5 Things to Know About Bill Evans’s Posthumous Album You Must Believe in Spring

It was released after Evans’s death The album came out on February 2, 1981, just months after Evans died in September 1980.

Warner Bros. Records put it out The label released the album, making it one of Evans’s final studio recordings.

The title track is a standard “You Must Believe in Spring” is a jazz standard, originally from the 1967 French film The Young Girls of Rochefort.

It features a trio Evans is joined by bassist Eddie Gomez and drummer Joe LaBarbera, his working trio at the time.

The album has a reflective mood The music feels introspective and bittersweet, fitting for a posthumous release that captures Evans’s late style.