{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums --> | name = Montreux II | type = live | artist = Bill Evans | cover = Montreux II.jpg | released = 1970 | recorded = June 19 & 20, 1970 | venue = Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreux, Switzerland | genre = Jazz | length = 33:13 | label = CTI | producer = Helen Keane | chronology = Bill Evans | prev_title = From Left to Right | prev_year = 1970 | next_title = The Bill Evans Album | next_year = 1971 }} '''''Montreux II''''' is a live album by jazz pianist Bill Evans with Eddie Gómez and Marty Morell, recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland in 1970 and released on the CTI label.<ref name="Evans disco">[https://www.jazzdisco.org/bill-evans/catalog/#cti-6004 Bill Evans discography] accessed March 19, 2010</ref> The album was the second of Evans' Montreux concert recordings to be released, following the Grammy Award-winning ''Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival'' (1968).
==Reception== The Allmusic review by Ken Dryden awarded the album 3½ stars and stated, "While this is a terrific live performance, there are sound problems, including what sounds like bleeding of the stage monitors into the mix, and there are muddy spots in the recording as well".<ref name="Allmusic">Dryden, K. [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r164953|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic Review] accessed March 19, 2010</ref> {{Music ratings | rev1 = ''Allmusic'' | rev1Score = {{rating|3.5|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> |rev2 = ''The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide'' | rev2Score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name=RSJRG>{{Cite book |editor-last=Swenson |editor-first=J. | author-link = | year = 1985 | title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide |url=https://archive.org/details/rollingstonejazz00swen |url-access=registration | publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone | location = USA | isbn = 0-394-72643-X | pages = [https://archive.org/details/rollingstonejazz00swen/page/73 73] }}</ref> |rev3 = ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings'' |rev3score = {{Rating|3|4}}<ref name="Penguin">{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=457}}</ref> }}
==Track listing== :''All compositions by Bill Evans except as indicated'' # ''Introduction'' - 1:11 # "Very Early" - 5:27 # "Alfie" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) - 5:30 # "34 Skidoo" - 6:37 # "How My Heart Sings" (Earl Zindars) - 4:16 # "Israel" (John Carisi) - 4:14 # "I Hear a Rhapsody" (Jack Baker, George Fragos, Dick Gasparre) - 5:54 # "Peri's Scope" - 6:00 :*Recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Casino De Montreux, Switzerland on June 19 & 20, 1970.
==Personnel== *Bill Evans - piano *Eddie Gómez - bass *Marty Morell - drums
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