Consecration: The Final Recordings Part 2

Track listing

All compositions by Bill Evans except as indicated

Disc One:

"Re: Person I Knew" - 5:54
"Tiffany" - 5:46
"My Foolish Heart
My Foolish Heart (song)
"My Foolish Heart" is a popular song that was published in 1949.The music was written by Victor Young and the lyrics by Ned Washington. The song was introduced by the singer Martha Mears in the 1949 film of the same name. The song failed to escape critics' general laceration of the film...

" (Ned Washington
Ned Washington
Ned Washington was an American lyricist.-Biography:Washington was nominated for eleven Academy Awards from 1940 to 1962...

, Victor Young
Victor Young
Victor Young was an American composer, arranger, violinist and conductor. He was born in Chicago.-Biography:...

) - 5:24
"Song from M*A*S*H (Suicide Is Painless)
Suicide Is Painless
"Suicide Is Painless" is a song written by Johnny Mandel and Mike Altman , which is best known for being featured as the theme song for both the movie and TV series M*A*S*H. The actual title is "Song from M*A*S*H" ". Mike Altman is the son of the original film's director, Robert Altman, and was 14...

" (Mike Altman, Johnny Mandel
Johnny Mandel
Johnny Mandel is an American composer and arranger of popular songs, film music and jazz. Among the musicians he has worked with are Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Anita O'Day, Barbra Streisand, and Shirley Horn.-Life:...

) - 4:27
"Knit for Mary F." - 8:11
"Days of Wine and Roses
Days of Wine and Roses (song)
"Days of Wine and Roses" is a popular song, from the 1962 movie of the same name.The music was written by Henry Mancini with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. They received the Academy Award for Best Original Song for their work...

" (Henry Mancini
Henry Mancini
Henry Mancini was an American composer, conductor and arranger, best remembered for his film and television scores. He won a record number of Grammy Awards , plus a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously in 1995...

, Johnny Mercer
Johnny Mercer
John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer was an American lyricist, songwriter and singer. He is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music. He was also a popular singer who recorded his own songs as well as those written by others...

) - 9:42
"Your Story" - 5:02
"The Two Lonely People" (Evans, Carol Hall
Carol Hall
Carol Hall is an American composer and lyricist, born in Abilene, Texas.Hall is best known for composing the music and lyrics for the Broadway stage musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas...

) - 8:11
"My Romance
My Romance (song)
"My Romance" is a popular song, with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart, written for Billy Rose's musical, Jumbo . In the 1962 movie version of Jumbo, Doris Day performed the song....

" (Lorenz Hart
Lorenz Hart
Lorenz "Larry" Milton Hart was the lyricist half of the famed Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart...

, Richard Rodgers
Richard Rodgers
Richard Charles Rodgers was an American composer of music for more than 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals. He also composed music for films and television. He is best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II...

) - 11:15

Disc Two:

"Tiffany" - 6:19
"Polka Dots and Moonbeams
Polka Dots and Moonbeams
"Polka Dots and Moonbeams" is a popular song with music by Jimmy Van Heusen and lyrics by Johnny Burke, published in 1940. It was Frank Sinatra's first hit recorded with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra...

" (Johnny Burke
Johnny Burke (lyricist)
Johnny Burke was a lyricist, widely regarded as one of the finest writers of popular songs in America between the 1920s and 1950s.-Biography:...

, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 7:20
"Like Someone in Love
Like Someone in Love
Like Someone in Love is an album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, with a studio orchestra arranged and conducted by Frank DeVol...

(Burke, Van Heusen) - 7:46
"Letter to Evan" - 8:59
"Gary's Theme" (Gary McFarland
Gary McFarland
Gary McFarland was an influential composer, arranger, vibraphonist and vocalist, prominent on Verve and Impulse! Records during the 1960s, when he made "one of the more significant contributors to orchestral jazz"...

) - 7:15
"Days of Wine and Roses" (Mancini, Mercer) - 8:36
"I Do It for Your Love" (Paul Simon
Paul Simon
Paul Frederic Simon is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.Simon is best known for his success, beginning in 1965, as part of the duo Simon & Garfunkel, with musical partner Art Garfunkel. Simon wrote most of the pair's songs, including three that reached number one on the US singles...

) - 7:01
"My Romance" (Hart, Rodgers) - 9:19

Disc Three:

"Re: Person I Knew" - 5:04
"Tiffany" - 5:50
"Knit for Mary F." - 6:44
"Like Someone in Love" (Burke, Van Heusen) - 7:12
"Your Story" - 4:42
"Someday My Prince Will Come" (Frank Churchill
Frank Churchill
Frank Churchill was an American composer of popular music for films. He wrote most of the music for Disney's 1937 movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, including "Whistle While You Work" and "Some Day My Prince Will Come"...

, Larry Morey
Larry Morey
Larry Morey was an American lyricist, who was responsible for co-writing some of the most successful songs in Disney movies of the 1930s and 1940s, including "Heigh-Ho", "Some Day My Prince Will Come", and "Whistle While You Work"...

) - 7:20
"I Do It for Your Love" (Simon) - 6:18
"My Romance" (Hart, Rodgers) - 10:10

Disc Four:

"Re: Person I Knew" - 5:06
"Tiffany" - 5:56
"Polka Dots and Moonbeams" (Burke, Van Heusen) - 7:07
"Song from M*A*S*H (Suicide Is Painless)" (Altman, Mandel) - 5:03
"Your Story" - 4:43
"Like Someone in Love" (Burke, Van Heusen) - 6:48
"Knit for Mary F." - 6:51
"The Two Lonely People" (Evans, Hall) - 8:23
"My Romance" (Hart, Rodgers) - 9:28

Disc Five:

"Up With the Lark" (Jerome Kern
Jerome Kern
Jerome David Kern was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music. One of the most important American theatre composers of the early 20th century, he wrote more than 700 songs, used in over 100 stage works, including such classics as "Ol' Man River", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", "A...

, Leo Robin
Leo Robin
Leo Robin was an American composer, lyricist and songwriter. He is probably best known for collaborating with Ralph Rainger on the 1938 Oscar-winning song "Thanks for the Memory," sung by Bob Hope in the film The Big Broadcast of 1938.-Biography:Robin was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and...

) - 7:15
"Mornin' Glory" (Bobby Gentry) - 4:07
"Polka Dots and Moonbeams" (Burke, Van Heusen) - 6:38
"Like Someone in Love" (Burke, Van Heusen) - 7:21
"Turn Out the Stars" - 8:36
"Your Story" - 4:36
"Emily
Emily (Johnny Mandel and Johnny Mercer song)
"Emily" is a popular song composed by Johnny Mandel, with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. It was the title song to the 1964 film The Americanization of Emily, where it was introduced by Julie Andrews. It has since been recorded by numerous artists, notably Bill Evans and Tony Bennett...

" (Johnny Mandel
Johnny Mandel
Johnny Mandel is an American composer and arranger of popular songs, film music and jazz. Among the musicians he has worked with are Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Anita O'Day, Barbra Streisand, and Shirley Horn.-Life:...

, Johnny Mercer
Johnny Mercer
John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer was an American lyricist, songwriter and singer. He is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music. He was also a popular singer who recorded his own songs as well as those written by others...

) - 5:10
"I Do It for Your Love" (Simon) - 6:15
"My Romance" (Hart, Rodgers) - 8:57

Disc Six:

"Re: Person I Knew" - 4:37
"Tiffany" - 5:33
"Knit for Mary F." - 6:52
"My Foolish Heart" (Washington, Young) - 4:54
"Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)
Who Can I Turn To?
"Who Can I Turn To?" is a popular song. It may be titled "Who Can I Turn To ".It was written by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley and published in 1964. The song was introduced in the musical The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd, which struggled in the United Kingdom in 1964 and...

" (Leslie Bricusse
Leslie Bricusse
Leslie Bricusse is an English composer, lyricist, and playwright.Although best known for his partnership with Anthony Newley, Bricusse has worked with many other composers. He was educated at University College School in London and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge...

, Anthony Newley
Anthony Newley
Anthony George Newley was an English actor, singer and songwriter. He enjoyed success as a performer in such diverse fields as rock and roll and stage and screen acting.-Early life:...

) - 6:20
"Emily" (Mandel, Mercer) - 4:48
"Laurie" - 8:05
"You and the Night and the Music
You and the Night and the Music
"You and the Night and the Music" is a popular song composed by Arthur Schwartz with lyrics by Howard Dietz.The song was debuted in the Broadway show Revenge with Music. The show originally opened on November 28, 1934, ran for 22 performances, after which it closed. It then reopened on December...

" (Howard Dietz
Howard Dietz
Howard Dietz was an American publicist, lyricist, and librettist.-Biography:Dietz was born in New York City and studied journalism at Columbia University...

, Arthur Schwartz
Arthur Schwartz
Arthur Schwartz was an American composer and film producer.Schwartz supported his legal studies at New York University and postgraduate studies at Columbia University by playing piano before concentrating his talents on vaudeville, Broadway theatre and Hollywood.Among his Broadway musicals are The...

) - 6:21

Disc Seven:

"Re: Person I Knew" - 4:36
"Laurie" - 7:02
"Bill's Hit Tune" - 7:35
"The Two Lonely People" (Evans, Hall) - 7:53
"Song from M*A*S*H (Suicide Is Painless)" (Altman, Mandel) - 4:17
"My Foolish Heart" (Washington, Young) - 4:13
"Days of Wine and Roses" (Mancini, Mercer) - 8:23
"But Beautiful
But Beautiful (song)
"But Beautiful" is a popular song with music written by Jimmy Van Heusen, the lyrics by Johnny Burke. The song was published in 1947.One of five songs written by Burke and Van Heusen featured in the Paramount Pictures movie Road to Rio , it was introduced by Bing Crosby and is also associated with...

" (Burke, Van Heusen) - 3:11

Disc Eight:

"Emily" (Mandel, Mercer) - 4:47
"Polka Dots and Moonbeams" (Burke, Van Heusen) - 6:17
"Like Someone in Love" (Burke, Van Heusen) - 6:51
"Your Story" - 4:20
"Days of Wine and Roses" (Mancini, Mercer) - 7:55
"Knit for Mary F." - 6:27
"Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)" (Bricusse, Newley) - 5:01
"I Do It for Your Love" (Simon) - 5:46
"My Romance" (Hart, Rodgers) - 9:03
- Recorded at Keystone Korner, San Francisco on August 31 (disc 1), September 1 (disc 2), September 2 (disc 3), September 3 (disc 4), September 4, (disc 5), September 5 (disc 6), September 6 (disc 7), and September 7 (disc 8), 1980.

Personnel

Bill Evans
Bill Evans
William John Evans, known as Bill Evans was an American jazz pianist. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines influenced a generation of pianists including: Chick Corea, Herbie...

- piano
Piano
The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
Marc Johnson - bass
Double bass
The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...
Joe LaBarbera
Joe LaBarbera
Joe LaBarbera is an American jazz drummer and composer. He is best known for his recordings and live performances with the trio of pianist Bill Evans in the final years of Evans's career. Prior to joining Evans he worked in the quartet of Chuck Mangione and Joe Farrell.- Early life :He was born...

- drums
Drum kit
A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

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