- How My Heart Sings, here with solid Double Plus (A++) sound throughout this Riverside recording pressed on fairly quiet OJC vinyl
- Both of these sides are lively, dynamic and full-bodied, and there’s real weight to the piano, a key quality we look for on all the piano recordings we play
- It’s bigger, richer, more Tubey Magical, with more extension on both ends of the spectrum and more depth, width and height than most other copies we played
- “Recorded in May and June of 1962, at the same time as the Moonbeams sessions, How My Heart Sings shows a different side of the Bill Evans Trio than that all-ballads album. In Evans’ own words, the band’s desire was to ‘provide a more singing sound’ in this material.”
- 4 stars: “[The recording] flies in the face of the conventions Evans himself has set, and yet retains the deep, nearly profound lyricism that was the pianist’s trademark.”
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