Jazz pianist Bill Evans celebrated with massive 22xLP vinyl box set

The complete Riverside recordings in one place.

Genius jazz pianist Bill Evans is to be celebrated with an 11-album vinyl box set on Anthology Productions.

One of the most important pianists of all time, Evans cut several quietly evocative trio LPs for jazz label Riverside, including the timeless Waltz For Debby and Sunday At The Village Vanguard releases, recorded during the same sessions in June 1961, ten days before bassist Scott La Faro was killed in a car accident. They are among the greatest jazz LPs ever made.

As well as album’s recorded under his own name the box set will include Cannonball Adderley’s Know What I Mean? (with whom Evans played on Miles Davis’ seminal Kind Of Blue).

All titles included in the collection are: New Jazz Conceptions, Everybody Digs Bill Evans, Portrait In Jazz, Explorations, Sunday At The Village Vanguard, Waltz For Debby, Moonbeams, Know What I Mean?, Interplay, How My Heart Sings! and At Shelly’s Manne-Hole.

Bill Evans – Riverside Recordings will be released on 19th May.