Evans Bill

Bill Evans był jednym z najważniejszych pianistów jazzu nowoczesnego. Studiował w Southeastern Louisiana University i nowojorskiej Mannes School of Music. Evans reprezentował nowy styl, charakteryzujący się oryginalnym podejściem do harmonii. Posługiwał się dość często pedałem, nazywany był poetą fortepianu, swoje improwizacje budował racjonalnie, z pełną świadomością. Wpływ Evansa na innych pianistów można porównać do wpływu Johna Coltrane'a na saksofonistów.

A must for Evans fans, this book presents note-for-note piano transcriptions and performance notes for nine tunes played on 2/21/66 at Town Hall, Bill's New York concert debut. As his father had passed away shortly before, Bill played a requiem to him, which was repeated for TV in 1968 in memory of Bobby Kennedy. Tunes: Epilogue • Funny Man • One for Helen • Only Child • Orbit • Prologue • Story Line • Turn Out the Stars • Who Can I Turn To. Includes a foreword from project editor Jeff Sultanof.

Lista utworów:
Epilogue (Bill Evans)
Funny Man (Bill Evans)
One For Helen (Bill Evans)
Only Child (Bill Evans)
Orbit (Bill Evans)
Prologue (Bill Evans)
Story Line (Bill Evans)
Turn Out The Stars (Bill Evans)
Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me) (Anthony Newley, Leslie Bricusse)

This unique folio provides piano transcriptions and performance notes from two classic jazz compositions: 'Waltz for Debby" (or "Waltze for Debby:' since Evans used to spell 'waltz' with an e), was written during the summer of 1954, in honor of his older brother Harry's eldest daughter. "Very Early," another waltz, was written five years earlier; "Very Early" as a composition assignment in 1948 or 1949 during his third year at Southeastern Louisiana College. He was nineteen years old. This masterpiece is the earliest composition that became part of his active repertoire, and the first of about adozen compositions in 3/4 among the sixty-three original pieces published in the Evans fakebook. He obviously had an affinity for triple meter.