His "Conversations With Bill Evans" recording won the prestigious Echo Award in Germany in 1998.
WSJ: Jean-Yves Thibaudet | A Classicist in the Modern Age | Cultural Conversation by Stuart Isacoff
He loved Cal Tjader and Vince, Dave Brubeck and Bill Evans so it made sense to him.
Since then, Mr. Thielemans has collaborated with a wide range of jazz superstars, from Bill Evans to Quincy Jones.
Bill Evans, the analyst relations guy at Apple, had suggested that they fly me to Paris to do the launch event there.
FORBES: Apple's Genius Was Under My Fingertips The Whole Time
In "Blue in Green, " Hiromi embraces the chord structure and tempo used by pianist Bill Evans, inserting a rubato of her own virtuoso flights amidst the cycle.
When that trend ended, roughly in the early '60s, he had nine million acolytes wanting to play like Bill Evans, and it's still that way to this day.
On Tuesday, the rare material will finally be released on "Bill Evans Live at Art D'Lugoff's Top of the Gate" (Resonance) a two-CD set that rivals Evans's revered Village Vanguard recordings for Riverside in June '61.
It's a work he is just now learning for the first time an example of this pianist's habit of stepping out of his comfort zone, as when he recorded albums dedicated to the music of Bill Evans and Duke Ellington, despite his admission that he can't really improvise.
WSJ: Jean-Yves Thibaudet | A Classicist in the Modern Age | Cultural Conversation by Stuart Isacoff
Mr. RIZZO: OK. When I started coming up as a young jazz pianist in the '50s--and I'm giving my age away here--Bill Evans was the only guy on the scene who did not play in the tradition of the prevailing trend, which was hard bob gospel weird stuff.
The relationships of the trumpeter to the rhythm section, and of the solo to the underlying harmonies that support it, is highly influenced by "Kind of Blue, " specifically Davis's interplay with pianist Bill Evans and his subsequent experiments with his mid-1960s group, in which he continued along the same path with Herbie Hancock.
"The thing I'm worried about is the McCain bill, " says Richard Evans, a pharmaceutical analyst at Sanford C.
This is as true of 20th-century stars like Walker Evans, Elliott Erwitt or Bill Brandt as it is of the early snappers, such as William Constable, who set up the first photographic studio in Brighton in 1841.
Here, the saxophonist steps out with his new band, Wilsonian's Grain, which features pianist Orrin Evans, Ugonna Okegwo on bass and Bill Stewart on drums all long-time friends.
应用推荐