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Who Was Bill Evans?
Bill Evans, one of the most influential and tragic figures of the post-bop jazz piano, was known for his highly nuanced touch, the clarity of the feeling content of his music and his reform of the chord voicing system pianists used. He recorded over fifty albums as leader and received five Grammy awards. He spawned a school of "Bill Evans style" or "Evans inspired" pianists, who include some of the best known artists of our day, including Michel Petrucciani, Andy Laverne, Richard Beirach, Enrico Pieranunzi and Warren Bernhardt. His inescapable influence on the very sound of jazz piano has touched virtually everybody of prominence in the field after him (as well as most of his contemporaries), and he remains a monumental model for jazz piano students everywhere, even inspiring a newsletter devoted solely to his music and influence.
Explorations
By Bill Evans
Label: Craft Recordings
Released: 2025
Track listing: Israel;
Haunted Heart;
Beautiful Love" [Take 2];
Elsa;
Nardis;
How Deep Is the Ocean?;
I Wish I Knew;
Sweet and Lovely.
Hanamichi--The Final Studio Recording Vol. II
Label: Red Hook Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Manha de Carnaval; Improvisation II; Alone Together; Improvisation III; I Loves You Porgy;
Improvisation IV; My Ship.
Haunted Heart: The Legendary Riverside Studio Recordings (Remastered 2025)
By Bill Evans
Label: Craft Recordings
Released: 2025
Track listing: CD1: Come Rain or Come Shine (Take 5, Album Master); Autumn Leaves (Take 13, Stereo
Album Master); Witchcraft (Take 5, Album Master); When I Fall In Love (Take 2, Album
Master); Peri’s Scope (Take 2, Album Master); What Is This Thing Called Love (Take 4,
Album Master); Spring Is Here (Take 6, Album Master); Someday My Prince Will Come (Take
5, Album Master); Blue in Green (Take 3, Album Master); Witchcraft (Take 4, Alternate,
Mono); Witchcraft (Take 6, Alternate, Mono); Spring Is Here (Take 4, Alternate, Mono); Come
Rain or Come Shine (Take 2, Alternate, Mono); Come Rain or Come Shine (Take 4, Alternate,
Mono); CD2: Autumn Leaves (Take 9, Mono Album Master); Blue in Green (Take 1,
Alternate, Mono); Blue in Green (Take 2, Alternate, Mono); Someday My Prince Will Come
(Take 1, Alternate, Mono); Israel (Take 1, Stereo Album Master); Haunted Heart (Take 3,
Stereo Album Master); Beautiful Love (Take 2, Stereo Album Master); Elsa (Take 5, Stereo
Album Master); Nardis (Take 2, Stereo Album Master); How Deep Is the Ocean (Take 3,
Stereo Album Master); I Wish I Knew (Take 4, Stereo Album Master); Sweet and Lovely
(Take 4, Stereo Album Master); Elsa (Take 4, Alternate, Stereo); Elsa (Take 6, Alternate,
Stereo); Sweet and Lovely (Take 3, Alternate, Stereo); Sweet and Lovely (Take 5, Alternate,
Stereo); CD3: Sweet and Lovely (Take 6, Alternate, Stereo); Nardis (Take 1, Alternate,
Stereo); Beautiful (Take 1, Alternate, Stereo); I Wish I Knew (Take 2, Alternate, Stereo); I
Wish I Knew (Take 3, Alternate, Stereo); I Wish I Knew (Take 5, Alternate, Stereo); Haunted
Heart (Take 2, Alternate, Stereo); The Boy Next Door (Take 1, Outtake, Stereo); The Boy
Next Door (Take 4, Outtake, Stereo); The Boy Next Door (Take 6, Outtake, Stereo); Walking
Up (Take 1, Outtake, Stereo); How Deep Is the Ocean (Take 1, Alternate, Stereo); How Deep
Is the Ocean (Take 2, Alternate, Stereo).
Have A Holly, Jazzy Christmas
by Kurt Ellenberger
In my music history classes, particularly in November and December, students have often asked me about the relationship between jazz and Christmas: “Why are so many popular Christmas songs so jazzy?" It is a good question--indeed, many of the most popular secular Christmas music does have a jazz flavor, while a few are actually jazz. There ...
Vince Guaraldi’s Christmas Sauce: Adding Spice to Charlie Brown Vanilla
by Arthur R George
It's not simply that pianist Vince Guaraldi slipped jazz past the unsuspecting in composing A Charlie Brown Christmas, the evergreen “Peanuts" animation and soundtrack that has become inescapably part of the holiday. First broadcast in 1965, going on to six decades ago, A Charlie Brown Christmas is a tradition unto itself. It returns to television through ...
Bob Schlesinger: Falling From Earth
by Joshua Weiner
Many a music project was derailed by the COVID-19 pandemic, but Colorado-based pianist, composer, and educator Bob Schlesinger's Falling From Earth (Self-Produced, 2025) has had a longer gestation and more interesting rebirth than most. With funding from the Pathways to Jazz fund, part of the Boulder County Arts Alliance, Schelsinger initially planned for his first release ...
Improvising the Classics: Chopin Jazz
by Larry Slater
The pianist Ted Rosenthal once commented, “Many jazz pianists began their musical education studying classical piano. Why let those years go to waste? The classical repertoire contains a goldmine of material for the jazz pianist."Frederic Chopin wrote almost exclusively for the piano, and his flexible sense of time appeals to jazz musicians. Art Tatum ...
Mulo Francel & Rami Attallah Group: Global Players
by Ian Patterson
For most professional jazz musicians the jazz life is a labor of love--endless gigs over countless miles, early morning starts and early morning finishes. It is not all glamour, and the bills have to be paid, after all. Still, the lure of the road persists, and in this age of globalization the average jazz musician can ...
