Empathy (Bill Evans and Shelly Manne album)

Empathy
Studio album by Bill Evans and Shelly Manne
Released November 1962[1]
Recorded August 14, 1962
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre Jazz
Length 34:54
Label Verve
V6-8497
Producer Creed Taylor
Bill Evans chronology
Moon Beams
(1962)		 Empathy
(1962)		 The Gary McFarland Orchestra
(1963)
Shelly Manne chronology
2-3-4
(1962)		 Empathy
(1962)		 My Son the Jazz Drummer!
(1962)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Down Beat[2]
Allmusic[3]

Empathy is a 1962 album by jazz musicians Bill Evans and Shelly Manne. It was Evans's first album for Verve Records, after he was released from his contract with Riverside Records, and the two musicians' first collaboration. The sculpture on the cover was by Sheldon Machlin.

Reception

Leonard Feather had this to say about the album in his April 11, 1963, review in Down Beat magazine: "Essentially the focus is on Evans, as it should be; yet because of the skill with which he and Manne cooperated, one is often conscious that an important interplay is involved, one that lifts the results far out of the normal piano-with-rhythm class."[2]

Reviewing the album for AllMusic, David Nathan wrote: "[Evans'] playing seemed lighter, freer, and more relaxed than it had for a while.... Listening to these three [Evans, Manne, Budwig], it's clear that everyone was having a good time and simply enjoying being relieved of their duties with their regular combos, even if for just one day."[3]

Track listing

  1. "The Washington Twist" (Irving Berlin) – 6:26
  2. "Danny Boy" (Frederick Weatherly) - 3:42
  3. "Let's Go Back to the Waltz" (Irving Berlin) – 4:30
  4. "With a Song in My Heart" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 9:12
  5. "Goodbye" (Gordon Jenkins) - 5:12
  6. "I Believe in You" (Frank Loesser) - 5:52

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ "For November...The Magic Word Is Verve!", Billboard, November 24, 1962.
  2. 1 2 Down Beat, April 11, 1963, vol. 30, no. 9.
  3. 1 2 Nathan, David. "Shelly Manne/Bill Evans: Empathy". AllMusic.com. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
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