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Alone is a solo piano album by jazz musician Bill Evans, recorded in the fall of 1968 for Verve Records, featuring a particularly notable 14+-minute performance of the jazz standard "Never Let Me Go". Evans contributed notes to the album, including the following statement:
Never Let Me Go is the eighth album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine recorded for the Blue Note label and performed by Turrentine with Shirley Scott, Major Holley, Ray Barretto and Al Harewood, with Sam Jones and Clarence Johnston replacing Holley, Barretto and Harewood on two tracks.
Without a Song" is a popular song composed by Vincent Youmans with lyrics later added by Billy Rose and Edward Eliscu, published in 1929. It was included in the musical play, Great Day. The play only ran for 36 performances, and also included the songs "More Than You Know" and "Great Day". [1]
This is an A–Z list of jazz tunes which have been covered by multiple jazz artists. It includes the more popular jazz standards, lesser-known or minor standards, and many other songs and compositions which may have entered a jazz musician's or jazz singer's repertoire or be featured in the Real Books, but may not be performed as regularly or as widely as many of the popular standards.
"Never Let Me Go", 2000 song by Bono and The Million Dollar Hotel Band, from The Million Dollar Hotel soundtrack "Never Let Me Go" (The Black Sorrows song), 1990 "Never Let Me Go", 1956 song written by Evans and Livingston and sung by Nat King Cole, from the film The Scarlet Hour "Never Let Me Go" (Johnny Ace song), 1954
Quiet Now is an album by jazz pianist Bill Evans, recorded in 1969.It was released in 1981 on the Affinity label. [2] The same recordings were officially released in 2021 in cooperation with the Bill Evans estate as part of the album Behind The Dikes.
"Never Let Me Go" is a downtempo baroque pop ballad with elements of indie pop. [12] [13] It has a piano-led instrumentation accompanied by thumping drums.[14] [15] Lyrically, the theme of the song revolves around the sea and the ocean, interpreted in the lines "The arms of the ocean so sweet and so cold/And all this devotion I never knew at all".
William John Evans (August 16, 1929 – September 15, 1980) was an American jazz pianist and composer who worked primarily as the leader of his trio. [2] His use of impressionist harmony, block chords, innovative chord voicings, and trademark rhythmically independent "singing" melodic lines continue to influence jazz pianists today.