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The Bill Evans Album
1971 studio album by Bill Evans
The Bill Evans Album is an album by the jazz pianist Bill Evans, released in 1971. It is his first album to feature all compositions written (or co-written), arranged and performed by Evans.
At the Grammy Awards of 1972, The Bill Evans Album won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Solo and the Best Jazz Performance by a Group awards.
The Bill Evans Memorial Library states it is the first recording in which Evans used a Fender Rhodes piano.[4]
The title of the song "Re: Person I Knew" (recorded first on an earlier record in 1962, Moon Beams) is an anagram of the name of Evans' longtime producer, Orrin Keepnews.[5]
The cover image is based on a photograph taken by music photographer Don Hunstein.
The Bill Evans Album was reissued with three bonus alternative tracks by Sony in 2005.