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Hace 4 días · Bill Evans, one of the most influential and tragic figures of the post-bop jazz piano, was known for his highly nuanced touch, the clarity of the feeling content of his music and his reform of the chord voicing system pianists used.
Hace 1 día · In his biography of Bill Evans (How My Heart Sings), Peter Pettinger wrote, “It was late August in the Canadian foothills, and a small space heater was set by the piano,” he writes. “The aural evidence suggests [that] the keen air cleared the brain and impelled the imagination.”
Hace 5 días · Bill Evans, a pianist with a groundbreaking approach to harmony and a lyrical approach to improvisation, was born on this day (August 16) in Plainfield, New Jersey, in 1929. He would have turned 90 years old today.
Hace 5 días · Bill Evans is the fine wine of jazz pianists: smooth yet potent, dry yet detailed, subtle yet profoundly nuanced. Classically trained and naturally gifted, Evans was known for introducing new shades of harmony into the jazz chordal palette, and his work with “cool jazz” giants of the mid- to late 1950s — from Chet Baker and ...
Hace 5 días · Bill Evans in 1964. Photo: Jan Persson (CTSIMAGES) What strikes me about this album, even more so than on the 1961 Vanguard sessions, is Evans’s masterful control of dynamics.
Hace 3 días · Bill Evans to be inducted into the American Banjo Museum’s Hall of Fame October 2024. Read More. Congratulations to Bill on recieving the 2022 Steve Martin Banjo Prize! More about the award | 2022 Presentation Awards. Donate using PayPal or your credit card. Enter Donation amount below.
Hace 5 días · “Blue in Green” was first recorded on March 17, 1959 by trumpeter Miles Davis, pianist Bill Evans, drummer Jimmy Cobb, bassist Paul Chambers, and saxophonist John Coltrane. It is the third track, as well as one of two ballads, on Davis’ Kind of Blue, released by Columbia Records on August 17, 1959.
