We Will Meet Again

We Will Meet Again is a quintet album by jazz pianist Bill Evans, released by Warner Bros. in 1979. It is Evans' last studio recording and the only one that features his final trio with Marc Johnson on bass and Joe LaBarbera on drums. (The playing of that trio, though, is copiously documented on live recordings.) In this quintet setting, the group is rounded out by Tom Harrell on trumpet and Larry Schneider, who had also appeared on the album Affinity, on tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, and alto flute. Evans plays both acoustic and electric pianos.

On the back cover of the album appear the words "In Loving Dedication to My Late Brother, Harry L. Evans 1927-1979." Harry Evans, who was suffering from schizophrenia, had committed suicide earlier that year. He had been a music educator and an accomplished pianist in his own right. Biographer Peter Pettinger notes that Bill Evans "loved and admired his older brother unconditionally, and he took his suicide very hard."

Keith Shadwick says that at this time, Evans' own physical condition was "visibly deteriorating" but that "[p]aradoxically, he was playing with more inner forcefulness of purpose than at any time since his earliest years on the jazz scene."