You Must Believe in Spring

Bill Evans | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Warner Bros / Wea
• ASIN: B000002KM0
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #135,885 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. B Minor Waltz (For Ellaine)

2. You Must Believe in Spring

3. Gary's Theme

4. We Will Meet Again (For Harry)

5. The Peacocks

6. Sometime Ago

7. Theme from M*A*S*H (Suicide Is Painless)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Quintessential Bill Evans, January 9, 2003

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Kenneth James Michael MacLean (Ann Arbor, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: You Must Believe in Spring (Audio CD)

I don't know how to review this CD, because when reviewing a Bill Evans album, my intellect gets in the way of the music. Every time I listen to this CD, it makes me soar, it inspires me, and sometimes, raises the hairs on the back of my neck as I am astounded by the beauty of it. Recorded 3 years before his death, this session is one of the most melodic the great pianist ever recorded. I don't think there is a pianist who ever lived who could create with the music as well as Evans. This recording is creative without being dense. Every note is distinctive, almost as if the pianist is holding each one for the listener's pleasure. This is an album of beautiful melodies, with really great production values. The music is inspirational and passionate. I rank this Evans recording as maybe my very favorite. The pianist on this date is authoritative, passionate, and above all, melodic. I'm making a hash of this review I know, but as I write this I am listening to the beautiful 'B Minor Waltz' and I am overwhelmed by a feeling of joy. That's what Bill Evans can do for you. Just buy this recording, I absolutely guarantee you will be happy with it. If there is such a thing as essential Bill Evans, this CD must be included.

22 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars essential but not quintessential, April 8, 2000

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Samuel Chell (Kenosha,, WI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: You Must Believe in Spring (Audio CD)

Bill Evans is the John Keats of the piano, a lyric poet whose tone, voicings and inventions are at once exquisitely sad and beautiful. The best periods in Evans' relatively short career were the early trios with LaFaro on bass, and his final trio with Marc Johnson. He was an artist who experienced a sudden resurgence of creative energy and spirit in his final days (listen to the performance recorded live in Paris, especially "I Loves You Porgy, for perhaps his most passionate outpouring of soul on record). The point is that for various reasons related to his habits and health as well as to the excessive amount of solo space given to Eddie Gomez, a virtuosic but frequently boring bassist, this album and much of his other work in the early and mid-seventies is not his very best. It's not the Evans' album to own if you plan to make it your only one.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars From tape to CD - still the Best, April 11, 2007

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Bob Akerman "Old Coot" (Salina, Kansas United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: You Must Believe in Spring (Audio CD)

I have enjoyed jazz since the 1930's. Bill Evans "You Must Believe in Spring" is still the best. I am writing my first review at 85 to tell you this music is understated - emotional and shows the value of dedicated talent - quality always endures - buy this CD - you will be playing it the rest of your life. Play this CD in the late night - pour a glass of wine - ponder life - you CAN cope.