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Bill Evans / Randy Brecker: Soul Bop Band Live
by Woodrow Wilkins
&BBill Evans and Randy Brecker are both, to put it succinctly, well-traveled. In more than twenty years as a solo artist, Evans has been nominated for several Grammy awards, establishing a repertoire that includes traditional jazz, funk, hip-hop and Brazilian styles. Brecker has been delivering straight jazz, fusion, rock and R for three decades. Collectively, the ...
Bill Evans: The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings 1961
by George Kanzler
This 45th anniversary issue of all five June 25, 1961 sets by pianist Bill Evans' trio with bassist Scott LaFaro and drummer Paul Motian is rightly considered the crowning preserved achievement of one of the most influential piano trios in jazz history. This group was the coming out of a new, sensitive, interactive mode, a new ...
Bill Evans and Lee Konitz: Play the Arrangements of Jimmy Giuffre
by Matthew Miller
Merged from two brilliant 1959 studio sessions, this disc is, just as the title and artist credits suggest, a showcase for three immense talents. Those expecting to hear the snap-crackle of Roy Haynes' snare or Bob Brookmeyer's punctuated counterpoints after reading the all-star lineup may be surprised to hear them relegated to the background, but any ...
Bill Evans: How My Heart Sings
by Victor Verney
Bill Evans: How My Heart Sings Petter Pettinger Hardcover; 346 pages ISBN: 0300097271 Yale University Press 1998 The late Bill Evans, a cerebral, classically-trained pianist, was the first of many brilliant keyboardists whose careers were launched by Miles Davis. Sometimes described as the Chopin of jazz, ...
Ron Thomas Trio: Music in Three Parts
by Dan McClenaghan
Relative simplicity and a complete lack of pretense are two features that make Music in Three Parts such a standout sound. The disc's six tunes are based on three different musical figures: the three “Improptus" on a figure in D minor; the two “Caprices" on a figure in C major; and the final “Epilog" on a ...
Bill Evans: Soulgrass
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il banjo di Bela Fleck e il violino di Stuart Duncan che aprono l'album Soulgrass con l'omonimo brano, firmato dallo stesso Fleck e dal leader del progetto, il saxofonista americano Bill Evans, non lasciano spazio ad equivoci: siamo davvero in clima campagnolo. Ma dopo poco il sax pungente di Bill Evans ci scardina le fondamenta delle ...
Bill Evans - Nel bluegrass l'anima degli Stati Uniti?
by AAJ Italy Staff
All About Jazz: Bill, dopo più di 25 anni sulla scena, qual è il tuo punto di vista sullo stato di salute del jazz? Bill Evans: Quando ho cominciato ad andare in tour con Miles Davis nei primi anni ottanta, c'erano molte più sovvenzioni per le arti in Europa e negli Stati Uniti. C'erano più Festival, ...
California Here I Come
By Bill Evans
Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2005
Track listing: California Here I Come/ Polka Dots and Moonbeams/ Turn Out the Stars/
Stella by Starlight/ You're Gonna Hear from Me/ In a Sentimental Mood/ G Waltz/
Green Dolphin Street/ Gone With the Wind/ If You Could See Me Now/ Alfie/ Very
Early/ 'Round Midnight/ Emily/ Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams
