Social Media – Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat – Celebrates The Legacy Of Bill Evans With “Up With The Lark” From The First-Ever Career-Spanning Collection, Everybody Still Digs Bill Evans: A Career Retrospective (1956–1980)
Social Media – Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat — celebrates the legacy of Bill Evans with “Up With The Lark” from the first-ever career-spanning collection, Everybody Still Digs Bill Evans: A Career Retrospective (1956–1980) released in 2021. Concord Records’ Craft Recordings proudly honors the pioneering jazz artist Bill Evans, and his enduring musical contributions with a deluxe, five-CD box set and digital album, titled Everybody Still Digs Bill Evans: A Career Retrospective (1956–1980), featuring over 60 tracks that spotlight Evans’ exceptional work as a leader and co-leader. The expansive set also includes a previously unreleased live performance from 1975, captured at Oil Can Harry’s in Vancouver, B.C. This digital album was released with the previously unheard live track “Up with the Lark” (Live), composed by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Leo Robin.
Everybody Still Digs Bill Evans: A Career Retrospective (1956–1980) spans the pianist’s Riverside, Milestone, Fantasy, Verve, Warner Bros., and Elektra/Musician catalogs, and features such collective personnel as Tony Bennett, Cannonball Adderley, 
Kenny Burrell, Stan Getz, Zoot Sims, Eddie Gomez, Shelly Manne, and Lee Konitz, among many others. Produced by Nick Phillips, the five-CD collection includes newly remastered audio by GRAMMY®-winning engineer, Paul Blakemore and immaculately so: the audio quality is off-the-scale superb. The majority of the box set’s musical selections are culled from Evans’ trios, with whom he released over 40 albums.
Indeed, Zigmund knew he was on a different plane entirely, playing alongside Evans. In the notes for Everybody Still Digs Bill Evans, Tesser proclaims, “In the history of 20th-century piano, the music of Bill Evans constitutes an inflection point…. There have been only a handful of pianists…whose innovations so strongly altered the prevailing aesthetic that the timeline breaks down into ‘before’ and ‘after.’”
One of the most influential artists in the history of jazz, Bill Evans (1929–1980) was known for his conversational interplay within his trios, his lyrical compositions, and his matchless approach to the piano. In less than three decades, the prolific artist released over 50 albums as a leader, garnering seven GRAMMY® Awards, 31 GRAMMY® nominations and two inductions into the GRAMMY® Hall of Fame. In 1994, he was honored posthumously with the GRAMMY® Lifetime Achievement Award. Cited as an influence by everyone from Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea to Eliane Elias and Robert Glasper, Bill Evans’ work continues to inspire new generations of musicians today.