Editing New Jazz Conceptions (section)

==Reception==
{{Album ratings
| rev1 =''[[All About Jazz]]''
| rev1Score =  (no rating)<ref name="AAJ">{{cite web |first=David |last=Rickert |title= ''New Jazz Conceptions'' > Review |url=http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=13721 |work=All About Jazz |access-date=June 28, 2011}}</ref>
| rev2 =[[AllMusic]]
| rev2Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="AM">{{cite web |first=Scott |last=Yanow |title= ''New Jazz Conceptions'' > Review |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id= r138443 |pure_url=yes}} |publisher=[[Allmusic]] |access-date=June 28, 2011}}</ref>
|rev4 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide]]''
| rev4Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name=RSJRG>{{Cite book
 | editor-last = Swenson
 | editor-first = J.  
 | year = 1985
 | title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide
 | url = https://archive.org/details/rollingstonejazz00swen
 | url-access = registration
 | publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone
 | location = USA
 | isbn = 0-394-72643-X
 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/rollingstonejazz00swen/page/73 73]
}}</ref> 
|rev3 = ''[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings]]''
|rev3score  = {{Rating|3|4}}<ref name="Penguin">{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz|The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings]] |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=[[Penguin Books|Penguin]] |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=455}}</ref>
}}
Although a critical success that gained positive reviews in ''[[DownBeat]]'' and ''[[Metronome magazine|Metronome]]'' magazines, ''New Jazz Conceptions'' was initially a financial failure, selling only 800 copies the first year.<ref name="AMB" />

Writing for [[AllMusic]], music critic [[Scott Yanow]] said about the album: "Bill Evans' debut as a leader found the 27-year-old pianist already sounding much different than the usual Bud Powell-influenced keyboardists of the time. ... A strong start to a rather significant career."<ref name="AM" /> Conversely, David Rickert of ''[[All About Jazz]]'' noted the apparent influence of Powell and wrote, "Even at this stage he had the chops to make this a good piano jazz album, but in the end it's not a very good Bill Evans album. ... There are glimpses of the later trademarks of Evans' style."<ref name="AAJ" />

Evans biographer Keith Shadwick comments that the album "conclusively demonstrated Evans to be a highly competent and sophisticated modern jazz pianist with a definite compositional gift, but also showed him to be considerably short of a unified musical personality. It would be no coincidence that he would not make another album as a leader for close on two-and-a-half years."<ref>Shadwick, p. 59.</ref>