I remember being broke as hell in college and wondering how I was gonna eat, pay rent, etc... I just spent all day one day listening to Bill Evans, and thought man life is fucking beautiful and when nothing is going your way at least we have music. Thanks Bill for helping me find solace, your music has had a huge impact on us.
this year, i started listening to a LOT of 1950s music....cuz that was a REAL vacation from our modern hell. (I love my classic rock and prog bands, but they're too modern and remind me of this terrible society we live in today.) Plus all that 1950s music was about SIMPLE things like kissing a girl. And recently I realized PSYCHEDELIC music is also a Great Escape, cuz it's like I'm on drugs but I didn't have to buy any drugs!
@@jonbongjovi1869 Now that, is a great perspective. I have pretty bad tinnitus, and alot of modern music(which I do love) I have trouble listening with the tinnitus present.. But somehow this older music kind of sits with it. And I can focus on the "pure tone" of this music and feel a sense of peace.
It's Feb.2024. I'm sitting in my car at the library where I came to use the wi-fi on a Sunday morning. The weather is warm, so I have the windows down. When I finished what I came to do, I pulled up this video. A few seconds later a hawk landed on a wire 15 feet in the air above me and has been listening to Bill. He knows what's good.
This was the trio that played Ronnie Scotts' club in the late sixties, Eddie Gomez and Paul Motian, and Bill took this band to Europe afterwards. My good fortune was to be conducted to the seat/ table to the right and rear of Bills keyboard, about six feet away from him, by Ronnie, who saved the best seats for visiting musicians who he knew would sit quietly listening, instead of talking and distracting. My friend Peter Taylor Wood and myself were working musicians in Dean Street, around the corner, and after our gig, we went into Ronnie's regularly. We sat through three sets listening to these great players, not knowing that history was being made there. Happy Days, and Bill was at his peak in my opinion.
thank you for sharing anthony! its unbelievable how the internet connects people. i was born in 99, and here i am, reading about your beautiful experience in the 60s. it is extremely surreal and really gives me a perspective on time! god i wish i was there to witness these!
That's a great story, and I have a similar one. One night at the Village Vanguard in NYC, they had a full house, and I was brought to a chair, facing the audience and right next to the piano! Bill didn't seem to mind at all, and although I was afraid to move a muscle, I got to see every gesture, hear every utterance and even exchange a few words with him between tunes, in addition to having my eyes & ears right next to the piano. What an experience!
Jazz is not music, it is a sound philosophy. And maestro Bill Evans is one of the most significant philosophers of this beautiful and delightful sound magic called JAZZ.
How fortunate you were to have seen him.Were did you see him in concert and who was in his band at the time just curious and what year was it that you saw him..????
Sweden '64 My Foolish Heart 0:00 Israel 4:40 France '65 Detour Ahead 9:09 My Melancholy Baby 14:16 Denmark '70 Emily 23:20 Alfie 27:50 Someday My Prince Will Come 33:05 Sweden '70 If You Could See Me Now 38:33 'Round Midnight 42:30 Someday My Prince Will Come 48:36 Sleepin' Bee 54:21 You're Gonna Hear From Me 58:59 Re: Person I Knew 1:01:56 Denmark '75 Sareen Jurer 1:07:38 Blue Serge 1:13:50 Up With The Lark 1:18:29 But Beautiful 1:25:06 Twelve Tone Tune Two 1:30:19
Thanks for going to the trouble to do this list for those who are new to Evans' repertoire, but the serge in Blue Serge is spelled with an 'e' not a 'u'. Happy New Year
Man,he makes a 10 hour drive seem short,never had a artist have such a major effect in my life.When I started driving 18 wheelers,my instructor was playing this.Didn’t understand then,but I do now.May his music continue to live on
Why Jazz never seems to age like popular music, I'm sure this is like the 1950s or 60s, but still till this day the sounds are so fresh, even my kids to my grandkids will listen to Bill and many more legendary Jazz musicians.
90s-00s used jazz in hip-hop heavily. Now it's been back for a while in the form of Lofi/study type music - mellow hip-hop without rap. It lives on in newer forms.
I just read, in Buenos Aires, Owen Martell’s Intermission. What a sadness the life of Bill Evans, his depressions, the death of Scot LaFaro and how it affected him, his overdose and finally his death. What an artist so unjustly lost in a world of pain and drugs.
It's 2023 and I'm listening hard 😆 lol. Love the 1950's east coast hard bop & west coast cool. I'm a little biased cuz I'm from California. West Coast cool !!! Bill Evans. Chet Baker art pepper dave brubeck & Charles mingus. Cool cat's all
Part of Evan’s appeal to me is, he took the time to state the melody so clearly in these great ballads before going off on his explorations. A lot of other great jazz interpreters , are cryptic, or dismissive of the tune from the outset of the piece. This respect of the theme melody made for a great foundation for the number
J'ai posté il y a quelques mois... qui écoute encore Bill Evans aujourd'hui en 2022... Et bien à ma grande surprise... Nous sommes toujours des milliers ! L'humanité n'est pas si laide que cela...
J'aime le jazz... j'ai découvert Bill Evans il n'y a pas longtemps... précurseur de Keith Jarrett et Brad Mehldau.....vivez la musique qui remplit notre âme
In this video (in order of appearance) B&W video first trio: Bill Evans, Chuck Israels (bass), Larry Bunker (drums) second trio: Bill Evans, Niels Henning Orsted Pedersen (bass), Alan Dawson (drums), + Lee Konitz (alto sax) third trio: Bill Evans, Eddie Gomez (bass), Marty Morell (drums) Color video fourth trio and fifth trio: same as third- Evans, Gomez, and Morell This youtube video has 5 different appearances by 3 different iterations of Bill Evans' trio. Neither Paul Motian nor Scott LaFaro appear in this video.
First Trio (Sweden '64) is the opening clip Second Trio (France '65) 9:09 Third Trio (Denmark '70) 23:20 Fourth Trio (Sweden '70) 38:33 Fifth Trio (Denmark '75) 1:07:38 Thought I may round out the top comments with this quick note. Thank you for preserving their names, a special gesture for our humble music history's most unique genre. You all make me feel like this ---> 1:12:07
Bill had a way of showing immense love for the beautiful pure intervals, the octave and the fifth, and used more dissonant intervals as a way to introduce contrast and highlight those beautiful resonances all the more when it was their time to be heard again. It takes darkness to really appreciate the sunlight. While many jazz players focused on the dissonances, Bill was all about those beautiful resonant intervals and chords.
I have the book "The Harmony of Bill Evans" which illustrates his demand for the third and the seventh also. Without the third, I can't hear you've really defined a chord (unless it's a sus). Great book which I'm still studying after many years.
Can you please explain in simple English what you wrote? Thanks! (BTW, I studied music for 5 years, but that is irrelevant to a common man's understanding of what you wrote)!
@@uwanttono4012 I think what Turboy65 is saying is that certain chords and intervals (fourths, fifths and octaves) have a wide open airy sound as compared to other chords that contain close intervals like half-steps or whole steps, which can have a "dissonant" sound or a "closed" or "dark" feeling. Those kinds of chords would include sharp ninth chords or a 13th chords, which are typically identified as "jazzy" sounding. Of course, there are many other such chords. And of course, Evans' playing was much more than chord selection, but that was part of it.
I'm a piano player- have been for 23 years. But Bill Evans- he's a piano demigod. I wouldn't even call what he did piano playing. I call it "Harmonic Transcendence". His chords are not chords. They're mathematical beauty.
The answer is simple, forget the theory and concentrate on playing with your heart and soul, no teacher or class will teach you to play with soul, life itself teaches you that.
@@truesearch69 You do need to know the theory by heart to do that, sadly. If your subconscious can process the theory for you, only then can the conscious self play their heart out. And that takes decades of dedication and mastery.
His finger technique and control of tone, as well as thinking in long structures / melodic lines make him come very close to a classical concert pianist. Of course his taste and harmonic genius on top of that make him the unique Jazz musician he was. The guy is fascinating!
And my point is that saying he "comes very close to a classical concert pianist" misses that that's actually what he went to school for and is trained in, making the comparison pointless.
I was born in 1961 - when Bill cut the Live at the Village Vanguard performances with his original trio. Now that I'm 60, I appreciate his music more than ever. I was a latecomer to jazz, introduced to it in college in 1981. I missed 20 years of this, as it was happening! Since college I've traveled the world and find a jazz club in every city - Ronnie Scott's in London, Nardis in Istanbul, now defunct places in New York, LA and SF were some of my favorites. Watching this lifts my spirits, but fills me with such a sense of loss.
I hear you about the defunct bit. Bradley's in NY was probably the greatest piano room. Also Seventh Ave. South, Sweet Basil. Knickerbocker is still there. Unfortunately, the audience has dwindled.
@@milescockfield No, it really is professor Chuck Israels on the first video, second one comes in a very young Niels Pedersen NHOP on bass, third video on it's Eddie Gomez
@@prako2710 You didn't have to say it. I remind you that drugs were part of the musician life in that time, even now. Bill Evans was no the exception. He left a unique piano style and he is part of the jazz heroes forever. 🎹🎼
@@prako2710 it unreal that's all you can respond. Judge what you must. This is not merely some heroin high. This is unbelievable skill, intuition, deep attunement and years of learning, experiment. All in all: talent at its best. That he could and did function while also using addictive substances is the sword of damocles in a way. His personal life left a lot to cope with over the course of living, loving, gifting the music world with incredible sound and feeling, travel, making a living, recording. More than many.
For 50 years I've visited Bill Evans's music, gotten saturated in a good way before heading in another direction for a few months, and then I come back and hear things I didn't hear or appreciate, marvel at his art, and repeat the process, and it never, ever gets old.
Gosh what a mood... I was only thirteen At my Aunt and Uncles cocktail Parties...and this was playing On the turntable....in the corner Watching people...... Glamorous.
First time I heard Bill it was in 1967 in the house of my girlfriend. In that day I suddenly heard sounds from Trio 64 album . What a magic sounds coming from de LP Since then, listening Bill Evans music is a part of my life.
This is Bill Evans at his greatest. At once precise and lush, painterly and mathematical, emotional and intellectual, a truly amazing performance, with high quality video and sound, a treasure
Those of us who love this ...Salute Him who gave us these Great Human Beings with their AWESOME Gifts of Music ... Love this ...Love Oscar Peterson , Diana Krall ..OMG so wonderful a list...without end !
In the early 70’s I was a music major at MPC in Monterey. Bill Evans did a couple clinics for us, with his trio. Wow it was incredible to see him so close and be able to ask musical questions.
Such beautiful music... thank You God for the gifts you give Your children. Bill Evans was so lyrical and beautiful. Same for the whole Trio... Bill chose beauty in the music and the musicians
hm, Debussy is more or less boring and Bill Evans is really exciting. If to compare than with Eric Satie from whom Debussy stole his best ideas and melodies. But why to compare, Bill Evans was outstanding, a very rare genius, a master pianist and his harmonic visions were revolutionary. .
There are no words apt to describe what one can feel, listening to Bill's music. In particular about the live situations. There are no words because "words are the children of reason" (Bill Evans)
Bill is quite an artisan and craftsman, who hones each note and key with the precise harmony and quality to soothe that weary spirit back to life. My deepest respect for such a dedicated artist as no other.
What an incredible pianist. So creative and inventive. We’re talking about 1965. He was like the J S BAUCH OR MOZART OR CHOPIN OF MODERN DAY JAZZ PIANO PLAYING
Bill Evans, a man whose piano effulges with genuine strokes of emotions. Aways watch his left hand. One of our greatest jazz pianists. The effect on me is his touch watching his hands play. With deepest respect and admiration, I honor all who were fortunate enough to have played with him. ❤️
Remember children...this is the eventual posture of all great pianists...and so many other wonderful professions...please folks..understand the physical demands of your career choice..no pain..no gain...
First up, is Bill with Chuck Israels and Larry Bunker. This is the trio that booked into the Rubiot in Tulsa OK for two one week engagements in '63 or '64. As I was the drummer in the house band, I got to sit next to the stage every night, an unforgettable experience. In my opinion, this was Bill's best, most compatible trio.
Bill Evans was a master of his craft. Every time he touched a piano, it just sang beautifully; effortless. I am now studying Jazz piano and Bill Evans is my guide.
This is Bill at the top of his game, not saying anything new here that the band's sensitive and intuitive interplay, Bill's innovative harmonic and compositional genius and his ability to "live inside the music" is magical and extraordinary. One of the best things I have ever seen or heard.
In the past, I have not been much of a fan of piano music because I didn't give it adequate attention. I remember when bill Evans played with Miles, I pretty much ignored him. Years later I firdt heard Waltz for Debby, i suddenly was so impressed by the piece tha I seriously wanted to know who this guy was. I wasn't disappointed. I found a musician who fused his heart and soul into everything he did, and it always came out beautiful. Nowadays I pay more careful attention to pianists. I don't want to miss another Bill Evans.
Thank God that someone had the foresight to record this wonderful pianist and his two back up masters so the young generation in time will be able to learn what real musical talent is
...I wonder how hot on "jazz" your antecedents were when it started out with 'uncouth black folks', @@cycloneranger5354? See what I did there? Oh, never mind.🙄
@@cycloneranger5354 I mean hip hop instrumentally pulls largely from jazz, you rejecting new genres of music is the same as the youth rejecting old genres of music. I’m 16 and I listen to Jazz, Classical Music, Classic Rock, 90/80’s Hip Hop and more. And I’m not alone tons of my friends listen to similar music, not every teenager listens to rap.
@@illitrait Something to be said for the level of musical talent and skill back then. Now we have young rappers yelling nothing but profanity and slurs. Something to be said for the musician here.
@@DSAK55 Did you know that "millenial" refers to someone who was born in the 80's or 90's? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials#Date_and_age_range_definitions Those people grew up with plenty of exposure to jazz, from Mister Roger's Neighborbood to East Coast Rap.
@@TheSilence1 Yeah, we're not the youngest generation anymore. People can start dumping on the new generation now : ) It's true, the Boomers grew up with some of the best records and artists ever, but they also voted for Benedict Donald : )
Mi pianista de jazz favorito. Habíamos comprado los tickets para verlo en vivo en un concierto en el Montmatre Hus de Copenhagen (1980). Hicimos una larga cola. Esperamos impacientemente su presentación a las 10 pm. A las 10.45 pm aparece el dueño del local, Danmarks Kaj, y da excusas por la cancelación del evento. "Mr. Evans está arriba en el hotel y pide disculpas por no poder aparecer esta noche, no se siente bien". Bill Evans murió a la semana siguiente. Pero, para mí sigue siempre vivo en mi corazón, cada vez que lo escucho. Una catarata armónica que sale desde su alma hacia sus dedos y vuelve a sus oídos y a los nuestros.
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I remember being broke as hell in college and wondering how I was gonna eat, pay rent, etc... I just spent all day one day listening to Bill Evans, and thought man life is fucking beautiful and when nothing is going your way at least we have music. Thanks Bill for helping me find solace, your music has had a huge impact on us.
sweet
music is also one of my only comforts in life
this year, i started listening to a LOT of 1950s music....cuz that was a REAL vacation from our modern hell. (I love my classic rock and prog bands, but they're too modern and remind me of this terrible society we live in today.)
Plus all that 1950s music was about SIMPLE things like kissing a girl.
And recently I realized PSYCHEDELIC music is also a Great Escape, cuz it's like I'm on drugs but I didn't have to buy any drugs!
Never heard or heard of him before. I have missed a GREAT talent!
Make that FOUR great talents!
@@jonbongjovi1869 Now that, is a great perspective. I have pretty bad tinnitus, and alot of modern music(which I do love) I have trouble listening with the tinnitus present.. But somehow this older music kind of sits with it. And I can focus on the "pure tone" of this music and feel a sense of peace.
It's Feb.2024. I'm sitting in my car at the library where I came to use the wi-fi on a Sunday morning. The weather is warm, so I have the windows down. When I finished what I came to do, I pulled up this video. A few seconds later a hawk landed on a wire 15 feet in the air above me and has been listening to Bill. He knows what's good.
What an amazing fucking fabulous comment! Where do you live!!??
South Carolina, where the birds are discerning.
as a teen, when i played 'classical jazz', the sparrows would light near my window and sing. they didn't do this for r&b, funk, rock, only jazz.
Just when you think it's not possible to like birds more...
Yeah man.
Still listening in 2023....this music is meant to sound forever 😉
Yeah. Just listen to 'All of You' from the Vanguard Sessions. That take on the tune will be forever modern.
Bill Evans is a king of piano! Who listens in 2021?
I just listened to it! Perfect!
@@maryvarlamova Yes! He played on piano like Master.
I've been visiting this video since 2017!
He's my father. In my heart of course.
Who cares what year we’re listening to it? Are you gathering data?
This was the trio that played Ronnie Scotts' club in the late sixties, Eddie Gomez and Paul Motian, and Bill took this band to Europe afterwards. My good fortune was to be conducted to the seat/ table to the right and rear of Bills keyboard, about six feet away from him, by Ronnie, who saved the best seats for visiting musicians who he knew would sit quietly listening, instead of talking and distracting. My friend Peter Taylor Wood and myself were working musicians in Dean Street, around the corner, and after our gig, we went into Ronnie's regularly. We sat through three sets listening to these great players, not knowing that history was being made there. Happy Days, and Bill was at his peak in my opinion.
lucky
thank you for sharing anthony! its unbelievable how the internet connects people. i was born in 99, and here i am, reading about your beautiful experience in the 60s. it is extremely surreal and really gives me a perspective on time! god i wish i was there to witness these!
anthony williams do you have any music to share?
That's a great story, and I have a similar one. One night at the Village Vanguard in NYC, they had a full house, and I was brought to a chair, facing the audience and right next to the piano! Bill didn't seem to mind at all, and although I was afraid to move a muscle, I got to see every gesture, hear every utterance and even exchange a few words with him between tunes, in addition to having my eyes & ears right next to the piano. What an experience!
Lucky you...
Jazz is not music, it is a sound philosophy. And maestro Bill Evans is one of the most significant philosophers of this beautiful and delightful sound magic called JAZZ.
I saw him once. He filled the club with his rich piano playing. He filled my ears with his incredible playing. I’ll never forget it
What an opportunity! I did not have a chance to see him but I am living my life through his music.
i heard him live once at a Vangueard matinee 3 sets 1965,
with (Israels and Bunker. It STILL fills my life , that experience.@@johnbani8532
How fortunate you were to have seen him.Were did you see him in concert and who was in his band at the time just curious and what year was it that you saw him..????
A master. A legend. Timeless. Who's still here in 2022?!
Никто не слушает. Не надоело этот тупой вопрос копировать?
Late as usual
Jon batiste
Always these washed-out comments like "Who's still here in 2022?" Obviously, from people who desperately want to be liked.
@@wolfgangmarkusgstrein8522 clearly a weakness you don't have eh?😂
Sweden '64
My Foolish Heart 0:00
Israel 4:40
France '65
Detour Ahead 9:09
My Melancholy Baby 14:16
Denmark '70
Emily 23:20
Alfie 27:50
Someday My Prince Will Come 33:05
Sweden '70
If You Could See Me Now 38:33
'Round Midnight 42:30
Someday My Prince Will Come 48:36
Sleepin' Bee 54:21
You're Gonna Hear From Me 58:59
Re: Person I Knew 1:01:56
Denmark '75
Sareen Jurer 1:07:38
Blue Serge 1:13:50
Up With The Lark 1:18:29
But Beautiful 1:25:06
Twelve Tone Tune Two 1:30:19
Francis Moore
Francis Moore
Thanks for going to the trouble to do this list for those who are new to Evans' repertoire, but the serge in Blue Serge is spelled with an 'e' not a 'u'. Happy New Year
Nice work here. ¡Gracias!
Outstandingly wonderful!
Man,he makes a 10 hour drive seem short,never had a artist have such a major effect in my life.When I started driving 18 wheelers,my instructor was playing this.Didn’t understand then,but I do now.May his music continue to live on
Music, the greatest good that humans know - Joseph Addison
Listening to Bill driving 18 .. your the coolest. Peace man
That's so cool someone out there I share the highway with is playing Bill Evans in that big rig. I'd be doing that too if I was a professional driver.
It will, and think of the amazement on future kid's ears when THEY hear him for the first time.
Wonder who makes similar music today so I can see in person .
Why Jazz never seems to age like popular music, I'm sure this is like the 1950s or 60s, but still till this day the sounds are so fresh, even my kids to my grandkids will listen to Bill and many more legendary Jazz musicians.
Indeed! Beautifully said!!! His music is soul.. Connects/relates to you in any phase of life.
90s-00s used jazz in hip-hop heavily. Now it's been back for a while in the form of Lofi/study type music - mellow hip-hop without rap. It lives on in newer forms.
Jazz music evolves everytime. One have to evolve with it.
Amen, I will be one of them
Bill Evans is a king of piano! Who listens in 2021?. It doesn't get any better than this..
This makes me feel okay with everything I’m not okay with
I understand you
Exactly
Yeah.
The greatest
Most of the time, listening to Bill, I do tear up. He plays the piano like no other.
Me too.
I just read, in Buenos Aires, Owen Martell’s Intermission. What a sadness the life of Bill Evans, his depressions, the death of Scot LaFaro and how it affected him, his overdose and finally his death. What an artist so unjustly lost in a world of pain and drugs.
It's 2023 and I'm listening hard 😆 lol. Love the 1950's east coast hard bop & west coast cool. I'm a little biased cuz I'm from California. West Coast cool !!! Bill Evans. Chet Baker art pepper dave brubeck & Charles mingus. Cool cat's all
I think Bill played on a Chet album.
🙏❤️🌏🕊🌿🎵🎶
Around 1950 I tryed to play like Bill E. Specialy on Peace Piece , I always failed. He is more than my master! RobC
There has never been anyone like Bill Evans and there never will be again. There are no words...
My 89 year old housemate turned me onto Bill Evans…how blessed am I?? (I’m 60…jazz fan for most of my life, just NOW discovering him!)😉
that's not possible a jazz fan not knowing bill evans, fake
anything is possible my friend@@Ciiiroo
Same here. I'm making up for all those years without knowing him. I'm listening to him non-stop and he makes me choke every time.
Now, if he said Jelly Roll Morton; believe all would be fine.
I’m 15 years old. I never loved jazz more than I did 15 years ago; because I weren’t alive.
Part of Evan’s appeal to me is, he took the time to state the melody so clearly in these great ballads before going off on his explorations. A lot of other great jazz interpreters , are cryptic, or dismissive of the tune from the outset of the piece.
This respect of the theme melody made for a great foundation for the number
88 Wood Bikes I agree. Well said.
Agreed!
Yes...he was at heart a melodist who understood and expressed the composer's feelings first.
Wonderful insight brother. Thanks.
Nicely put.
Bill Evansさんの曲は心を和ませる不思議なエネルギーに満たされています。嫌な事があって憤りを感じていても副交感神経を優位にしてくれます。
Es lindo prestar atención a los detalles , verdad?
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I recently noticed, whilst in my 40's, certain piano melodies can change my mood from anger to tears of chill.
¡Grande el Genio de Bill Evans! ¡Muchas gracias por rescatarlo en esta época tan decadente. 7-7-2023
J'ai posté il y a quelques mois... qui écoute encore Bill Evans aujourd'hui en 2022...
Et bien à ma grande surprise... Nous sommes toujours des milliers !
L'humanité n'est pas si laide que cela...
J'aime le jazz... j'ai découvert Bill Evans il n'y a pas longtemps... précurseur de Keith Jarrett et Brad Mehldau.....vivez la musique qui remplit notre âme
Before we had head bangers, we had head hangers. Beautiful memories from the Golden Era of Jazz.
Bellísimo!!!! es toda una exquisitez al oído, quien más se deleita en en 2024 con esta maravillosa música, a la que parece no parle los años✨😌
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Premier mai 2024 , merci Bill de me faire me sentir libre ❤
...When cinematographers matched with the masters musicians perfectly
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In this video (in order of appearance)
B&W video
first trio: Bill Evans, Chuck Israels (bass), Larry Bunker (drums)
second trio: Bill Evans, Niels Henning Orsted Pedersen (bass), Alan Dawson (drums), + Lee Konitz (alto sax)
third trio: Bill Evans, Eddie Gomez (bass), Marty Morell (drums)
Color video
fourth trio and fifth trio: same as third- Evans, Gomez, and Morell
This youtube video has 5 different appearances by 3 different iterations of Bill Evans' trio. Neither Paul Motian nor Scott LaFaro appear in this video.
First Trio (Sweden '64) is the opening clip
Second Trio (France '65) 9:09
Third Trio (Denmark '70) 23:20
Fourth Trio (Sweden '70) 38:33
Fifth Trio (Denmark '75) 1:07:38
Thought I may round out the top comments with this quick note. Thank you for preserving their names, a special gesture for our humble music history's most unique genre. You all make me feel like this ---> 1:12:07
Thanks a lot
Thank you!
If I could immerse myself as deeply as Bill Evans did into his music, I'd say "goodbye" today and you'd never see me again.
Bill had a way of showing immense love for the beautiful pure intervals, the octave and the fifth, and used more dissonant intervals as a way to introduce contrast and highlight those beautiful resonances all the more when it was their time to be heard again. It takes darkness to really appreciate the sunlight. While many jazz players focused on the dissonances, Bill was all about those beautiful resonant intervals and chords.
Kind of the anti Monk 😂
I have the book "The Harmony of Bill Evans" which illustrates his demand for the third and the seventh also. Without the third, I can't hear you've really defined a chord (unless it's a sus). Great book which I'm still studying after many years.
@@skyr4tMusic Thank God it's a big wide world that allows for the beauty of both.
Can you please explain in simple English what you wrote? Thanks! (BTW, I studied music for 5 years, but that is irrelevant to a common man's understanding of what you wrote)!
@@uwanttono4012 I think what Turboy65 is saying is that certain chords and intervals (fourths, fifths and octaves) have a wide open airy sound as compared to other chords that contain close intervals like half-steps or whole steps, which can have a "dissonant" sound or a "closed" or "dark" feeling. Those kinds of chords would include sharp ninth chords or a 13th chords, which are typically identified as "jazzy" sounding. Of course, there are many other such chords. And of course, Evans' playing was much more than chord selection, but that was part of it.
I'm a piano player- have been for 23 years. But Bill Evans- he's a piano demigod. I wouldn't even call what he did piano playing. I call it "Harmonic Transcendence". His chords are not chords. They're mathematical beauty.
... are beauty math-chords
Fantastic
Thanks
The answer is simple, forget the theory and concentrate on playing with your heart and soul, no teacher or class will teach you to play with soul, life itself teaches you that.
@@truesearch69 You do need to know the theory by heart to do that, sadly. If your subconscious can process the theory for you, only then can the conscious self play their heart out. And that takes decades of dedication and mastery.
His finger technique and control of tone, as well as thinking in long structures / melodic lines make him come very close to a classical concert pianist. Of course his taste and harmonic genius on top of that make him the unique Jazz musician he was. The guy is fascinating!
That would be because he was a classically trained pianist and composer. It's literally what he studied in school in his youth.
That's not his point there's many classically trained pianists who just play fast garbage
And my point is that saying he "comes very close to a classical concert pianist" misses that that's actually what he went to school for and is trained in, making the comparison pointless.
okay and he made jazz music not classical music so hes not a classical concert pianist hist music just has a classical sense
Yup, thanks to being a classically trained pianist.
I was born in 1961 - when Bill cut the Live at the Village Vanguard performances with his original trio. Now that I'm 60, I appreciate his music more than ever. I was a latecomer to jazz, introduced to it in college in 1981. I missed 20 years of this, as it was happening! Since college I've traveled the world and find a jazz club in every city - Ronnie Scott's in London, Nardis in Istanbul, now defunct places in New York, LA and SF were some of my favorites. Watching this lifts my spirits, but fills me with such a sense of loss.
You’re cool.
I hear you about the defunct bit. Bradley's in NY was probably the greatest piano room. Also Seventh Ave. South, Sweet Basil. Knickerbocker is still there. Unfortunately, the audience has dwindled.
Si Lees esto que Dios te bendiga a ti y a today tu familia
I am happy that i was lucky enough to listen to him playing piano on the stage.
Lucky to hear him at the Village Vanguard in 1969 -- with Jeremy Steig on flute.
Chuck Israels on bass, one of the most beautiful bass tones of all time, and his timing is always superb.
Eddie Gomez on bass
@@milescockfield No, it really is professor Chuck Israels on the first video, second one comes in a very young Niels Pedersen NHOP on bass, third video on it's Eddie Gomez
absolutely.....underated ..IMHO....
@@robertjacksonnuages Agreed!
I return again and again to listen this wonderful music, always like a caress for the soul!
In 64’ I was 8 years old and this was “old peoples music “ that bored me to sleep .Now that I am old it soothes me to sleep.
Can't you feel how he becomes part of the piano like he is an extension of the instrument. He lives in his music.
I love the way he 'enveloped' a ballad, so moving, like I was playing the music with him. So sad, he left us too soon.
A real gift to music.
DJ 🎹
He's part of the heroin
@@prako2710 You didn't have to say it. I remind you that drugs were part of the musician life in that time, even now. Bill Evans was no the exception. He left a unique piano style and he is part of the jazz heroes forever. 🎹🎼
@@prako2710 it unreal that's all you can respond. Judge what you must. This is not merely some heroin high. This is unbelievable skill, intuition, deep attunement and years of learning, experiment. All in all: talent at its best. That he could and did function while also using addictive substances is the sword of damocles in a way. His personal life left a lot to cope with over the course of living, loving, gifting the music world with incredible sound and feeling, travel, making a living, recording. More than many.
I can feel that back pain
FABULOUS, even to this mild day in 2023!! Thank you, Mr. Evans!
2023 🍾
Late September with rain and clouds just as fine 😁
For 50 years I've visited Bill Evans's music, gotten saturated in a good way before heading in another direction for a few months, and then I come back and hear things I didn't hear or appreciate, marvel at his art, and repeat the process, and it never, ever gets old.
Bill Evans is one of my favourite pianists. This period of jazz is one of my favourite kinds of music.
Lettuce not forget utube for this broadcast that has filled our ears and minds😎
Still, for me, it is always Bill Evans who I want to listen to.The best.
Gosh what a mood...
I was only thirteen
At my Aunt and Uncles cocktail
Parties...and this was playing
On the turntable....in the corner
Watching people......
Glamorous.
I'm listening in 2022. Been listening since the 60s.🙂
The maestro ❤
I don't know how to critique this because I have no musical talent, but his music goes to straight to my soul.
There's a teacher at Berklee that says If it's good jazz, no explanation is necessary. If it's bad, no explanation is possible. Enjoy!
You just did a fine critique.
I swear that I have used those exact words -- not to others but to myself.
You just had done brilliantly what you thought you couldn’t have!
Evans said he valued the feedback from the lay listener, as opposed to musicians who were too caught up in the technical aspects of improvising.
This never gets old, a sweet fresh wine every listen, every hour, every night.
Así es, es como el 🍷 vino!!! 😍🇨🇱
@@mariaantonietapantojamansi2873 creo que eso también
It doesn't get any better than this.
First time I heard Bill it was in 1967 in the house of my girlfriend. In that day I suddenly heard sounds from Trio 64 album .
What a magic sounds coming from de LP
Since then, listening Bill Evans music is a part of my life.
Something about the Bill Evans Trio makes me so melancholic yet joyful at the same time
Yeah That's how his music makes me feel too!
Heroin
He's surgically, beautifully, dissecting your heart. 💔He had lots of practice with his own 🥲💖 I'm in love with him🥰
The Master of Masters...truly music that is heaven sent... a genius without comparison whose tinkling ivory will live forever
2022 December , Bill Evans The Best
Bill had magic in his heart....RIP
This is Bill Evans at his greatest. At once precise and lush, painterly and mathematical, emotional and intellectual, a truly amazing performance, with high quality video and sound, a treasure
Painterly
I really like the way you characterized the wonderful artistry of Bill Evans.
At once? Cmon man
Bill Evans was by far my greatest influence. You cannot understand how much his music and play meant to me.
Yes I can. You’re not alone.
Those of us who love this ...Salute Him who gave us these Great Human Beings with their AWESOME Gifts of Music ... Love this ...Love Oscar Peterson , Diana Krall ..OMG so wonderful a list...without end !
In the early 70’s I was a music major at MPC in Monterey. Bill Evans did a couple clinics for us, with his trio. Wow it was incredible to see him so close and be able to ask musical questions.
you ask him anything?
Such beautiful music... thank You God for the gifts you give Your children. Bill Evans was so lyrical and beautiful. Same for the whole Trio... Bill chose beauty in the music and the musicians
Timeless classic music. Bill was the Debussy of jazz. He died way to young.
hm, Debussy is more or less boring and Bill Evans is really exciting. If to compare than with Eric Satie from whom Debussy stole his best ideas and melodies. But why to compare, Bill Evans was outstanding, a very rare genius, a master pianist and his harmonic visions were revolutionary. .
jon Debussy boring lmao
2022 вечность, можно слушать бесконечно шедевр века ❤❤❤
All the good ones go after him. Bill Evans, supreme. Thanks.
no matter what my current musical tastes or obsessions are, i always come back to Bill. i truly love this man's music.
Yes... such respect
My experience, too -- for more than sixty years.
Every chord, the perfect color. Every run and riff, the perfect narrative.
Awesome!
Very beautifully described. Are you a musical artist?
There are no words apt to describe what one can feel, listening to Bill's music. In particular about the live situations. There are no words because "words are the children of reason" (Bill Evans)
I do listen to the one and only not lonly he reborns my hear my mind the Will on my heart for music
Bill's music make life worth living. Thank you.
Too bad he didn’t feel that way
My foolish heart is one of the most beautiful pieces ever created
Not to state the obvious but Bill Evans' sense of harmony is transcendent. It knows no bounds.
Always a delight to listen to.
Bill is quite an artisan and craftsman, who hones each note and key with the precise harmony and quality to soothe that weary spirit back to life. My deepest respect for such a dedicated artist as no other.
The people in the audience were so lucky to witness such genius.
Velice dobrý jazz!
This is just so beautiful and the world we all used to live in.
Bill Evans, the most fluent jazz pianist ever. anything coming from his genius mind was manifested on the keyboard. timeless.
i almost cried listening to this for the first time
指の先まで優しく、
哲学まで感じるエヴァンスのピアノは、間違い無く心を癒して下さいます！
私も思います
心と魂
What an incredible pianist. So creative and inventive. We’re talking about 1965. He was like the J S BAUCH OR MOZART OR CHOPIN OF MODERN DAY JAZZ PIANO PLAYING
인류사에 이렇게 소중하고 아름다운 공연이 영상으로 남아 있다는 사실이 너무나 다행스럽고 감격스러울 따름입니다.
Bill Evans, a man whose piano effulges with genuine strokes of emotions. Aways watch his left hand. One of our greatest jazz pianists. The effect on me is his touch watching his hands play.
With deepest respect and admiration, I honor all who were fortunate enough to have played with him. ❤️
I'll be listening to this in my car all day tomorrow for sure.
Masterpiece . BILL EVANS Genius of Jazz.
Oh my God. Just really amazing.
Bill Evans único e irrepetible!!!! Por siempre y para siempre!!!!
Bill Evan's playing is so sublime...almost hypnotic. What notes he doesn't play are at least as important as the ones he does.
Well said - as is true in Jazz as a whole.
I learned that from Bleeding Gums Murphy,
Love it 💚
BUONAZZO...
Especially true, since it appears he only breathes while not playing notes
Remember children...this is the eventual posture of all great pianists...and so many other wonderful professions...please folks..understand the physical demands of your career choice..no pain..no gain...
Possibly the greatest jazz pianist ever.
Bill's fave was Bud Powell.
I do. Listen to Evans daily.
First up, is Bill with Chuck Israels and Larry Bunker. This is the trio that booked into the Rubiot in Tulsa OK for two one week engagements in '63 or '64. As I was the drummer in the house band, I got to sit next to the stage every night, an unforgettable experience. In my opinion, this was Bill's best, most compatible trio.
Thanks, there was no lineup information in the description. I was wondering the name of the bassist. And also the drummer, etc. Important information.
Bill Evans was a master of his craft. Every time he touched a piano, it just sang beautifully; effortless. I am now studying Jazz piano and Bill Evans is my guide.
who listens in 2023?
This is truely beautiful, emotional, touching music. Sadness and reflection expressed in this music heals people's heart.
hard to imagine music this good but there it is.
This is Bill at the top of his game, not saying anything new here that the band's sensitive and intuitive interplay, Bill's innovative harmonic and compositional genius and his ability to "live inside the music" is magical and extraordinary. One of the best things I have ever seen or heard.
In the past, I have not been much of a fan of piano music because I didn't give it adequate attention. I remember when bill Evans played with Miles, I pretty much ignored him. Years later I firdt heard Waltz for Debby, i suddenly was so impressed by the piece tha I seriously wanted to know who this guy was. I wasn't disappointed. I found a musician who fused his heart and soul into everything he did, and it always came out beautiful. Nowadays I pay more careful attention to pianists. I don't want to miss another Bill Evans.
Some of Bill Evan's music makes me happy and sad at the same time. I can't explain or understand that, but his music is awesome.
Thank God that someone had the foresight to record this wonderful pianist and his two back up masters so the young generation in time will be able to learn what real musical talent is
Imagine we have kids listening to something called rap ........ Makes me really wish I had already lived
...I wonder how hot on "jazz" your antecedents were when it started out with 'uncouth black folks', @@cycloneranger5354? See what I did there? Oh, never mind.🙄
@@cycloneranger5354 I mean hip hop instrumentally pulls largely from jazz, you rejecting new genres of music is the same as the youth rejecting old genres of music. I’m 16 and I listen to Jazz, Classical Music, Classic Rock, 90/80’s Hip Hop and more. And I’m not alone tons of my friends listen to similar music, not every teenager listens to rap.
@@terminalfilms8074 Ok, I was a bit tough. I listen to hip hop as well.I should have wrote trap and not rap. Trap music is literal garbage
@@illitrait Something to be said for the level of musical talent and skill back then. Now we have young rappers yelling nothing but profanity and slurs. Something to be said for the musician here.
How could anyone who has a pair of ears not like this, it is just divine.
:))))
Millennials
@@DSAK55 Did you know that "millenial" refers to someone who was born in the 80's or 90's? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials#Date_and_age_range_definitions Those people grew up with plenty of exposure to jazz, from Mister Roger's Neighborbood to East Coast Rap.
@@DSAK55 lol any generation can like this, they just need to be aquainted to jazz
@@TheSilence1 Yeah, we're not the youngest generation anymore. People can start dumping on the new generation now : ) It's true, the Boomers grew up with some of the best records and artists ever, but they also voted for Benedict Donald : )
Bill is someone who played from his heart, Myself and the world of music shall always never forget him.
I wonder how many people listen to music with the kind of intensity that you need to appreciate this kind of thing.
Mi pianista de jazz favorito. Habíamos comprado los tickets para verlo en vivo en un concierto en el Montmatre Hus de Copenhagen (1980). Hicimos una larga cola. Esperamos impacientemente su presentación a las 10 pm. A las 10.45 pm aparece el dueño del local, Danmarks Kaj, y da excusas por la cancelación del evento. "Mr. Evans está arriba en el hotel y pide disculpas por no poder aparecer esta noche, no se siente bien". Bill Evans murió a la semana siguiente. Pero, para mí sigue siempre vivo en mi corazón, cada vez que lo escucho. Una catarata armónica que sale desde su alma hacia sus dedos y vuelve a sus oídos y a los nuestros.
Increible anecdota!