Someday My Prince Will Come – 1979

Bill Evans

Click here if you have a memory of this artist that you’d like to share

–

Click here to Support Jazz on the Tube

There are at least 28 Bill Evans recordings of “Someday My Prince Will Come,” a song that the pianist first recorded in 1959 and kept in his repertoire until his death in 1980.

Obviously Evans loved the tune and he never seemed to run out of fresh ideas to play on the song which debuted in the 1937 Walt Disney film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Few know that the earliest jazz recording of the song was by pianist John Williams (not the film director) in 1955, soon followed by singer Ruth Price.

When Dave Brubeck recorded it in 1957, it caught on as a jazz standard.

This Bill Evans version from 1979 is one of his most uptempo renditions and features him with his last trio which also included bassist Marc Johnson and drummer Joe LaBarbera.

-Scott Yanow

Click here if you have a memory of this artist that you’d like to share

–

Click here to Support Jazz on the Tube