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Bill Evans‘s return to full activity in 1962 came almost a year after his celebrated trio recordings at the Village Vanguard. Just ten days after that classic “live” session, bassist Scott LaFaro had died in a highway accident. Evans, deeply shaken, eventually reformed his trio with the same drummer (Paul Motian) and Chuck Israels on bass. Their first visit to a studio was for a dual purpose: to make an all-ballad-tempo album, Moonbeams, and this “normal” set at the same time.

It was producer Orrin Keepnews‘s thought that recording eight slow numbers in a row might prove unduly enervating; accordingly, the total two-album repertoire was interspersed over three days of recording and the net result was two excellent additions to the Evans catalogue.

Tracklist:

A1. How My Heart Sings [4:56]
A2. I Should Care [4:53]
A3. In Your Own Sweet Way [5:57]
A4. Walking Up [4:55]

B1. Summertime [5:58]
B2. 34 Skidoo [6:19]
B3. Ev’rything I Love [4:13]
B4. Show-Type Tune [4:23]