[PRE-ORDER] Bill Evans - How My Heart Sings [Original Jazz Classics Series] [Release Date: 12/04/2026]

Bill Evans's 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.

Format / LP
Released / 12/04/2026
Catalogue / CRF-243710
Barcode / 888072758988
Artist / Bill Evans
Label / Craft Recordings
Genre / Jazz