How My Heart Sings [VINYL]

180 Gram LP

Bill Evans' return to full activity in 1962 came almost a year after his celebrated trio recordings at the Village Vanguard. Just ten days after that classic 'live' session, bassist Scott LaFaro had died in a highway accident. Evans, deeply shaken, eventually reformed his trio with the same drummer (Paul Motian) and Chuck Israels on bass. Their first visit to a studio was for a dual purpose: to make an all-ballad-tempo album, 'Moonbeams', and this 'normal' set at the same time. It was producer Orrin Keepnews's thought that recording eight slow numbers in a row might prove unduly enervating; accordingly, the total two-album repertoire was interspersed over three days of recording and the net result was two excellent additions to the Evans catalogue. With Chuck Israels and Paul Motian.

1 How My Heart Sings
2 I Should Care
3 In Your Own Sweet Way
4 Walking Up
5 Summertime
6 34 Skidoo
7 Ev'rything I Love
8 Show-type Tune