DESCRIPTION:
Interplay is a 1963 album by jazz musician Bill Evans. It was recorded in July and August 1962 in NYC for Riverside Records. The Interplay Sessions is a 1982 album that includes this album as well as some sessions recorded on August 21-22 of the same year for Milestone Records (also with Philly Joe Jones and Jim Hall, but with Zoot Sims on tenor saxophone and Ron Carter replacing Percy Heath on bass).

Personnel: Bill Evans (p) Freddie Hubard (tr) Jim Hall (gr) Percy Heath (b) Philly Joe Jones (dr)
Released: June 1963
Recorded: July 16–17 and August 21, 1962 New York City
Label: Riverside RLP-445
Producer: Orrin Keepnews

"You and the Night and the Music" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz)
"When You Wish upon a Star" (Leigh Harline, Ned Washington)
"I'll Never Smile Again" [take 7; original take] (Ruth Lowe)
"I'll Never Smile Again" [take 6]
"Interplay" (Bill Evans)
"You Go to My Head" (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie)
"Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away)" (Harry Barris, Ted Koehler, Billy Moll)

The Interplay Sessions peaked at #26 on the Billboard Jazz Albums charts in 1983.[3] The CD reissue Interplay adds another take of "I'll Never Smile Again" as a bonus track. At the Grammy Awards of 1984, Orrin Keepnews won the Grammy Award for Best Album Notes for the reissue.