Bill Evans - My Foolish Heart 1961 HQ

Bill Evans - piano Scott LaFaro - bass Paul Motian - drums Recorded in New York , June 25, 1961 High Quality sound. “My Foolish Heart“ is a popular song and jazz standard that was published in 1949. The music was composed by Victor Young, and the lyric was written by Ned Washington. The song was introduced by the singer Martha Mears in the 1949 film of the same name. The song failed to escape critics’ general laceration of the film. Time wrote in its review that “nothing offsets the blight of such tear-splashed excesses as the bloop-bleep-bloop of a sentimental ballad on the sound track“. In mid-1959 Scott LaFaro, who was playing up the street from Evans, said he was interested in developing a trio. LaFaro suggested Paul Motian, who had already appeared in some of Evans’ first solo albums, as the drummer for the new band.[28] The trio with LaFaro and Motian became one of the most celebrated piano trios in jazz. With this group Evans’ focus settled