Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Bill Evans

























Artist:  Bill Evans
Birth Name:  William John Evans
Born:  August 16, 1929.  Plainfield, New Jersey, USA
Died:  September 15, 1980 (Aged 51).  New York City, New York, USA
Genre:  Jazz, Modal Jazz, Cool Jazz, Post Bop, Jazz Instrument, Piano Jazz
Occupation:  Musician, Composer, Arranger
Instruments:  Piano

Bill Evans was an American Jazz Pianist and Composer who mostly worked in a Trio setting.  He worked with bandleader and theorist George Russell.  In 1958, he joined Miles Davis's sextet, and recorded Kind Of Blue, the best-selling Jazz Album of All Time.  In 1959, he left the Miles Davis band and began his career as a leader with Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian.  In 1961, recording the highly acclaimed Sunday At The Village Vanguard and Waltz For Debby.  In 1963, he recorded Conversations With Myself, an innovative solo album.  He has become standards and has been played and recorded by many artists.  He was honored with 31 Grammy nominations and seven awards, and was inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall Of Fame.














Title:  Another Time:  The Hilversum Concert  (2017)
Genre:  Jazz, Modal Jazz, Cool Jazz, Post Bop, Jazz Instrument, Piano Jazz
Label:  Resonance Records
Rating:   *****

Tracks:

 1.  You're Gonna Hear From Me  (4:38)
 2.  Very Early  (5:25)
 3.  Who Can I Turn To?  (5:45)
 4.  Alfie  (5:41)
 5.  Embraceable You  (5:12)
 6.  Emily  (4:33)
 7.  Nardis  (8:48)
 8.  Turn Out The Stars  (5:02)
 9.  Five  (2:41)

Personnel:

Bill Evans:  Pain
Eddie Gomez:  Bass
Jack DeJohnette:  Drums

Another Time:  The Hilversum Concert is the live album by Bill Evans, was released on September 1, 2017 by Resonance Records, featuring Eddie Gomez and Jack DeJohnette, recorded live at Netherlands Radio Union studios in Hilversum on June 22, 1968.

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