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In the '60s the jazz pianist Bill Evans would occasionally record an orchestral "easy listening" session to pay the bills, with predictably mediocre results. But FROM LEFT TO RIGHT, while certainly easy on the ears, is also one of Evans' most intriguing "lost" records. The novelty is that Evans plays both Fender Rhodes and acoustic piano simultaneously in real time, trading off themes and improvs with deliberative taste and, of course, rare skill.

On Green Dolphin Street is an album credited to jazz musician Bill Evans and released in 1977 through the Victor Music Industries Inc. Japanese label as an imprint for Riverside. The songs from this 1959 session first appeared on the 1975 double LP compilation Peace Piece And Other Pieces (Milestone Records, M-47024) which also included the Everybody Digs Bill Evans album. The title is taken from the 1947 MGM movie Green Dolphin Street and the film's title song, by Bronislau Kaper and Ned Washington, which has become a jazz standard.

Tenor saxophonist Getz and pianist Evans recorded the album in May 1964, with Rudy Van Gelder doing the engineering -- but Verve didn’t release it until 1973, subtitled Previously Unreleased Recordings.

180 pure virgin vinyl LPs in Gatefold packaging - The William Claxton Collection. "Sunday at the Village Vanguard" presents music from the Bill Evans Trio’s legendary 1961 Village Vanguard performance. It would mark the last recording by the formation of the group with Scott LaFaro on bass, and Paul Motian on drums, as LaFaro died in a car accident ten days later on July 6, 1961, at the age of 25. Evans, who loved LaFaro’s playing, would wait a long time before forming a new trio. The celebrated Village Vanguard is a jazz club located at 178 7th Avenue South in Greenwich Village, New York City. It was opened by Max Gordon on February 22, 1935. Over 100 jazz LPs have been recorded at the venue.

When this album was recorded in February of 1961, it had been more than year since the Portrait in Jazz was issued, the disc that won the critics over. By the time of this issue, Evans had released four albums in six years, a pace unheard of during that time. Most musicians were issuing two, three, and even four records a year during the same era.

Chet Baker and Bill Evans, two perennial jazz stars who only rarely recorded together. By the time this album was made, Chet was known as much for his singing as for his trumpet playing. This LP, however, is entirely instrumental and consists of nine ballads performed in the styles of hard bop to cool jazz.

Autumn Leaves is a 1980 album by Bill Evans with Eddie Gómez on bass and Marty Morell on drums.It was released by Lotus, Italy. The title track of the album, Autumn Leaves, is one of the most recorded songs in the world.