Nearly a half century after his death in September 1980, Bill Evans continues to loom large over the jazz piano tradition. It requires a musician with the confidence and strongly defined identity of pianist Randy Ingram to honor Evans while maintaining their own distinctive voice.

While he’s known from the beginning of his career that he would one day repay that indelible influence with a project celebrating this legendary forebear, he was determined to wait until the right moment to offer praise and gratitude from one singular artist to another.

That moment has arrived with Sound Within: A Celebration of Bill Evans, Ingram’s deeply personal tribute to Bill Evans. Out July 10th, 2026 via Chill Tone Records, the heartfelt homage features songs connected with Evans that resonate in meaningful ways, alongside original compositions penned by Ingram in reflection on the pianist’s profound impact on the music.

“The thing that’s most important to me about Bill Evans is not a style,” Ingram says. “It’s not the way that he plays, or the devices that he uses. It’s the sound of the piano, and that’s something that comes from deep inside. So I made sure to hone in on my own sound for this album.”

1. Turn Out the Stars
2. My Foolish Heart
3. Aloft
4. Ezz-Thetic
5. Letter To Evan
6. For All We Know
7. Sound Within
8. Mother of Earl
9. Remembrance

Ingram, who has not only studied Evans’s music, but has embodied the pianist on screen, opens his new recording on the veritably haunting Turn Out the Stars with a rich vein of sentimentality opened for My Foolish Heart and then we get the sparkling Aloft and a quite stunning virtuosity shown within Ezz-Thetic brought forth.

Along next is the sumptuous Letter To Evan and an impassioned For All We Know and they are in turn backed seamlessly by a simply mesmerizing Sound Within, the set rounding out on the gilded, ornately sculpted Mother of Earl, coming to a close on the emotively affecting Remembrance.

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