Since We Met

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{{Infobox album  | name = Since We Met | type = live | artist = The Bill Evans Trio | cover = Since We Met.jpg | released = 1976 | recorded = January 11 & 12, 1974 | genre = Jazz | length = 46:12 | label = Fantasy <small>F 9501</small> | producer = Helen Keane and Orrin Keepnews | chronology = Bill Evans | prev_title = Half Moon Bay | prev_year = 1973 | next_title = Re: Person I Knew | next_year = 1974 }} '''''Since We Met''''' is a live album by jazz pianist Bill Evans with Eddie Gómez and Marty Morell, recorded at the Village Vanguard in New York City in 1974 and released on the Fantasy label in 1976.<ref>[http://www.bsnpubs.com/fantasy/fantasy/05fantasy9500.html Fantasy Album Discography, Part 5: F-9500 to F-9599 Main Series (1976-1980) by David Edwards, Mike Callahan, Patrice Eyries, Randy Watts and Tim Neely (Last update: November 19, 2010)] Retrieved March 17, 2013</ref> Additional recordings from Evans's 1974 Village Vanguard performances were also issued on the album ''Re: Person I Knew'', released posthumously in 1981. ''Since We Met'' was digitally remastered and reissued as a CD in 1991 on Original Jazz Classics.<ref name="Evans disco">[http://www.jazzdisco.org/bill-evans/catalog/#fantasy-f-9501 Bill Evans discography] accessed March 22, 2010</ref><ref>{{Discogs release|release=3324759|name=''Since We Met''|type=album}} (Original Jazz Classics, OJCCD-622-2). Retrieved March 17, 2013</ref>

==Repertoire== The album features four compositions by others and three originals, including the first recorded version of the title track, which was dedicated to and named by Evans's wife, Nanette. Two other numbers, "See-Saw" from the 1973 musical of that title and "Sareen Jurer" by Evans's friend Earl Zindars, a composer he frequently covered, were new to his repertoire and intended for this album. Evans soon dropped "See-Saw," but "Sareen Jurer" was performed nightly by the trio for the next few years.<ref>Pettinger, Peter, ''Bill Evans: How My Heart Sings'', Yale University Press (1998), pp. 221-222.</ref> The other four compositions had all been recorded previously by Evans and remained in his repertoire to the end.<ref>"Bill Evans Discography," https://www.jazzdisco.org/bill-evans/discography/, JAZZDISCO.org, Accessed 27 May 2024.</ref>

==Reception== The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars and called it "a good example of Bill Evans' early-'70s trio as it typically sounded in clubs."<ref name="Allmusic">Yanow, S. [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r138453|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic Review] accessed March 22, 2010</ref> {{Music ratings | rev1 = ''Allmusic'' | rev1Score = {{rating|4|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=458}}</ref>}}

''All About Jazz'' critic Dan McClenaghan placed this album "Near or at the top" among Evans's later career recordings.<ref>McClenaghan, Dan, "The Bill Evans Trio: On A Monday Evening," https://www.allaboutjazz.com/on-a-monday-evening-bill-evans-fantasy-jazz-review-by-dan-mcclenaghan, AllAboutJazz.com, Accessed 27 May 2024.</ref>

The jazz critic and historian Ted Gioia notes that "Evans was a persistent champion of 'But Beautiful,' featuring it with his own trio as well as on all-star collaborations with Tony Bennett and Stan Getz. I especially like the less known version ... from the album ''Since We Met''{{mdash}}Evans's solo here captures a relaxed, conversational way of phrasing, almost as if some private lyrics known only to the pianist are in his mind as he constructs melodic lines to match them."<ref>Gioia, Ted, ''The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire'', Oxford University Press (2012), p. 49.</ref>

==Track listing== :''All compositions by Bill Evans except as indicated'' # "Since We Met" - 8:52 # "Midnight Mood" (Joe Zawinul) - 6:53 # "See-Saw" (Cy Coleman) - 6:53 # "Sareen Jurer" (Earl Zindars) - 6:39 # "Time Remembered" - 5:27 # "Turn Out the Stars" - 5:07 # "But Beautiful" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 6:21 :*Recorded at the Village Vanguard, New York City on January 11 & 12, 1974.

==Personnel== *Bill Evans - piano *Eddie Gómez - bass *Marty Morell - drums *Recorded and remixed by Michael De Lugg *Mastered by David Turner *Remastering (1991) - Phil De Lancie *Liner notes - Max Gordon *Cover painting - Ron Warwell

==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:Bill Evans live albums Category:1974 live albums Category:Fantasy Records live albums Category:Albums produced by Helen Keane (record producer) Category:Albums produced by Orrin Keepnews Category:Albums recorded at the Village Vanguard