New Bill Evans on YouTube

Four Bill Evans live recordings have surfaced over the past few months on YouTube. Since the last two weeks of the year are often contemplative, these clips should be most welcome: 

Here's the Bill Evans Trio, with Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen on bass and Alan Dawson on drums, playing Beautiful Love in Denmark in 1965. This went up last month...



Here's the Bill Evans Trio at the Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, R.I., on July 2, 1967, with Eddie Gomez on bass and Philly Joe Jones on drums, with Billy Taylor announcing. They play Nardis, Very Early, Some Other Time, Who Can I Turn To and I'm Getting Sentimental Over You. This went up in August...



Here's Bill Evans playing solo piano at New York's Carnegie Hall, with Marian McPartland announcing, on June 30, 1974. He plays Since We Met, Two Lonely People and Turn Out the Stars. This went up last week...



And here's the Bill Evans Trio live in Bad Hönningen, Germany, on August 15, 1980, featuring Marc Johnson on bass and Joe LaBarbera on drums. It would be Evans's last concert in Germany. He died a month later, on September 15. The trio plays Letter to Evan, Yet Ne'er Broken, Laurie, Bill's hit Tune, Knit for Mary F., Days of Wine and Roses, Your Story, But Beautiful, If You Could See Me Now and Waltz for Debbie. This went up in June...