Bill Evans plays Johnny Mandel

_________________________________________

Selected Johnny Mandel links

biographies:

ASCAP Henry Mancini Award (1997) — bio by Jem Aswad
Songwriters Hall of Fame exhibit (inducted 2010)
NEA Jazz Masters (2011)
More Than ‘M*A*S*H’: Songwriter Johnny Mandel — NPR Morning Edition, 25 March 2010, artist profile by Susan Stamberg
Wikipedia

interviews:

JazzWax interview conducted by Marc Myers (5 parts)
Johnny Mandel on ‘Song Travels’ (NPR) — 17 January 2014 interview by host Michael Feinstein (57:51)

Emily (m. Johnny Mandel, w. Johnny Mercer) — The song was written for and featured in the 1964 film The Americanization of Emily, starring James Garner, Julie Andrews, Melvyn Douglas, and James Coburn

Bill Evans Trio — At Ilkka Kuusisto’s home, Lauttasaari, Helsinki, Finland in 1970 (or 1969)

Bill Evans – piano
Eddie Gomez – bass
Marty Morell – drums

Bill Evans Trio, with Stan Getz — Middelheim Jazz Festival, Antwerp, Belgium, 16 August 1974

Stan Getz (ts) Bill Evans (p) Eddie Gomez (b) Marty Morell (d)

The Shadow of Your Smile (m. Johnny Mandel, Paul Francis Webster)

Johnny Mercer’s interpretation of the “shadow”:

Skylark: The Life and Times of Johnny Mercer (2004) by Philip Furia, pp. 281-282
America’s Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley (2006) by Philip Furia, Michael Lasser, p. 284
Portrait of Johnny: The Life of John Herndon Mercer (2009) by Gene Lees, in chapter twenty-eight (page unknown)

Bill Evans — recorded on 9 August 1967 at Webster Hall in NYC; released on the 1967 LP Further Conversations With Myself; the title refers to the method of overdubbing multiple piano solo recordings for each title, a method Evans had controversially used on the 1963 album Conversations With Myself. Whereas three solos performed at three separate sessions were used for each track of the 1963 album, however, this time only two different solos were combined for each track.

Bill Evans Trio — from the 1996 8-CD box set, The Secret Sessions, compiled of live recordings at the Village Vanguard, 1966-1975 — “The Shadow of Your Smile” is on CD 6, recorded at various sessions in 1968

A Time For Love (m. Johnny Mandel, Paul Francis Webster) — Oscar-nominated song from the 1966 film An American Dream

Bill Evans — recorded on 8 October 1968, and released on the LP Alone, Verve Records V6-8792, released in 1968 (according to Discogs, though Wikipedia notes disagreement on the release date at various sites)