Evans's third (and final) major encounter with overdubbed keyboards came a long time after 1963's Conversations With Myself and the 1967 Further Conversations, each produced by Creed Taylor. The latter, allegedly done in a single day, had only one round of overdubbing, whereas both the original exercise and the present album complicate matters creatively by having a possible three keyboards, with deliberate layering of the relative volume levels. New Conversations, produced by manager Helen Keane, apparently took eight sessions to complete, and it's not only more complex but one of the keyboards is electric (despite Bill's reservations in his 1973 interview reprinted in Jazzwise 167). In addition, and perhaps because of the bigger budget and time devoted to it, this set comes across as more composed or at least more orchestrated, with new textures produced by having acoustic and electric phrasing together sometimes. Whether any of these albums are central to Evans' work is a subject for debate, but meanwhile this programme of four originals and four standards is well worth your time. It's interesting that the closing track is one of (I think) only four Duke Ellington tunes covered by Evans, namely ‘Reflections In D’.