Yesterday, the autumn sky in New York was bumper-to-bumper with billowy clouds in all shades of white and slate grey. No rain, just a sea of moody cumulus formations muscling their way east across Manhattan. A perfect day to write with Bill Evans playing.
Which led me to three videos of Evans—two that went up at YouTube recently and another from Facebook that Dave Thompson found and sent along:
Here's the Bill Evans Trio in 1964, with Evans on piano, Chuck Israels on bass and Larry Bunker on drums playing My Foolish Heart and Israel. Note how superb Chuck is here...
Here's the Bill Evans Trio in 1966, colorized, in Oslo playing Time Remembered, with Evans on piano, Eddie Gomez on bass and Alex Riel on drums...
Which led me to three videos of Evans—two that went up at YouTube recently and another from Facebook that Dave Thompson found and sent along:
Here's the Bill Evans Trio in 1964, with Evans on piano, Chuck Israels on bass and Larry Bunker on drums playing My Foolish Heart and Israel. Note how superb Chuck is here...
Here's the Bill Evans Trio in 1966, colorized, in Oslo playing Time Remembered, with Evans on piano, Eddie Gomez on bass and Alex Riel on drums...
This story appears courtesy of JazzWax by Marc Myers.
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