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Further Conversations with Myself
Studio album by Bill Evans
Released	December 1967
Recorded	August 9, 1967
Venue	Webster Hall, New York City
Genre	Jazz
Length	35:03
Label	Verve V6-8727
Producer	Helen Keane
Bill Evans chronology
A Simple Matter of Conviction (1966) Further Conversations with Myself (1967) California Here I Come (1967)

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. This time, however, he employed only two piano tracks instead of three. The album was nominated for a Grammy. It was reissued on CD by Verve in 1999.

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings

Writing for AllMusic, music critic Scott Yanow called the album "A thoughtful and (despite the overdubbing) spontaneous sounding set of melodic music." Peter Pettinger notes that it "opens with the arresting beauty of that new title in the Evans book, Johnny Mandel's 'Emily,' a fresh bloom that was to become a great favorite. The same composer's Academy Award-winning 'The Shadow of Your Smile,' from the 1965 film The Sandpiper, received a probing performance, one of the most concentrated of Evans's career, developing with increasing insistence and relentless pace .... By contrast, a stark emotional directness was brought to Denny Zeitlin's fine tune 'Quiet Now,' another Evans mainstay-in-the-making."

Track listing

1. "Emily" (Johnny Mandel, Johnny Mercer) - 4:56
2. "Yesterdays" (Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern) - 3:50
3. "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie) - 3:47
4. "Funny Man" (Bill Evans) - 3:45
5. "The Shadow of Your Smile (Love Theme from "The Sandpiper")" (Mandel, Paul Francis Webster) - 8:03
6. "Little Lulu" (Buddy Kaye, Sidney Lippman, Fred Wise) - 2:50
7. "Quiet Now" (Denny Zeitlin) - 7:53

Credits

• Bill Evans - overdubbed pianos
• Ray Hall - engineer

References

1. Dec 23, 1967 Billboard magazine
2. Pettinger, Peter, Bill Evans: How My Heart Sings, Yale University Press, 1998, pp. 186-87.
3. Verve Music Group web site entry.
4. ^ Yanow, Scott. "Further Conversations with Myself > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved June 28, 2011.
5. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 457. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
6. Pettinger, p. 186.

External links

• Jazz Discography entries for Bill Evans
• Bill Evans Memorial Library discography

• 1967 albums
• Verve Records albums
• Bill Evans albums