New Conversations is an album by American

United States

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 jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 pianist Bill Evans

Bill Evans

William John Evans, known as Bill Evans was an American jazz pianist. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines influenced a generation of pianists including: Chick Corea, Herbie...

, released in 1978.

New Conversations is Evans' third and final release in which he overdubs

Overdubbing

Overdubbing is a technique used by recording studios to add a supplementary recorded sound to a previously recorded performance....

 different piano tracks with his previously played track. The first release recorded in this manner was Conversations with Myself

Conversations with Myself

Conversations with Myself is a 1963 album by American jazz musician Bill Evans.-History:Recorded at three different studio sessions on February 6 and 9, and May 20, 1963, Evans recorded the album using the then controversial method of overdubbing three different yet corresponding piano tracks for...

followed by Further Conversations with Myself

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...

. A noteworthy difference in this release is that he also uses electric as well as acoustic piano.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow

Scott Yanow

Scott Yanow is an American jazz commentator, known for many contributions to the Allmusic website, for writing ten books on jazz and for reviewing jazz recordings for over 30 years.-Biography:...

 awarded the album 3 stars writing "the results are less memorable than one might expect for Bill Evans seemed always at his best in trio settings.".

Track listing

All songs by Bill Evans unless otherwise noted.

1. "Song for Helen" – 7:48
2. "Nobody Else But Me" (Oscar Hammerstein II
   Oscar Hammerstein II
   Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II was an American librettist, theatrical producer, and theatre director of musicals for almost forty years. Hammerstein won eight Tony Awards and was twice awarded an Academy Award for "Best Original Song". Many of his songs are standard repertoire for...
   
   , Jerome Kern
   Jerome Kern
   Jerome David Kern was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music. One of the most important American theatre composers of the early 20th century, he wrote more than 700 songs, used in over 100 stage works, including such classics as "Ol' Man River", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", "A...
   
   ) – 4:38
3. "Maxine" – 4:40
4. "For Nenette" – 7:19
5. "I Love My Wife" (Cy Coleman
   Cy Coleman
   Cy Coleman was an American composer, songwriter, and jazz pianist.-Life and career:He was born Seymour Kaufman on June 14, 1929, in New York City to Eastern European Jewish parents, and was raised in the Bronx. His mother, Ida was an apartment landlady and his father was a brickmason...
   
   , Michael Stewart) – 6:43
6. "Remembering the Rain" – 4:29
7. "After You" (Cole Porter
   Cole Porter
   Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter. Born to a wealthy family in Indiana, he defied the wishes of his domineering grandfather and took up music as a profession. Classically trained, he was drawn towards musical theatre...
   
   ) – 3:39
8. "Reflections in D" (Duke Ellington
   Duke Ellington
   Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and big band leader. Ellington wrote over 1,000 compositions...
   
   ) – 7:00

Personnel

• Bill Evans – piano, keyboards

Production notes

• Helen Keane – producer
• Frank Laico – engineer, mixing
• Nat Hentoff
  Nat Hentoff
  Nathan Irving "Nat" Hentoff is an American historian, novelist, jazz and country music critic, and syndicated columnist for United Media and writes regularly on jazz and country music for The Wall Street Journal....
  
  – liner notes

Chart positions

Year	Chart	Position
1978	Billboard Jazz Albums	35

External links

• The Bill Evans Memorial Library