Empathy (Bill Evans and Shelly Manne album)

1962 studio album by Bill Evans and Shelly Manne

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
| Interplay
(1962)  | Empathy
(1962)  | Loose Blues
(1962)

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Shelly Manne chronology
| 2-3-4
(1962)  | Empathy
(1962)  | My Son the Jazz Drummer!
(1962)

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Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
DownBeat| [2]
AllMusic| [3]

Empathy is a 1962 album by jazz musicians Bill Evans and Shelly Manne. It was recorded and released by Verve Records, the label Evans joined a year after the recording session. The album came about when Manne and Evans were sharing a bill at New York's Village Vanguard nightclub, and Verve producer Creed Taylor proposed a studio collaboration for the two bandleaders. Riverside Records, Evans' label during 1962, allowed Evans to participate, and the trio was completed by Manne's bass player of the time, Monty Budwig. The album features some classic jazz standards and two songs by Irving Berlin from the 1962 musical Mr. President. The sculpture on the album cover was by Sheldon Machlin.

## Reception

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Leonard Feather had this to say about the album in his April 11, 1963, review in DownBeat 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

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1. "The Washington Twist" (Irving Berlin) – 6:26
2. "Danny Boy" (Frederic 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

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* Bill Evans \- piano
* Monty Budwig \- bass
* Shelly Manne \- drums

## References

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

## External links

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* Jazz Discography entries for Bill Evans
* Bill Evans Memorial Library discography

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Bill Evans

Discography

Studio
albums|

* New Jazz Conceptions
* Tenderly: An Informal Session
* Everybody Digs Bill Evans
* On Green Dolphin Street
* The Ivory Hunters
* Portrait in Jazz
* Know What I Mean?
* Explorations
* Nirvana
* Undercurrent
* Moon Beams
* How My Heart Sings!
* Interplay
* Empathy
* Loose Blues
* The Solo Sessions, Vol. 1
* The Solo Sessions, Vol. 2
* The Gary McFarland Orchestra
* Conversations With Myself
* Plays the Theme from The V.I.P.s and Other Great Songs
* Trio 64
* Stan Getz & Bill Evans
* Waltz for Debby
* Trio '65
* Bill Evans Trio with Symphony Orchestra
* Intermodulation
* A Simple Matter of Conviction
* Further Conversations with Myself
* Alone
* What's New
* From Left to Right
* Quiet Now
* The Bill Evans Album
* Living Time
* Eloquence
* Symbiosis
* Intuition
* The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album
* Alone (Again)
* Quintessence
* Together Again
* Crosscurrents
* I Will Say Goodbye
* You Must Believe in Spring
* New Conversations
* Affinity
* We Will Meet Again

Live
albums|

* Sunday at the Village Vanguard
* Waltz for Debby
* Time Remembered
* At Shelly's Manne-Hole
* Bill Evans at Town Hall
* The Bill Evans Trio "Live"
* California Here I Come
* Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival
* Jazzhouse
* You're Gonna Hear from Me
* Montreux II
* The Tokyo Concert
* Half Moon Bay
* Since We Met
* Re: Person I Knew
* But Beautiful
* Blue in Green: The Concert in Canada
* Montreux III
* Getting Sentimental
* Live in Buenos Aires 1979
* Homecoming
* The Paris Concert: Edition One
* The Paris Concert: Edition Two
* Turn Out the Stars: The Final Village Vanguard Recordings
* Letter to Evan
* Turn Out the Stars
* The Last Waltz: The Final Recordings
* Consecration: The Final Recordings Part 2

Compilation
albums|

* Piano Player

Compositions|

* "Waltz for Debby"
* "Funkallero"
* "Blue in Green"
* "Flamenco Sketches"
* "Time Remembered"
* "Peace Piece"

Band
members|

* Monty Budwig
* Larry Bunker
* Jack DeJohnette
* Eddie Gómez
* Chuck Israels
* Marc Johnson
* Philly Joe Jones
* Sam Jones
* Teddy Kotick
* Joe LaBarbera
* Scott LaFaro
* Michael Moore
* Marty Morell
* Paul Motian
* Gary Peacock

Associated
musicians|

* Cannonball Adderley
* Chet Baker
* Tony Bennett
* Bob Brookmeyer
* Kenny Burrell
* Ron Carter
* Miles Davis
* Stan Getz
* Jim Hall
* Freddie Hubbard
* Lee Konitz
* Harold Land
* Shelly Manne
* Warne Marsh
* Claus Ogerman
* George Russell
* Zoot Sims
* Toots Thielemans
* Monica Zetterlund

Related
articles|

* Tribute albums

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Shelly Manne

Studio
albums|

* The Three & The Two (1954)
* The West Coast Sound (1955)
* Swinging Sounds (1956)
* More Swinging Sounds (1956)
* Shelly Manne & His Friends (1956)
* My Fair Lady (1956)
* Li'l Abner (1957)
* Concerto for Clarinet & Combo (1957)
* The Gambit (1958)
* Bells Are Ringing (1958)
* Shelly Manne & His Men Play Peter Gunn (1959)
* Son of Gunn!! (1959)
* The Proper Time (1960)
* Shelly Manne & His Men Play Checkmate (1961)
* Sounds Unheard Of! (1962)
* 2-3-4 (1962)
* Empathy (1962)
* My Son the Jazz Drummer! (1962)
* My Fair Lady with the Un-original Cast (1964)
* Manne–That's Gershwin! (1965)
* Sounds! (1966)
* Jazz Gunn (1967)
* Perk Up (1967)
* Daktari (1967)
* Outside (1969)
* Mannekind (1972)
* Essence (1977)

Live
albums|

* At the Black Hawk 1 (1959)
* At the Black Hawk 2 (1959)
* At the Black Hawk 3 (1959)
* At the Black Hawk 4 (1959)
* At the Black Hawk 5 (1959)
* Ruth Price with Shelly Manne & His Men at the Manne-Hole (1961)
* Live! Shelly Manne & His Men at the Manne-Hole (1961)
* Boss Sounds! (1966)
* Alive in London (1970)
* French Concert (1977)

Soundtracks|

* Young Billy Young (1969)

Discography

Authority control databases |

* MusicBrainz release group

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