Paired with Morning Glory, which documents Bill Evans’ 1973 Argentine engagement, Inner Spirit finds the piano legend back in Buenos Aires in 1979, smack in the middle of the “Dirty War.” It’s hard to fathom the normalcy of a jazz concert at such a time, and it surely afforded the trio—Evans’ final lineup, with bassist Marc Johnson and drummer Joe LaBarbera—a rare view of conditions under the right-wing junta. Bits of period pop culture crop up in Evans’ covers of Paul Simon’s “I Do It for Your Love” and Johnny Mandel’s “Theme from M*A*S*H,” prompting one to wonder about other repertoire Evans might have explored had he lived past 51 (he died in 1980). There’s a prevailing yet subtle Miles Davis theme as well, harking back to Evans’ 1958-1959 association with Davis culminating in Kind of Blue. “Stella By Starlight,” “I Loves You, Porgy,” and “Someday My Prince Will Come” are Davis-associated numbers from that period, while “Nardis” is a Davis original that was destined to become an Evans showpiece (and an occasion here for a solo piano intro of nearly eight minutes). “Laurie” and “Letter to Evan” are the two Evans originals, and not common ones. Only a single tune, Jerome Kern’s “Up With the Lark,” appears on both the 1973 and 1979 tapes, the latter as a bright piano-bass duet.