I messed up, as I forgot to check my Year of Tony Bennett calendar and so missed honoring Bill Evans on the anniversary of his birth on August 16, 1929.

I want to make it up by featuring one of his piano solos on his second album with Tony Bennett: Tony Bennett and Bill Evans Together Again, released in 1977.

Over the three days when they recorded this album, Evans was working on the theme song from the 1952 film The Bad and the Beautiful. Tony Bennett loved it so much, he asked that it be included on their album. “The Bad and the Beautiful” was written by David Raksin and Dory Langdon.