The Bill Evans Album is an album by 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 1971.

At the Grammy Awards of 1972

Grammy Awards of 1972

The 14th Grammy Awards were held March 15, 1972, and were broadcast live on television in the United States by ABC; the following year, they would move the telecasts to CBS, where they remain to this date...

, The Bill Evans Album won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Solo

Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Solo

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 and the Best Jazz Performance by a Group

Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group

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 awards.

The Bill Evans Memorial Library states it is the first recording in which Evans used a Fender Rhodes

Rhodes piano

The Rhodes piano is an electro-mechanical piano, invented by Harold Rhodes during the fifties and later manufactured in a number of models, first in collaboration with Fender and after 1965 by CBS....

 piano.

The Bill Evans Album was reissued with three bonus alternate tracks by Sony

Sony Music Entertainment

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 in 2005.

Track listing

All songs by Bill Evans unless otherwise noted.

1. "Comrade Conrad" – 7:49
2. "Two Lonely People" (Bill Evans, Carol Hall) – 6:13
3. "Funkallero" – 7:05
4. "Sugar Plum
   Sugar Plum (jazz song)
   "Sugar Plum" is a jazz song by American jazz pianist Bill Evans . It features on The Bill Evans Album . Evans reportedly wrote the song for his wife Nenette Evans. The form of the song is an extension of the typical jazz standard...
   
   " – 7:45
5. "Waltz for Debby" (Evans, Lees) – 6:40
6. "Re: Person I Knew" – 5:55
7. "T.T.T. (Twelve Tone Tune)" – 7:39

   2005 reissue bonus tracks:

8. "Waltz for Debby
   Waltz for Debby (song)
   "Waltz for Debby" is a jazz standard composed by Bill Evans. A piano trio jazz waltz, it was first recorded on Evans's 1956 album New Jazz Conceptions and, perhaps more famously, on his 1961 live album Waltz for Debby. It has been recorded by many artists, both as an instrumental and as a vocal piece...
   
   " [alternate take] (Evans, Gene Lees) – 7:52
9. "Re: Person I Knew" [alternate take] – 7:21
10. "Funkallero" [alternate take] – 6:10

Credits

• 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...
  
   - piano, fender rhodes
• Eddie Gomez
  Eddie Gomez
  Edgar "Eddie" Gómez is a Puerto Rican jazz double bassist born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, perhaps most notable for his work done with the Bill Evans trio from 1966 to 1977.-Biography:...
  
   – bass
• Marty Morell
  Marty Morell
  Marty Morell is a drummer, percussionist, vibraphonist and producer who played with the Bill Evans Trio for seven years - longer than any other drummer. Morell attended the Manhattan School of Music and studied mallets with Morris Goldberg, and tympani with Saul Goodman at the Juilliard School of...
  
   – drums

Production notes

• Helen Keane – producer
• Peter Weiss – engineer, mixing
• Orrin Keepnews
  Orrin Keepnews
  Orrin Keepnews is an American writer and jazz record producer. In June 2010, he received a lifetime achievement award from the National Endowment for the Arts.- Career :...
  
  – reissue producer
• Mark Wilder – remastering
• John Berg – art direction
• Fred Binkley – liner notes
• Don Hunstein – photography
• Seth Rothstein – project director
• Paula Wood – art direction, design

Chart positions

Year	Chart	Position
1971	Billboard Jazz Albums	14