Name
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Year of composition
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Year of first recording
|
First recording
|
Notes
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Are You All the Things |
|
1974 |
Intuition |
A contrafact based on Jerome Kern's classic "All the Things You Are," which rearranges the words of its title
|
B Minor Waltz |
|
1977 |
You Must Believe in Spring |
For ex-girlfriend Ellaine, who committed suicide.
|
Bill's Belle |
1965–67 (appr.) |
– |
– |
Posthumous
|
Bill's Hit Tune |
|
1979 |
We Will Meet Again |
|
Blue in Green |
1959 |
1959 |
Kind of Blue |
Miles Davis claimed authorship, but Evans, Earl Zindars, and many jazz historians have maintained that it was Evans who composed it (or at least co-wrote it).
|
C Minor Blues Chase |
1965–67 (appr.) |
– |
– |
Posthumous
|
Carnival |
1965–67 (appr.) |
– |
– |
Posthumous
|
Catch the Wind |
1965–67 (appr.) |
– |
– |
Posthumous
|
Children's Play Song |
|
1970 |
From Left to Right |
|
Chromatic Tune |
1965–67 (appr.) |
– |
– |
Posthumous
|
Comrade Conrad |
|
1971 |
The Bill Evans Album |
The tune originated as a Crest toothpaste jingle. It was later elaborated and dedicated to Conrad Mendenhall, a friend who had died in a car accident.
|
Displacement |
|
1956 |
New Jazz Conceptions |
|
Epilogue |
|
1959 |
Everybody Digs Bill Evans |
Short solo
|
Evanesque |
|
1980 (unfinished) |
|
Completed and first recorded by Eliane Elias on her tribute album Something for You (2008)
|
Five |
|
1956 |
New Jazz Conceptions |
Like many jazz tunes, it's based on the chords of "I Got Rhythm." It was for some years the Bill Evans Trio signature tune.
|
For Nenette |
|
1978 |
New Conversations |
For Evans' wife. There is also a lyric version titled "In April"
|
Fudgesickle Built for Two |
|
1962 |
Loose Blues |
Released in 1982
|
Fun Ride |
|
1962 |
Loose Blues |
Released in 1982
|
Funkallero |
|
1956 |
Tenderly: An Informal Session |
Recorded with Don Elliott and released posthumously in 2001
|
Funny Man |
|
1967 |
Further Conversations with Myself |
|
G Waltz |
|
1967 |
California Here I Come |
|
Here Is Something for You |
|
1980 (unfinished) |
|
From a private cassette recording; completed and recorded with added lyrics by Eliane Elias on her tribute album Something for You (2008)
|
Interplay |
|
1962 |
Interplay |
|
It's Love – It's Christmas |
1965–67 (appr.) |
– |
– |
Posthumous, lyrics also by Bill Evans
|
Knit for Mary F |
|
1980 |
Letter to Evan |
For fan Mary Franksen
|
Know What I Mean? |
|
1961 |
Know What I Mean? |
Piece for Cannonball Adderley's homonymous album
|
Laurie |
1979 |
1979 |
We Will Meet Again |
For girlfriend Laurie Verchomin
|
Letter to Evan |
|
1979 |
The Paris Concert: Edition Two |
Written for his son Evan Evans, born in 1975
|
Loose Bloose |
|
1962 |
Loose Blues |
Released in 1982
|
Maxine |
|
1978 |
New Conversations |
For his stepdaughter, Nenette's daughter
|
My Bells |
|
1962 |
Loose Blues |
Released in 1982; first appeared on Bill Evans Trio with Symphony Orchestra in 1966
|
N.Y.C.'s No Lark |
1963 |
1963 |
Conversations with Myself |
Anagram of the name of pianist Sonny Clark, a personal friend who died in 1963
|
One For Helen |
|
1966 |
Bill Evans at Town Hall |
For manager Helen Keane
|
Only Child |
|
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|
|
Orbit |
|
1966 |
A Simple Matter of Conviction |
a.k.a. Unless It's You
|
Peace Piece |
|
1958 |
Everybody Digs Bill Evans |
Improvised solo, loosely based on Leonard Bernstein's "Some Other Time"
|
Peri's Scope |
|
1959 |
Portrait in Jazz |
For girlfriend Peri Cousins
|
Prologue |
|
1966 |
Bill Evans at Town Hall |
Prologue to the solo titled "In Memory of His Father Harry L."
|
Re: Person I Knew |
|
1962 |
Moon Beams |
Anagram of the name of his friend producer Orrin Keepnews
|
Remembering the Rain |
|
1978 |
New Conversations |
|
Show Type Tune |
|
1962 |
How My Heart Sings! |
|
A Simple Matter of Conviction |
|
1966 |
A Simple Matter of Conviction |
|
Since We Met |
|
1974 |
Since We Met |
Dedicated to and titled by his wife Nanette
|
34 Skidoo |
|
1962 |
How My Heart Sings! |
|
Song for Helen |
|
1978 |
New Conversations |
For manager Helen Keane
|
Song No.1 |
|
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|
First recorded by Chick Corea in 2010
|
Story Line |
|
1966 |
Bill Evans at Town Hall |
Part of the solo titled "In Memory of His Father Harry L."
|
Sugar Plum |
|
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|
|
The Opener |
|
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|
Theme (What You Gave) |
1965–67 (appr.) |
– |
– |
Posthumous
|
There Came You |
|
1962 |
Loose Blues |
Released in 1982
|
These Things Called Changes |
|
1966 |
A Simple Matter of Conviction |
|
Tiffany |
|
1980 |
Turn Out the Stars: The Final Village Vanguard Recordings |
For Joe LaBarbera's daughter
|
Time Out for Chris |
|
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|
|
Time Remembered |
|
1962 |
Loose Blues |
Released in 1982; first appeared on Bill Evans Trio with Symphony Orchestra in 1966
|
Turn Out the Stars |
|
1966 |
Bill Evans at Town Hall |
First appeared in "In Memory of His Father Harry L.," an extended solo featuring other pieces; lyrics by Gene Lees
|
T.T.T. (Twelve Tone Tune) |
|
1971 |
The Bill Evans Album |
Based on a tone row
|
T.T.T.T. (Twelve Tone Tune Two) |
|
1973 |
The Tokyo Concert |
Based on a tone row
|
The Two Lonely People |
|
1971 |
The Bill Evans Album |
Lyrics by Carol Hall for the performance of the song by Tony Bennett
|
Very Early |
1949 (appr.) |
1962 |
Moon Beams |
Evans's first-known tune composed when he was an undergraduate
|
Walkin' Up |
|
1962 |
How My Heart Sings! |
|
Waltz for Debby |
1953 (appr.) |
1956 |
New Jazz Conceptions |
Written for his then recently born niece; lyrics later added by Gene Lees
|
Waltz in E♭ |
1965–67 (appr.) |
– |
– |
Posthumous
|
We Will Meet Again |
|
1977 |
You Must Believe in Spring |
For his brother Harry; lyrics by Bill Evans (heard in recordings by others such as Tierney Sutton)
|
Yet Ne'er Broken |
|
|
|
An anagram of the name of cocaine dealer Robert Kenney
|
Your Story |
|
1980 |
Letter to Evan |
|