	The Sideman Years	Selected early recordings as a sideman from 1955-57	Fresh Sound
2009	The Complete Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Recordings		Fantasy
2012	My Foolish Heart	Compilation of 45 remastered tracks
2017	Complete Studio & Live Masters	3-CD set of Evans's complete recordings with Miles Davis	One Records [European Union]
2021	Everybody Still Digs Bill Evans - A Career Retrospective 1956–1980	5-CD box set	Craft
2023	Treasures	2-CD set, previously unreleased solo, trio, and orchestral recordings from Denmark, recorded 1965-69	Elemental Music

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 (Bethlehem, 1957)

With Jimmy Knepper

• A Swinging Introduction to Jimmy Knepper (Bethlehem 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)
• Jazz at the Plaza (1973)
• At Newport 1958 (2001)

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 Warne Marsh

• The Art of Improvising (Revelation, 1959 [1974])

With Manny Albam/Teo Macero

• Something New, Something Blue (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) – re-mixed version released as Just Jazz!

References

External links

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