Evans himself commented: “With Symbiosis, I only wish to say that this recording is one of those events which happen rather infrequently but in which I’m most proud to have participated.”īut Evans also added: “I am increasingly tempted to direct the listener to the pure aural experience of the music, and decreasingly interested in verbiage about the same.” Reviewers take note. Certainly not among the greatest of his recordings, it has more recently begun to attract more favourable estimates.Įvans biographer Keith Shadwick commends the session with the assertion that he “brings to the work the consummate artistry and sensitivity that occurs when he is stretched and stimulated”. This 1974 collaboration between the Bill Evans Trio, Claus Ogerman and a large concert orchestra received scant attention on its initial release.
