Partial Discography
2023
To New Life -- Luciano Troja (full-length album dedicated to the music of Earl Zindars)
"How To with John Wilson", television series on HBO (Season 3, Episode 6 features "Soiree", played by Bill Evans)
2022
"Les Cyclades", a film directed by Marc Fitoussi (featuring “Soiree”, played by Bill Evans)
Hits & Rarities (featuring “How My Heart Sings”, “Lullaby for Helene”, “Soiree”, “Elsa”, “My Love is an April Song”, and “Mother of Earl”) -- Bill Evans
2021
Everybody Still Digs Bill Evans (featuring “How My Heart Sings” and “Sareen Jurer”) -- Bill Evans
On a Friday Evening (previously unreleased concert on June 20, 1975 at Oil Can Harry's, Vancouver, BC featuring “Sareen Jurer”) -- Bill Evans
2020
Work From Home With Bill Evans (compilation on Verve Records, featuring "Soiree", "Mother of Earl", "Elsa" and "My Love is an April Song") -- Bill Evans
Spring Jazz (compilation on Universal Records, featuring "My Love is an April Song") -- Bill Evans
2019
"Notre Dame", a film directed by Valérie Donzelli (featuring “Lullaby for Helene”, played by Bill Evans)
Smile With Your Heart: The Best of Bill Evans on Resonance (featuring "Mother of Earl") -- Bill Evans
Evans in England: Live at Ronnie Scott's (featuring "Elsa") -- Bill Evans
2018
Heroic Brass II -- Nelson Mandela University Brass Ensemble, Port Elizabeth, South Africa -- (featuring "Brass Square")
The Classic Trio 1959-1961 (featuring "Elsa") -- Bill Evans Trio
2017
The Quiet Passion of Bill Evans (featuring "Mother of Earl", "Elsa" and "How My Heart Sings") -- Bill Evans
The Definitive Rare Albums Collection 1960-1966 (featuring "Elsa" and "How My Heart Sings") -- Bill Evans
Low Standards (featuring "How My Heart Sings") -- David Finck
2016
The Complete Albums Collection 1960-1962 (featuring "Elsa") -- Cannonball Adderley
2015
Bill Evans Time Remembered -- a 90-minute documentary film, produced by Bruce Spiegel (featuring "Elsa" and "How My Heart Sings")
Evans Remembered (featuring "Elsa") -- Enrico Pieranunzi
2014
12 Classic Albums: 1956-1962 (featuring "Elsa" and "How My Heart Sings") -- Bill Evans
London House Blues (featuring "How My Heart Sings") -- Bob Mamet
Remembering B.E. - A Tribute to Bill Evans (featuring "How My Heart Sings") -- Francesco Branciamore and the Crossover Ensemble
2013
Time Remembered: The Music of Bill Evans (featuring "Elsa") -- Pat Hall
2012
Momentum (featuring "Elsa") -- Bill Evans
Live at Art D'Lugoff's Top of the Gate (featuring "Mother of Earl") -- Bill Evans
2011
The Sesjun Radio Shows (featuring "Sareen Jurer") -- Bill Evans
Geenius Monday -- Gee Hye Lee (featuring “How My Heart Sings”) with Jochen Feucht on clarinet
36 Hearts (featuring "How My Heart Sings") -- Akimitsu Iwase / Akimitsu Iwase Trio
2010
At Home With Zindars -- Luciano Troja (full-length album dedicated to the music of Earl Zindars)
Vocation (featuring "How My Heart Sings" as "Regnets sång" in Swedish, arr. Helena Insulander) -- Vocation vocal sextet
2009
YPF Jazz: Live At Bimhuis Amsterdam: 24 And 25 January 2009 (featuring "How My Heart Sings") -- Young Pianist Foundation
2008
Sides of Blue: The Jazz Greats Who Played on Kind of Blue (featuring "Elsa") -- Cannonball Adderley and Bill Evans
Peace (featuring “How My Heart Sings”) -- Paul Kogut, guitar
Allein (featuring "Sareen Jurer") -- Rudi Wilfer
2007
The Sideman Years (featuring "Mother of Earl") -- Bill Evans
Stockholm 1965 (featuring "Elsa") -- Bill Evans
Live in Paris 1965 (featuring "Elsa") -- Bill Evans
Live in Ottawa 1974 (featuring "Elsa" and "How My Heart Sings") -- Bill Evans
Always (featuring "How My Heart Sings") -- Kálmán Oláh
2006
Riverside Profiles (featuring "How My Heart Sings") -- Bill Evans
Jazz for Dining (compilation on Verve Records, featuring "Soiree") -- Bill Evans
2005
Koln Concert 1976 (featuring "Sareen Jurer" and "How My Heart Sings") -- Bill Evans
A Nice Idea (featuring "How My Heart Sings") -- John Abercrombie
2003
Round Midnight (featuring "How My Heart Sings") -- Bill Evans
How My Heart Sings -- Bill Cunliffe (full-length album dedicated to the music of Earl Zindars)
Getting Sentimental -- (featuring "How My Heart Sings") -- Bill Evans
2002
Tomorrow's Reflections (featuring "Elsa") -- Dale Bruning
The Name of a Woman (featuring "Elsa") -- David Friesen
The Banff Sessions (featuring "How My Heart Sings") -- John Stowell, guitar
From the 70's (featuring "Elsa") -- Bill Evans
2001
And Then Some - Don Haas Trio & Larry Dunlap Trio (full-length album dedicated to the music of Earl Zindars)
Bill Evans's Finest Hour (featuring "Elsa") -- Bill Evans
Beyond (featuring "Positively Orange") -- Susan Sutton Trio
2000
The Third World -- Donald Byrd Percussion (featuring Earl Zindars on tympani in "Ping Pong Beer")
The Last Waltz (featuring "Mother of Earl") -- Bill Evans / Bill Evans Trio
Norwegian Wood (featuring "Elsa") -- European Jazz Trio
Les Incontournables (featuring "Elsa") -- Bill Evans
First Sight (featuring "How My Heart Sings") -- Jarmo Savolainen
Crystals (featuring "Mother of Earl") -- Diederik Wissels
1999
How My Heart Sings (featuring "How My Heart Sings") -- Kate Hammett-Vaughan
Double Duke (featuring "Elsa") -- Joe Temperley
1998
Young at Heart (featuring "How My Heart Sings") -- Tony Williams
Ultimate Bill Evans (featuring "Mother of Earl") -- Bill Evans
Treecircle (featuring "How My Heart Sings") -- Gösta Rundqvist
Jazz Showcase (featuring "Elsa") -- Bill Evans
Half Moon Bay (featuring "How My Heart Sings") -- Bill Evans
Elsa (featuring "Elsa") -- Phil Woods
1997
The Complete Bill Evans on Verve (featuring "My Love is an April Song", "How My Heart Sings", Elsa", "Mother of Earl" and "Soiree") -- Bill Evans
Maynard Ferguson Presents Tom Garling (featuring "How My Heart Sings") -- Tom Garling, trombone
How My Heart Sings (featuring "How My Heart Sings") -- Melissa "Missy" Hasin, cello
Haunted Heart (featuring "How My Heart Sings") -- Eddie Higgins
Guitar Moments (featuring "How My Heart Sings") -- Jimmy Raney
Cite De La Musique (featuring "How My Heart Sings") -- Dino Saluzzi, bandoneon and José Maria Saluzzi, guitar
1996
The Soul of Jazz Percussion [Fresh Sound] -- (featuring Earl Zindars on tympani in "Ping Pong Beer")
The Secret Sessions: Recorded at the Village Vanguard 1966-1975 (featuring "Elsa" and "How My Heart Sings") -- Bill Evans
My Reverie (featuring "How My Heart Sings") -- Ryo Kawasaki, guitar
1995
Blind Date (featuring "How My Heart Sings") -- Larry Schneider, saxaphone
After Hours (featuring "Elsa") -- Hagood Hardy
A Beautiful Tomorrow Song (featuring "Elsa")-- Fumio Karashima
1994
Verve Jazz Masters 5: Bill Evans (featuring "Mother of Earl") -- Bill Evans
The Romantic Tuba (featuring "Trigon" for Tuba) -- Floyd Cooley
Now & Then: A Tribute to Bill Evans (featuring "How My Heart Sings") -- Mitchel Forman
Bill Evans Person We Knew (featuring "Elsa") -- Larry Schneider
1993
Jazz 'Round Midnight: Bill Evans (featuring "Elsa") -- Bill Evans
1992
Time to Remember - Live in Europe 1965-1972 (featuring "How My Heart Sings") -- Bill Evans
1991
This Is Now (featuring "How My Heart Sings") -- Eddie Daniels, clarinet
Reflections in Jazz (featuring "Sareen Jurer") -- Giuseppe Emmanuele
1990
The Return -- Don Haas Trio, also featuring Earl Zindars on piano (full-length album dedicated to the music of Earl Zindars)
1989
In His Own Way (featuring "Sareen Jurer") -- Bill Evans, Eddie Gomez, Eliot Zigmund -- recorded in Rome, Italy
This Is New (featuring "Elsa") -- Ed Bickert
The Complete Fantasy Recordings (featuring "Elsa", "Sareen Jurer" and "Quiet Light") -- Bill Evans
1987
The Complete Riverside Recordings (featuring "Elsa" and "How My Heart Sings") -- Bill Evans
Jazzhouse (featuring "How My Heart Sings") -- Bill Evans
Compact Jazz: Bill Evans (featuring "Elsa") -- Bill Evans
1986
Nardis (featuring "How My Heart Sings") -- Klaus Treuheit
1985
As If... (on Denon Records, featuring “How My Heart Sings”) -- Masahiko Satoh
Together (featuring "How My Heart Sings") -- Larry Coryell and Emily Remler, guitars
1984
Liquid Silver (featuring "How My Heart Sings") -- Andy LaVerne
1982
Good Girl (featuring "How My Heart Sings") -- Kim Parker
1980
I Will Say Goodbye (featuring "Quiet Light") -- Bill Evans / Bill Evans Trio
1979
Stolen Moments (featuring "How My Heart Sings") -- Jimmy Raney and Doug Raney, guitars
1976
Trio (featuring "Elsa" and “How My Heart Sings”) -- Bill Evans
1975
Montreux III (featuring "Elsa") -- Bill Evans
Swedish Concert 1975 (featuring "Sareen Jurer") -- Bill Evans, Eliot Zigmund, Eddie Gomez
1974
Since We Met (featuring "Sareen Jurer") -- Bill Evans / Bill Evans Trio
1972
Live in Paris, 1972 Vol.3 (featuring "Elsa") -- Bill Evans, Eddie Gomez, Marty Morell
1971
Trio Live (featuring "How My Heart Sings") -- Bill Evans / Bill Evans Trio
1970
Montreux II (featuring "How My Heart Sings") -- Bill Evans
From Left to Right (featuring "Soiree" and "Lullaby for Helene") -- Bill Evans
1968
At the Montreux Jazz Festival (featuring "Mother of Earl") -- Bill Evans
1967
Monica Zetterlund -- (on Universal Records, featuring "How My Heart Sings" as "Regnets sång" in Swedish) -- Monica Zetterlund
1965
Trio '65 (featuring "Elsa" and “How My Heart Sings”) -- Bill Evans
1962
How My Heart Sings! (featuring “How My Heart Sings”) -- Bill Evans / Bill Evans Trio
1961
Know What I Mean? (featuring "Elsa") -- Cannonball Adderley / Bill Evans
Explorations (featuring "Elsa") -- Bill Evans / Bill Evans Trio
The First Percussion Sextet (featuring "Fickle Weather") with C. Warren Hard, Director Bob Swan, Earl Zindars, Bruce Spencer, Chuck Speas, Ralph Roberts, Doug Alien
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHQnuzHwiSE&list=PLHApnljEYcKqTFA4bgtvxXg4HzGzJZLdr&index=7
1960
On the legendary album "The Soul of Jazz Percussion" (Warwick W 5003 ST, NYC, 1960), Earl Zindars plays timpani and percussion with Philly Joe Jones (drums), Booker Little, Donald Byrd, Marcus Belgrave, and Don Ellis (trumpet), Curtis Fuller (trombone), Pepper Adams (baritone), Bill Evans and Mal Waldron (piano), and Paul Chambers (bass).
Earl can also be heard playing drums on the album "This Time The Swing's On Me" with Leon Merian (trumpet), Derek Smith (piano), Clyde Lombardi (bass), and Perry Lopez (guitar). (CELP-447, Seeco Records, 1960)
1954
Concert in Brass -- (featuring the Third Movement of "Brass Square") -- Chicago Symphony Brass Ensemble (Adolph Herseth, trumpet Reynold Schilke, trumpet Hugh Cowden, French Horn Frank Crisafulli, Trombone Arnold Jacobs, Tuba)