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Everybody Digs Bill Evans is a trio and solo album by jazz pianist Bill Evans. It was released in early 1959 on the Riverside Records label.

The cover of the album features tribute quotations from some of Evans’s most esteemed contemporaries:

I’ve sure learned a lot from Bill Evans. He plays the piano the way it should be played.—Miles Davis

Bill Evans is one of the most refreshing pianists I have heard in years.—George Shearing

I think Bill Evans is one of the finest.—Ahmad Jamal

Bill Evans has rare originality and taste and the even rarer ability to make his conception of a number seem the definitive way to play it.—Cannonball Adderley

Evans quipped to his producer, Orrin Keepnews, “Why didn’t you get a quote from my mother?”

Track listing:
“Minority” (Gigi Gryce) – 5:23
“Young and Foolish” (Albert Hague, Arnold B. Horwitt) – 5:54
“Lucky to Be Me” (Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden, Adolph Green) – 3:41
“Night and Day” (Cole Porter) – 7:35
“Tenderly” (Walter Gross) – 3:34
“Peace Piece” (Bill Evans) – 6:44
“What Is There to Say?” (Vernon Duke, Yip Harburg) – 4:55
“Oleo” (Sonny Rollins) – 4:09
“Epilogue” (Bill Evans) – 0:41
Bonus track:
“Some Other Time” (Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden, Adolph Green) – 6:09

Personnel:
Bill Evans – piano
Sam Jones – bass (tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, & 8)
Philly Joe Jones – drums (tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, & 8)

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Released: End of March 1959
Recorded: December 15, 1958
Studio: Reeves Sound Studios, New York City
Length: 42:36 original LP
48:45 CD reissue
Label: Riverside
RLP 12-291
Producer: Orrin Keepnews