William John Evans (født 16. august 1929, død 15. september 1980) var en amerikansk jazzpianist.
Han spilte bl.a med Miles Davis ifra 1958, som den eneste hvite i bandet hans. Bill var nominert 31 ganger til Grammy og fikk syv av dem. I 1994 fikk han Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award post mortem.
Avhengig i en årrekke av heroin og senere kokain drepte han sakte men sikkert, han døde i 1980 i New York av blødende magesår, lungebetennelse og skrumplever.
- Riverside Records
- New Jazz Conceptions (1956)
- Everybody Digs Bill Evans (1958)
- Green Dolphin Street (1959, utgitt på 70-tallet)
- Portrait in Jazz (1959)
- Explorations (1961)
- Sunday at the Village Vanguard (1961)
- Waltz for Debby (1961)
- How My Heart Sings! (1962)
- Moon Beams (1962)
- Interplay (1962)
- The Solo Sessions (two volumes 1963)
- At Shelly's Manne Hole (1963)
- Waltz for Debby (med Monica Zetterlund) (1964)
- United Artists Records
- Verve Records
- Empathy (1962)
- Conversations With Myself (1963)
- Trio '64 (1964)
- Trio Live (1964)
- Trio '65 (1965)
- Bill Evans Trio with Symphony Orchestra (1965)
- Bill Evans at Town Hall (1966)
- Intermodulation (with Jim Hall) (1966)
- A Simple Matter of Conviction (1966)
- Further Conversations with Myself (1967)
- California Here I Come (1967)
- Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival (1968)
- Bill Evans Alone (1968)
- What's New (1969)
- Alone (1969)
- Columbia Records
- The Bill Evans Album (1971)
- Living Time: with George Russell Orchestra (1972)
- MPS Records
- Fantasy Records
- Bill Evans - Intuition (1974)
- The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Albu] (1975)
- Alone Again (1975)
- Quintessence (1976)
- Crosscurrents (1977)
- I Will Say Goodbye (1977)
- Montreux III - Bill Evans & Eddie Gomez (1991)
- Warner Bros. Records
- New Conversations (1978)
- Affinity (1978)
- We Will Meet Again (1979)
- You Must Believe in Spring (1980)
- Milestone Records
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