Thank God for Europe and Scandinavia. If not for their government-sponsored TV stations, we'd never have intimate footage of American jazz stars in action. Today, two clips of the Bill Evans Trio in Stockholm, Sweden, in August 1964, with Evans on piano, Chuck Israels on bass and Larry Bunker on drums. Plus a bonus track:
Here's an extraordinarily intense rendition of My Foolish Heart...
And here's Johnny Carisi's Israel...
Bonus: Here's audio of Bill Evans, bassist Eddie Gomez and drummer Eliot Zigmund playing Enrique Granados's Granados, with the San Jose Symphony Orchestra in 1975, sent along by Dave Thompson...
Here's an extraordinarily intense rendition of My Foolish Heart...
And here's Johnny Carisi's Israel...
Bonus: Here's audio of Bill Evans, bassist Eddie Gomez and drummer Eliot Zigmund playing Enrique Granados's Granados, with the San Jose Symphony Orchestra in 1975, sent along by Dave Thompson...
This story appears courtesy of JazzWax by Marc Myers.
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