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Bill Evans Trio Simply Amazing Artist! Just discovered this great pianist while watching Netflix last saturday. If you have netflix check it out. He was amazing: http://movies.netflix.com...id=2361637 Just Music-No Categories-Enjoy It! |
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BIG TIME Bill Evans fan, checkout out my Youtube page to listen to more of Evans.
I recommend these albums to buy/checkout for starters.
Everybody Digs Bill On Green Dolphin Street Sunday At the Villiage Vanguard Waltz For Debbie Moom Beams Oh How My Heart Sings Solo Sessions 1 & 2 Conversations With Myself Time Remembered Bill Evans Alone Symbiosis I Will Say Goodbye Turn Out The Stars
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TD3 he's awesome! What an amazing trio he had. I want to get a biography, but there seems to be none about his life, mostly his music seesions. I'd like a book that does both. I'll look into those other CD's you suggested.
Orrdered these from Amazon Marketplace recently: Everybody Digs Bill Sunday At the Villiage Vanguard Conversations With Myself The Best of Bill Evans on Verve Definitive Bill Evans on ...p; Fantasy Got this last night. Fantastic CD: [Edited 1/26/12 6:46am] Just Music-No Categories-Enjoy It! |
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You'll want to get Bill Evans: How My Heart Sings by Peter Pettinger.
Brilliant, brilliant composer and band leader. Revoluntionize the trio setting how the piano, bass and piano interacted. You don't just have the bass holding down the bottom... keeping the bassline beat. I think my father and I saw Bill Evans last performances at Joe Segals, Jazz Showcase Lounge at the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago 1980. He had a six day engagement but he only stayed for 2 days. Jazz showcase holds about 200 people but there were about 10 to 18 people in the lounge to listen to Evans play. A couple of months later he passed.
Oh, you are gonna enjoy "From Left To Right".
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Yeah I saw that book on amazon.com. Did you read it? Your thoughts. Yeah I can't wait to get those CD's. Dude died so young too. How is the Tony Bennett CD's with him? Just Music-No Categories-Enjoy It! |
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This is about the best book about Evans on the market, its a must read. Seeing that the author had to speak with second and third hand persons about Evans, he did a pretty good job of covering his musical life and personal life. The Bennett/ Evans albums are a must have. Evans should've recorded more albums /songs with singers.. its a gap in otherwise remarkable career.
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Their music was often transcendent. I love Bill Evans. Good night, sweet Prince | 7 June 1958 - 21 April 2016
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I ordered the book. Man I'm just got 2 CD's in one package fron amazon marketplace Everyone Digs Bill Evans and New Jazz Conception( Just Music-No Categories-Enjoy It! |
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Bill Evans Disography: This partial of what I consider his essential albums. Evans did a lot session / sideman work but you can discover those on you own as you start to get into his music.
River Side Recordings (1957-64) New Jazz Conceptions 1957 Everybody Digs Bill Evans 1959 Portrait In Jazz 1960 New Jazz Conceptions 1962 Explorations 1961 Sunday At The Village Vanguard 1961 Waltz For Debby 1962 Moonbeams 1962 Know What I Mean 1962 * Interplay 1962 How My Heart Sings 1962 At Shelly's Manne Hole 1964
Verve Recordings (1962 - 1970) Empathy 1962 Conversations With Myself 1963 The V.I.P.s Theme 1963 Bill Evans&Gary McFarland 1963 Waltz For Debby 1964 Trio '64 1964 Stan Getz & Bill Evans 1964 Bill Evans Trio Live 1964 Trio '65 1965 A Simple Matter Of Conviction 1966 With Symphony Orchestra 1966 Bill Evans At Townhall 1966 Intermodulation 1966 Further Conversations 1967 California Here I Come 1967 At The Montreux Festival 1968 Alone 1968 What's New 1969 From Left To Right 1970 ------------------------------------------ [Edited 1/26/12 17:50pm] | |
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Bill Evans continued.
Fantasy Years (1973-79) The Tokyo Concert 1974 Intuition 1975 Bennett/Evans Album 1975 Since We Met 1976 Montreux III 1976 Quintessence 1977 Alone Again 1977 Crosscurrents 1978 Piano Jazz 1978 I Will Say Goodbye 1980 Re: Person I Knew 1981 Eloquence 1982
Milestone Tenderly 1957 Green Dolphin Street 1959 Loose Blues 1962 Interplay Sessions 1962 Solo Session 1 1963 Solo Session 2 1963 Time Remembered 1963 Gonna Hear From Me 1969 Jazz House 1969 Half Moon Bay 1973 Blue In Green 1974 Peace Piece and other Pieces 1975 * Getting Sentimental 1978
That's it of my collection. I like stuff in some kind of order to you get a feel of the artist and how they grow... or don't. -----------------------------------------------
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Wow that's a big collection TD3. I got a ways to go, but think I got a starter kit for now. So Tony was the only singing artist he played for? Just Music-No Categories-Enjoy It! |
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Yep... someone told me he recorded an album or a couple of songs with a women singer ( I think she was from Sweden) but haven't come upon that recording. Tony is they only major singer he collaborated with; I could see him playing with Vaughan, Fitzgerald, Sinatra, and McRae.
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Yeah I was thinking Sinatra, but of course Bennett is a favorite of mine too. I got the book from amazon today "How My Heart Sings", CD's Definitive Bill Evans on ...p; Fantasy and You Must Believe In Spring. Just Music-No Categories-Enjoy It! |
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A couple from their next collaboration (Together Again)...
I like this pairing. Although this raises Tony Bennett's game, he seems to get in Bill's way in a sense.
Which is why I prefer the "Trio" version of... "Ya see, we're not interested in what you know...but what you are willing to learn. C'mon y'all." | |
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Got these yesterday: Conversations With Myself and From Left to Right. He said in an Interview Tony was the only artist he wanted to play with, as he preffered to play Instrumentals. Just Music-No Categories-Enjoy It! |
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