Bill Evans – B minor Waltz, for Ellaine (1977, remastered 2022)
From the Album: You Must Believe in Spring (1977).
You Must Believe in Spring is an album by American jazz pianist Bill Evans, recorded by him with bassist Eddie Gómez and drummer Eliot Zigmund in August 1977 and released in February 1981, shortly after Evans’s death in September 1980.
Unlike most posthumous releases of the pianist’s recordings, this material had been authorized by Evans for release. It has aptly been described as “one of Bill Evans’ most beloved recordings and features possibly the best-sounding audio of any album he ever did.”
Bill Evans dedicated the composition “B minor Waltz” to ex-girlfriend Ellaine, who committed suicide.
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List of Compositions by Bill Evans
| Name | Year of composition | Year of first recording |
| Are You All the Things | 1974 | |
| B Minor Waltz | 1977 | |
| Bill’s Belle | 1965–67 (appr.) | – |
| Bill’s Hit Tune | 1979 | |
| Blue in Green | 1959 | 1959 |
| C Minor Blues Chase | 1965–67 (appr.) | – |
| Carnival | 1965–67 (appr.) | – |
| Catch the Wind | 1965–67 (appr.) | – |
| Children’s Play Song | 1970 | |
| Chromatic Tune | 1965–67 (appr.) | – |
| Comrade Conrad | 1971 | |
| Displacement | 1956 | |
| Epilogue | 1959 | |
| Evanesque | 1980 (unfinished) | |
| Five | 1956 | |
| For Nenette | 1978 | |
| Fudgesickle Built for Two | 1962 | |
| Fun Ride | 1962 | |
| Funkallero | 1956 | |
| Funny Man | 1967 | |
| G Waltz | 1967 | |
| Here Is Something for You | 1980 (unfinished) | |
| Interplay | 1962 | |
| It’s Love – It’s Christmas | 1965–67 (appr.) | – |
| Knit for Mary F | 1980 | |
| Know What I Mean? | 1961 | |
| Laurie | 1979 | 1979 |
| Letter to Evan | 1979 | |
| Loose Bloose | 1962 | |
| Maxine | 1978 | |
| My Bells | 1962 | |
| N.Y.C.’s No Lark | 1963 | 1963 |
| One For Helen | 1966 | |
| Only Child | ||
| Orbit | 1966 | |
| Peace Piece | 1958 | |
| Peri’s Scope | 1959 | |
| Prologue | 1966 | |
| Re: Person I Knew | 1962 | |
| Remembering the Rain | 1978 | |
| Show Type Tune | 1962 | |
| A Simple Matter of Conviction | 1966 | |
| Since We Met | 1974 | |
| 34 Skidoo | 1962 | |
| Song for Helen | 1978 | |
| Song No.1 | ||
| Story Line | 1966 | |
| Sugar Plum | ||
| The Opener | ||
| Theme (What You Gave) | 1965–67 (appr.) | – |
| There Came You | 1962 | |
| These Things Called Changes | 1966 | |
| Tiffany | 1980 | |
| Time Out for Chris | ||
| Time Remembered | 1962 | |
| Turn Out the Stars | 1966 | |
| T.T.T. (Twelve Tone Tune) | 1971 | |
| T.T.T.T. (Twelve Tone Tune Two) | 1973 | |
| The Two Lonely People | 1971 | |
| Very Early | 1949 (appr.) | 1962 |
| Walkin’ Up | 1962 |