Empathy (album)

Empathy
Studio album by Bill Evans and Shelly Manne
Released November 1962[1]
Recorded August 14, 1962
New York City
Genre Jazz
Length 34:54
Label Verve
V6-8497
Producer Creed Taylor
Bill Evans chronology
Interplay
(1962)		 Empathy
(1962)		 The Gary McFarland Orchestra
(1963)
Shelly Manne chronology
2-3-4
(1962)		 Empathy
(1962)		 My Son the Jazz Drummer!
(1962)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Down Beat[2]
Allmusic[3]

Empathy is a 1962 album by jazz musicians Bill Evans and Shelly Manne. It was Evans's first album for Verve Records, after he was released from his contract with Riverside Records, and the two musicians' first collaboration. The sculpture on the cover was by Sheldon Machlin.

Reception

Leonard Feather had this to say about the album in his April 11, 1963 review in Down Beat magazine: "Essentially the focus is on Evans, as it should be; yet because of the skill with which he and Manne cooperated, one is often conscious that an important interplay is involved, one that lifts the results far out of the normal piano-with-rhythm class."[2]

Track listing

  1. "The Washington Twist" (Irving Berlin) – 6:26
  2. "Danny Boy" (Frederick Weatherly) - 3:42
  3. "Let's Go Back to the Waltz" (Berlin) – 4:30
  4. "With a Song in My Heart" (Rodgers, Hart) - 9:12
  5. "Goodbye" (Gordon Jenkins) - 5:12
  6. "I Believe in You" (Frank Loesser) - 5:52

Credits

References

  1. ↑ Nov 24, 1962
  2. 1 2 Down Beat: April 11, 1963 vol. 30, no. 9
  3. ↑ Nathan, Dave (2011). "Empathy - Bill Evans | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 18 July 2011.

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