Bill Evans Trio with Symphony Orchestra 1966

Bill Evans Trio with Symphony Orchestra 1966

Personnel

Bill Evans – piano

Larry Bunker – drums

Chuck Israels – bass

Grady Tate – drums

Claus Ogerman – arranger, conductor

Track listing

"Granadas" (Enrique Granados) – 5:54

"Valse" (Johann Sebastian Bach) – 5:52

"Prelude" (Alexander Scriabin) – 3:01

"Time Remembered" (Bill Evans) – 4:10

"Pavane" (Gabriel Fauré) – 4:01

"Elegia (Elegy)" (Claus Ogerman) – 5:12

"My Bells" (Evans) – 3:48

"Blue Interlude" (Frédéric Chopin) – 6:04

Bill Evans Trio With Symphony Orchestra (Verve, 1965) 

Although dismissed by some critics, this CD, with arrangements by Claus Ogermann, is very lovely. Evans was very proud of this album. Ogermann's charts are sweetly romantic rather than overbearing, and this gives Evans and his trio (with bassist Chuck Israels and drummer Grady Tate) room to maneuver. Evans' composition "My Bells" is one of the stronger cuts.