You Must Believe in Spring

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You Must Believe in Spring
Studio album by Bill Evans

Publication
(s)

1981

Label (s) Warner Bros. Records

Format (s)

LP, CD

Genre (s)

jazz

Title (number)

7th

running time

33:48

occupation

production

Helen Keane , Tom LiPuma

Studio (s)

Capitol Studios, Vine Street, Los Angeles

chronology
We Will Meet Again
(1979) 		You Must Believe in Spring -

You Must Believe in Spring is a jazz album by Bill Evans , recorded August 23-25, 1977 and released on Warner Bros. Records after Bill Evans' death in 1981 .

The album

With You Must Believe in Spring the last studio album, which had included the pianist with his trio mid-1977 appeared 1981st After that, recordings were made in 1978/79 with an expanded line-up with Toots Thielemans and Tom Harrell as well as live recordings from Buenos Aires , the New York Village Vanguard and the Keystone Korner in San Francisco (“Consecration”).

Bassist Eddie Gomez had worked with the pianist since the Verve album A Simple Matter of Conviction (1966); Eliot Zigmund had been a member of the Bill Evans trio since 1977 when he replaced their longtime drummer Marty Morell . After his last album, I Will Say Goodbye , recorded in May 1977, Bill Evans and his producer Helen Keane moved from the fantasy label to Warner Brothers, as they found better production conditions for his music there.

“ They made a brilliant offer and I think there was no mistake in taking it - everything went as we expected. In addition, Fantasy turned more to the film business and scaled back its entire record production. We had it good with Warner - even if there was sometimes trouble. Bill lamented the general lack of interest in jazz. But overall, they treated him with respect, even though they knew he wouldn't be a big earner. "

- Helen Keane

In August 1977, a record was created that was similar in concept to the previous album. “The music is gripping, often even moving,” says Evans biographer Hanns E. Petrik, “it stirs emotions in a much more impressive way than the production from May this year Year ". The album begins with the waltz "B Minor Waltz (for Ellaine)", which the pianist dedicated to his wife. According to Petrik, it is “one of his most beautiful and also saddest pieces; it reflects a lot of the pianist's painful life experiences ”. Petrik sees the “red thread” of this album in this mood, whether in Jimmy Rowles ' composition “The Peacocks” or in the title melody “You Must Believe in Spring”, which comes from Michel Legrand ; it was the theme song in the 1967 film Les Demoiselles de Rochefort . Bill Evans also recorded the song in 1977 with singer Tony Bennett ; he appeared on their second album together, Together Again .

Helen Keane initially held back the recordings for the trio album and prepared a new piano solo project for January 1978 ( New Conversations ).

Rating of the album

Evans biographer Hanns E. Petrik counts the album as one of the most moving albums of the late Bill Evans; it is recommendable in every respect. Even Brian Priestley sets it in Jazz Rough Guide from the circumferential Evans Discography out and mentions the title "B Minor Waltz" because of its unusual harmonies and structures as well as influenced by Legrand entitled "We Will Meet Again (For Harry)," the Evans dedicated to his recently deceased brother. Scott Yanow rates the album in the All Music Guide with four stars and emphasizes in his comment the well-rounded production of the album; it is a coherent example of the art of the famous pianist. In the magazine Scala (9/1999) it was said: “A record full of unkitschy emotionality, bitter beauty, dark melancholy and painful sadness; the mature product of Bill Evans' life experiences. "

The titles

  • Bill Evans Trio - "You Must Believe In Spring featuring Eddie Gomez and Eliot Zigmund" (Warner Bros. HS 3504-Y)
  1. B Minor Waltz (For Ellaine) (Bill Evans) - 3:12
  2. You Must Believe in Spring ( Alan Bergman / Marilyn Bergman / Jacques Demy / Michel Legrand ) - 5:37
  3. Gary's Theme ( Gary McFarland ) - 4:15
  4. We Will Meet Again (For Harry) (Bill Evans) - 3:59
  5. The Peacocks ( Jimmy Rowles ) - 6:00
  6. Sometime Ago ( Sergio Mihanovich ) - 4:52
  7. Theme From M * A * S * H ​​(Suicide Is Painless) ( Michael Altman / Johnny Mandel ) - 5:53

The 2003 re-release of the album by Rhino added three additional tracks:

8. Without a Song ( Edward Eliscu / Billy Rose / Vincent Youmans ) - 8:09
9. Freddie Freeloader ( Miles Davis ) - 7:37
10. All of You ( Cole Porter ) - 8:09 am

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heleen Keane, quoted from Hanns E. Petrik.
  2. ↑ All Music Guide
  3. ↑ cit. n. HiFi forum blog