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Coffee and Cigarettes

Bill Evans

Label: Nagel
Released: 2023
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Tracks

Some Other Time; Lucky to Be Me; Night and Day; What Is There to Say; Detour Ahead; Peace Piece; I Wish I Knew; Haunted Heart; Sweet and Lovely; My Foolish Heart; My Romance; Tenderly; Waltz for Debby; Young and Foolish.

Personnel

Sam Jones
bass, acoustic

Album Description

"I remember finding that somehow I had reached a new level of expression in my playing. It had come almost automatically, and I was very anxious about it, afraid I might lose it", Evans said. One of the new pieces was Leonard Bernstein's "Some Other Time". Evans started to play an introduction using an ostinato figure. However the pianist spontaneously started to improvise over that harmonic frame, creating the recording that would be named "Peace Piece“. According to Evans: "What happened was that I started to play the introduction, and it started to get so much of its own feeling and identity that I just figured, well, I'll keep going." "Bill had this quiet fire that I loved on piano. The way he approached it, the sound he got was like crystal notes or sparkling water cascading down from some clear waterfall. I had to change the way the band sounded again for Bill's style by playing different tunes, softer ones at first.“ - Miles Davis

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