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"Peace Piece" from Bill Evan's 1958 album Everyone Digs Bill Evans. About the beautifully pastoral song, "Evans evokes the feeling of being alone in the piece and recalled that a teenage fan said that when he first heard it he "felt like he was standing all alone in New York":
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This week, on October 4th, was the 77th birthday of legendary jazz bassist, two time Grammy Awards winner and member of the Bill Evans Trio, Eddie Gomez. Wishing you the very best on your birthday week.
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As we are still in Bill Evans' birthday month, we want to honor him with another artist quote. Here's one from the late great fellow jazz pianist and composer Chick Corea who said, "In addition to Bill's huge influence as a pianist and trio player, he was an amazingly lyrical composer of songs."
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Happy Birthday to Bill Evans! He was born on this day in 1929. This quote from Tony Bennett about Bill Evans simply sums it up. We are thankful for all the truth and beauty Evans left to the world in his music.
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#everybodystilldigsbillevans
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Enjoy the weekend listening to the THIS IS BILL EVANS playlist on Spotify where you'll find tracks like the newly released "How Deep Is The Ocean (Live at Oil Can Harry's, 1975)" from the Everybody Still Digs Bill Evans compilation, classic tracks like "Blue In Green (feat. John Coltrane)" and much more! open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DZ06evO2wKKgo?sâŚ
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Kevin Whitehead, jazz critic for Fresh Air with Terry Gross on NPR, reviewed the Everybody Still Digs Bill Evans collection in an in-depth 7-minute segment. The headline, "'Everybody Still Digs Bill Evans' Is A Solid Introduction To An Enduring Body Of Work" Tune-in here: found.ee/billevans-freshair-review-npr-j
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âWith Everybody Still Digs Bill Evans...Craft returns to what it does best, creating interesting compilationsâwith a twist . . . The case feels and looks like velour, a favorite material of â60s and â70s designers . . . Audio restoration by Plangent Processes and meticulous mastering bring you to what sounds like the third row of an intimate club, and the results are masterful.â â Audiophile Review
The anticipated, first-ever Bill Evans career retrospective collection is out today, including a full recently unearthed 1975 Bill Evans Trio live concert: found.ee/billevans-still-friday-amazon-pivot
Everybody Still Digs Bill Evans: A Career Retrospective (1956â1980) is a deluxe 5-CD box set (also in digital format) containing 60 tracks that spotlight Evansâ exceptional work as a leader and co-leader with new liner notes from the GRAMMYÂŽ Award-winning writer, radio host, and music journalist, Neil Tesser. The previously unreleased live concert audio, titled On A Friday Evening, is also available as a breakout from the 5-CD box set in 2-LP, CD & Digital formats.
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Eliot Zigmund, legendary American Jazz Drummer known for playing with Bill Evans, Jim Hall, Chet Baker, Stan Getz (and so many others!), is on this week's episode of Gone In 30 Minutes! found.ee/eliot-zigmund-gonein30mins
Zigmund describes auditioning for Bill Evans at the Village Vanguard in front of a live audience, the experience of gigging 5-6 gigs nights per week, and the art of playing with the incomparable Vince Guaraldi! He is joined by Host Tom DeSavia and Co-Host Nick Phillips!
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In 1955, Evans began working with Tony Scott and George Russell. His subtly swinging, lucidly constructed solos with these leaders quickly attracted attention, and provided Evans with an opportunity to begin recording under his own name. By 1958, he spent several months in Miles Davisâ band, where he became a central figure in Davis's shift to modal improvisation. By the end of 1959 he organized his own trio, which featured bassist Scott LaFaro and drummer Paul Motian. The Bill Evans Trio developed a new and more interactive approach to trio playing, one in which all instruments carried melodic responsibilities and functioned as equal voices. While Evans excelled in even more intimate playing situationsâhe made memorable duet music with guitarist Jim Hall, singer Tony Bennett, and bassist Eddie Gomez. His lyrical melodic inventions, intricate phrasing, complex voicings, and beautiful touch remain as unmistakable influences on pianists more than 40 years after his passing.