You Must Believe in Spring

Infobox Album |
Name = You Must Believe in Spring
Type = Album
Artist = Bill Evans


Released = 1981
Recorded = August 23, 1977 – August 25, 1977
Genre = Jazz
Length = 33:48
Label = Warner Bros. Records
Producer = Helen Keane, Tommy LiPuma
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://wc03.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3zfuxqugld0e link]
Last album = "We Will Meet Again"
(1979)
This album = "You Must Believe in Spring"
(1981)
Next album = —

"You Must Believe in Spring" is the title of a song from the 1967 film Les Demoiselles de Rochefort. The song was composed by French composer Michel Legrand.

"You Must Believe in Spring" is also the title of an album by jazz pianist Bill Evans, recorded by Evans, bassist Eddie Gómez, and drummer Eliot Zigmund in August 1977 and released after Evans' death in September 1980. It was Evans's last recording sessions done with Gomez on bass, who left after eleven years with Evans to pursue other musical projects. Evans also recorded the song as a duet with jazz vocalist Tony Bennett on their second album of duets titled "Together Again" (1977).

Track listing for "You Must Believe In Spring" (Evans, Gomez, Zigmund)

#"B Minor Waltz (For Ellaine)" (Bill Evans) - 3:12
#"You Must Believe in Spring" (Alan Bergman/Marilyn Bergman/Jacques Demy/Michel Legrand) - 5:37
#"Gary's Theme" (Gary McFarland) - 4:15
#"We Will Meet Again (For Harry)" (Bill Evans) - 3:59
#"The Peacocks" (Jimmy Rowles) - 6:00
#"Sometime Ago" (Sergio Mihanovich) - 4:52
#"Theme From M*A*S*H (Suicide Is Painless)" (Michael Altman/Johnny Mandel) - 5:53

Bonus tracks

Rhino reissued "You Must Believe in Spring" on CD in 2003 with three new Bonus Tracks added:

#"Without a Song" (Edward Eliscu/Billy Rose/Vincent Youmans) - 8:09
#"Freddie Freeloader" (Miles Davis) - 7:37
#"All of You" (Cole Porter) - 8:09

Credits

*Bill Evans - piano
*Eddie Gómez - bass
*Eliot Zigmund - drums