Jazz Articles about Bill Evans

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Bill Evans: Conversations With Myself

by AAJ Staff
October 1, 1997

Technology and art have always had a tumultuous relationship at best. Advancements in technology have often been greeted by the artistic community by a split response: Some embrace the new technology and experiment with it, reaching out for new forms of expression that were impossible before; others shun the advances, dismissing them and those that use them as poor synthetic substitutions for “real" artistic struggle and creativity.

Today, a great deal of this controversy centers around the use of computers ...

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Bill Evans & Jim Hall: Undercurrent

by David Cohen
June 1, 1997

If Undercurrent, the first and superior of two piano / guitar collaborations by Bill Evans and Jim Hall, (the other being Intermodulation produced four years later), were a book and not a record, then the blurbs on the back of the dust jacket might read: “Lush...beautiful...touching" “Filled with almost fugitive nuance and effortless interaction" “Perfection in spiritual and technical communication" Together, throughout the album, Evans and Hall sound like so much more ...