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Compilation, Remastered. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1997 CD release of "The Best of Bill Evans Live" on Discogs.
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27 de sept. de 2023 · A posthumous release, this was Bill Evans’ last recording with Puerto Rican double bassist Eddie Gómez, ending a productive eleven-year working relationship between the pair. They combine best here on Johnny Mandel’s “Theme from M*A*S*H (Suicide Is Painless)”, with Elliot Zigmund completing the line-up on drums.
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1995 CD release of "The Best Of Bill Evans On Verve" on Discogs.
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22 de sept. de 2020 · In 1968, near the end of a 5-year stretch with Verve Records, Evans caught fire. He overcame a decade-long heroin addiction, which had deepened after LaFaro's death, and added the final spice to a new trio. Eddie Gómez, who, as he once put it, played bass as if it were a horn, had taken over LaFaro's slot two years earlier.
- The Composer
- The Unforgettable Trio
- Bill Evans Solo
- Bill Evans Interpreting Standards
- Later Years
Bill Evans was a diligent student of American popular song, but he also had a deep interest in classical composers, including Chopin and Debussy. He brought his wide-ranging influences to bear on his own compositions. Evans wrote originals steadily throughout his career, and a handful of his tunes eventually became standards. “Very Early” was one o...
Bill Evans found an inexhaustible store of creative possibility in the stripped-down form of the piano/bass/drum trio, and his work in this setting is his best known. In the waning days of 1959, Evans first entered the studio with bassist LaFaro and drummer Motian, and the group quickly became one of the most important in modern jazz. Evans’ idea w...
Though Evans’ greatest pleasures as an improviser came when working with other musicians, he cut a handful of solo albums. “Love Theme From Spartacus” comes from 1963’s Conversations With Myself, one of several LPs he cut using multi-tracking to improvise with himself. The swirl of notes gives the piece a harp-like feel, lending the simple romantic...
As great a composer as Evans was, much of his most fascinating work came from his lifelong study of standards. He was constantly interrogating the melodic and harmonic implications of his favorite tunes, and he heard possibilities in them other musicians didn’t. In early 1959, using extra studio time following a date with Chet Baker, Evans laid dow...
Though Evans continued to work primarily in a trio setting throughout the 70s, there were plenty of non-trio highlights. One such LP was histerrific first album with singer Tony Bennett, and another was Crosscurrents, cut in early 1977 with saxophonists Lee Konitz (alto) and Wayne Marsh (tenor), alongside Evans’ trio members Eddie Gomez (bass) and ...
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William John Evans ( Plainfield, Nueva Jersey, 16 de agosto de 1929 - Nueva York, 15 de septiembre de 1980), más conocido como Bill Evans, fue un pianista y compositor estadounidense de jazz. Su obra abarca el cool, el post- bop y la música modal.
Edgar Gómez (born October 4, 1944) is a Puerto Rican jazz double bassist, known for his work with the Bill Evans Trio from 1966 to 1977.
