I had to change the way the band sounded again for Bill’s style by playing different tunes, softer ones at first,” Davis had said.Īfter catching a recent screening of the Miles Davis documentary Birth of the Cool, I found it fascinating watching the interplay between musicians, especially the collaborative and compatible moments between Davis and Evans. The way he approached it, the sound he got was like crystal notes or sparkling water cascading down from some clear waterfall. “Bill had this quiet fire that I loved on piano. During this period Evans’s opportunities and focus on his own career would lead him to depart the group, then rejoin in early 1959 for the recording of Davis’s epic Kind of Blue. I was still listening, though by now I had it memorized.’ His fascination with the recording led to his decision to put Evans on the cover of Downbeat’s December 1960 edition.”Įvans would join Miles Davis’s band in April, 1958, replacing pianist Red Garland. This from Joe Maita in the blog, JerryJazzMusician: “In Lees’ essay The Poet: Bill Evans, he writes of his discovery of the great pianist in 1959, as editor of Downbeat, when he noticed, ‘among a stack of records awaiting assignment for review, a gold-covered Riverside album titled Everybody Digs Bill Evans… I took the album home and, sometime after dinner, probably about nine o’clock, put it on the phonograph. It was sometime in the late ’90s when I interviewed jazz journalist Gene Lees, who was central in elevating the mystique and publicizing the artistry of the brilliant pianist. Evans moved us into the modern piano era with follow-ups: Waltz for Debby, Portraits in Jazz, Sunday at the Village Vanguard, Undercurrents. I could hear it in Marvin Gaye’s music years down the road Little Anthony and the Imperials, jazz, soul, pop, they all owed Evans a firm handshake. ![]() The one solo piece - Peace, Piece - forever altered the landscape. Evans tucked himself away in the corner of the brain in such a way that it was as if life was one eternal cycle of springtime - renewal and rebirth.
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