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The Bill Evans Trio's 1962 album How My Heart Sings!, the brighter, swinging companion to Moon Beams, with "In Your Own Sweet Way."
Bill Evans, Chuck Israels and Paul Motian at their most buoyant: How My Heart Sings! is the upbeat flip side of the sessions that gave us Moon Beams.
Bill Evans recorded so much music in the spring of 1962 that it filled two albums. Moon Beams got the ballads; How My Heart Sings! got the tunes with a little more pep in their step, all played with what Evans called a desire for "a singing sound."
It was his first trio with bassist Chuck Israels, and they lock in with Paul Motian beautifully. The title track is a lilting waltz by his friend Earl Zindars, Dave Brubeck's "In Your Own Sweet Way" glides, "Summertime" gets a fresh, airy spin, and Evans' own "Walking Up" and "34 Skidoo" show off his writing.
It's lyrical, warm and quietly brilliant, an essential part of the Evans story, and ready for a Sunday morning with a good coffee.
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Side A
1. How My Heart Sings
2. I Should Care
3. In Your Own Sweet Way
4. Walking Up
Side B
1. Summertime
2. 34 Skidoo
3. Ev'rything I Love
4. Show-Type Tune
On Original Jazz Classics (cat# OJC-369), a reissue of the 1962 album.
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