Further Conversations with Myself

Further Conversations with Myself is a 1967 album by jazz pianist Bill Evans. All the pieces are solo with piano overdubs, a method Evans used on his earlier release Conversations with Myself. This time, however, he employed only two piano tracks instead of three. The album was nominated for a Grammy.^[2] It was reissued on CD by Verve in 1999.^[3]

Further Conversations with Myself
Studio album by Bill Evans
Released	December 1967[1]
Recorded	August 9, 1967
Venue	Webster Hall, New York City
Genre	Jazz
Length	35:03
Label	Verve V6-8727
Producer	Helen Keane
Bill Evans chronology
A Simple Matter of Conviction (1966) Further Conversations with Myself (1967) California Here I Come (1967)

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[5]

Writing for AllMusic, music critic Scott Yanow called the album "A thoughtful and (despite the overdubbing) spontaneous sounding set of melodic music."^[4] Peter Pettinger notes that it "opens with the arresting beauty of that new title in the Evans book, Johnny Mandel's 'Emily,' a fresh bloom that was to become a great favorite. The same composer's Academy Award-winning 'The Shadow of Your Smile,' from the 1965 film The Sandpiper, received a probing performance, one of the most concentrated of Evans's career, developing with increasing insistence and relentless pace .... By contrast, a stark emotional directness was brought to Denny Zeitlin's fine tune 'Quiet Now,' another Evans mainstay-in-the-making."^[6]

Track listing

1. "Emily" (Johnny Mandel, Johnny Mercer) - 4:56
2. "Yesterdays" (Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern) - 3:50
3. "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie) - 3:47
4. "Funny Man" (Bill Evans) - 3:45
5. "The Shadow of Your Smile (Love Theme from "The Sandpiper")" (Mandel, Paul Francis Webster) - 8:03
6. "Little Lulu" (Buddy Kaye, Sidney Lippman, Fred Wise) - 2:50
7. "Quiet Now" (Denny Zeitlin) - 7:53

Credits

• Bill Evans - overdubbed pianos
• Ray Hall - engineer