I Will Say Goodbye is an album by American jazz pianist Bill Evans, recorded in 1977 but not released until January 1980.
[2] The two sides of the original LP both open with takes of the title track by Michel Legrand, the second more than a minute longer than the first.
The 1992 CD reissue by Original Jazz Classics includes two bonus tracks that round out the material from these recording sessions:[5] an older standard, Jerome Kern's "Nobody Else but Me," and another Legrand composition, "Orson's Theme," an insouciant piece that had been composed for the Orson Welles film F for Fake.
[6] The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow called the album "[f]ine post-bop music from an influential piano giant.
He singled out the "elegiac" performance of Zindars's "Quiet Light," which is "played here with delicate blue translucence and perfect control of form," along with the "restrained but exquisite solo piano rendering" of the intro to Burt Bacharach's "A House Is Not a Home" and the "stardust-scattered halt at the end" of the title track.