Further Conversations with Myself


Further Conversations with Myself is a 1967 album by jazz pianist Bill Evans. All the pieces are solo with piano overdubs, a method Evans used on his earlier release Conversations with Myself. This time, however, he employed only two piano tracks instead of three. The album was nominated for a Grammy. It was reissued on CD by Verve in 1999.

Reception

Writing for AllMusic, music critic Scott Yanow called the album "A thoughtful and spontaneous sounding set of melodic music." Peter Pettinger notes that it "opens with the arresting beauty of that new title in the Evans book, Johnny Mandel's 'Emily,' a fresh bloom that was to become a great favorite. The same composer's Academy Award-winning 'The Shadow of Your Smile,' from the 1965 film The Sandpiper, received a probing performance, one of the most concentrated of Evans's career, developing with increasing insistence and relentless pace.... By contrast, a stark emotional directness was brought to Denny Zeitlin's fine tune 'Quiet Now,' another Evans mainstay-in-the-making."

Track listing

  1. "Emily (Johnny [Mandel and Johnny Mercer song)|Emily]" - 4:56
  2. "Yesterdays" - 3:50
  3. "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" - 3:47
  4. "Funny Man" - 3:45
  5. "The Shadow of Your Smile " - 8:03
  6. "Little Lulu" - 2:50
  7. "Quiet Now" - 7:53

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