I was the technical director on this show. What an amazing series of jazz shows we did back then. The video quality compared to todays standards is pretty poor but the audio and the performances are superb! And I dearly miss the director, John Beyer, who made this and many more shows I worked on a real joy.
@ricardosimoes
9 жыл бұрын
Dear Mr Don, I was a Berklee student from 75 till 79, and I'm trying to find out if there is any register of his performance at the JazzWorkshop (I don't remeber now if it was in 78 or 79..) the bass player was Eddie Gomez. Thanks a lot. Ricardo Simões from Brasil
@SuperSuperDon
9 жыл бұрын
***** Not that I know of.
@Choughzev
9 жыл бұрын
Don Sears Did anyone ever have an explanation of why they brought one of the great jazz artists of all time all the way out to Iowa, without bothering to provide him with a tuned piano? Such an incredible shame, since the video footage is so precious and he died soon after.
@SuperSuperDon
9 жыл бұрын
Choughzev On almost every music show I have worked on the piano is tuned right before the show. Frankly, I don't hear a tuning problem. I just hear great playing.
@nevillesivan1
8 жыл бұрын
+Don Sears Sounds great. Good Job Don and others. Not least Bill and his band :)
@catherineallison783
6 жыл бұрын
I hired the Bill Evans Trio in Victoria BC , provided my piano and tuned it for Bill. I have a recording of that memorable night in June 1980. Bill and I had dinner, spoke of him maybe moving to beautiful Vancouver Island, dreams unrealized. Bill kindly shared some musical ideas with me, a younger jazz pianist and I am eternally grateful for Bill's inspiration. I have over 70 of Bill Evans albums and his genius has inspired millions. Bill's virtuosity, sensitive, emotional playing has blessed the world forever. Bill Evans lives on through his music. Keith Allison.
@babalonworking6
5 жыл бұрын
lucky you!!!
@ttrons2
5 жыл бұрын
That's a great story.
@ajaygrg2625
4 жыл бұрын
please post the recording, please share
@golds04
4 жыл бұрын
Is the Evans estate prohibiting you from having it released? If not pls post. If so it is a shame. Otherwise not sure why mention you publicly -have the recording.
@jmarvins
3 жыл бұрын
@@golds04 where is the mention of this recording?
@snaaptaker
12 жыл бұрын
My wife and I were watching this video on PBS when a friend called to tell us that Bill had died that very day. He was my "main man", and I couldn't listen to his recordings for about 6 months after that. I knew him slightly, and we had a number of conversations over the years, for which I'm eternally grateful. BTW, this was not his last performance. He continued performing for nearly two more years, until shortly before his death on 15 September 1980.
@michaelobrien6412
2 ай бұрын
There was music professor at Penn State U. who introduced me to Bill Evan's music. Both are now gone but grateful to be able to still listen to a great, great artist.
@KentHewittpiano88
4 жыл бұрын
OMG!....47:42... Bill went above genius. Totally amazing performance. Thank you so much for this!
@jamesgarner7744
3 жыл бұрын
Nice to see you here.
@cloudbits514
3 жыл бұрын
He went super genius
@raymondvandevorst9913
3 жыл бұрын
what a surprice, yur a guru yourself Kent Hewitt
@andradas9688
2 жыл бұрын
a very common passage for Bill Evans, a fast arpeggio downwards changing the starting note several times in a sort of cascade-like movement. Yes, he was a genius. But this particular passage does not characterize your "above genius" remark. 14:48-14:58 = above genius
@curtisunit
Жыл бұрын
Wow. I was just listening to this on affinity before I came over here.
@melodyshirley
9 жыл бұрын
This music can lift you out of this troubled and depressing world of today. This tremendous gift of creative expression and incredible technique gives you some kind of hope that something so much better is intended for mankind than the horrors of the 21st century.
@tonalambiguity3345
4 жыл бұрын
This was literally at the peak of Bill’s depression. It didn’t lift him out. He died the following year from poor health management due to his crippling depression. His brother had just committed suicide.
@tonalambiguity3345
4 жыл бұрын
This is heart wrenching to watch
@deepstereotv
4 жыл бұрын
@@tonalambiguity3345 its heart wrenching for you... thats your perception and a depression you choose to focus on. Despite his depression.. his music is lifting and was lifting for him otherwise he'd of stopped playing wayyy before this time. The instrument is in fact the tool us musicians use to keep the very last strand of hope alive...the last bit of happiness if you will. Does that make sense? Hang in there...
@BernieHollandMusic
3 жыл бұрын
@@deepstereotv Great sense - people who get so upset by what they 'see' should use their ears instead - there is nothing depressing at all about Bill Evans making great music - I agree with you
@michaelchapman4955
3 жыл бұрын
'Yes!......
@erzenico
10 жыл бұрын
Setlist 00:24~04:56 Re: Person I Knew(Evans) 05:12~12:32 Midnight Mood(Zawinul) 12:40~18:30 The Peacocks(Rowles) 18:48~23:05 Theme From M.A.S.H.(Suicide Is Painless)(Mandel) 23:30~29:06 Quiet Now(Zeitlin) 29:08~35:10 Up With The Lark(Kern) 35:10~43:30 In Your Own Sweet Way(Brubeck) 43:40~50:10 I Do It For Your Love(Simon) 50:10~end My Romance(Rodgers/Hart)
@thezenbum
8 жыл бұрын
Midnight Mood (Joe Zawinul )
@anthonybrancale4855
7 жыл бұрын
erzenico Thank you
@bastianmbarahona
Жыл бұрын
It can't be, wheres gary's waltz?
@michaelchapman4955
Жыл бұрын
I knew Jazz pianist Jimmy Rowles from the LA Jazz dive circuit & His 2 daughters & Rowles's "The Peacocks" is a Rembrandt... which Bill Evans climbs inside.....
@franciscoaragao5398
Жыл бұрын
Obrigado, @erzenico
@andyginterblues2961
Жыл бұрын
I met Bill when he was at the top of his game in the early '70's. He played a gig at a jazz club in Buffalo N.Y called the "Revillot Lounge", and I was sent there to cover the show and to interview him for my family's local entertainment magazine. I was only seventeen or eighteen years old at the time! Bill gave a sterling performance. He was already beginning to suffer from the effects of the Hep C which later took his life. His wife told us that he would inject heroin into his fingers before a performance to kill the pain. That's dedication. Probably the greatest and most prolific jazz pianist of all time left us far too soon.
@alessandromarchesini9039
7 ай бұрын
...surely the best jazz pianist and not olnly jazz ex aequo with Glenn Gould and Telonious Monk...
@Moyshalom
9 жыл бұрын
What Bill Evans left behind is pure Gold
@williammcewen2988
8 жыл бұрын
+Moysha Barnett Pure beautiful gold.....we could go on...
@davidsempau2973
8 жыл бұрын
+Moysha Barnett I agree. Most spiritual pianist ever!
@PSLegend999
8 жыл бұрын
+Moysha Barnett Oh no, he's priceless unlike gold.
@knarf_on_a_bike
4 жыл бұрын
This is magic. RIP Bill.
@PieInTheSky9
10 жыл бұрын
Took me years to fully comprehend and appreciate late bill evans. Now I recognize it as some of the greatest music of all time.
@Grandadtech
9 ай бұрын
That reminds me of how I felt about Dave Brubeck, but Bill Evans, I was blown away the first time I heard him!
@bazzanojulian7729
3 жыл бұрын
His touch to the keys is so painful and yet so true and colourful. As he plays, he is capable of evoking a poignant memory to the listener in such a way that I feel personally connected to him. I think that's what makes Bill Evans so awesome, he paints a melody with his fingers that goes right through your throat and shows you that he felt that same way too... I will forever love Bill for what he did for me and for all of his listeners
@alandynin6023
Жыл бұрын
Beautifully said
@JAzdre57
5 жыл бұрын
The 1st time I heard Bill Evans was his Blue & Green recording. By then he was gone and I had no idea of who he was, the album was on the 50% rack at the music store and I liked the cover. Then I listen to it on my father’s stereo system. I was 22 years old and the music was hunting, emotional and beautiful. I’ve never considered music in such a way, however, this was something different. To this day, and 40 years later Bill Evans music moves me, almost to tears. His touch and emotion that he brought out in his music is unmatched. He’s long gone, However, his music will live forever.
@farangpaktai
8 жыл бұрын
Tracklist: 1 Re: person I know 00:00:25 2 Midnight mood 00:05:12 3 Peacocks 00:12:41 4 Theme from M.A.S.H. 00:18:49 5 Quiet now 00:23:40 6 Up with the lark 00:29:08 7 In your own sweet way 00:35:20 8 I do it for your love 00:43:54 9 My romance 00:50:20
@michaelchapman4955
3 жыл бұрын
I use to catch Jimmy Rowles who wrote 'Peacocks' periodically gigging at LA's SFV jazz clubs I use to frequent.... Jimmy was a kick & his daughter, Stacy on trumpet, flugelhorn & vocals often worked with her dad, Jimmy at many LA supper club venues
@antoniocarlosbigonha7380
3 жыл бұрын
I was influenced by Bill Evans since the first time that I heard him. I was a teenager. After 40 years he remains a daily partner.
@LisaKTownsend
7 жыл бұрын
This looks like sacred space to me. Jazz is truly a meditation that opens up emotions. Bill Evans was the best.
@FlachuPichu
Жыл бұрын
"El jazz es verdaderamente una meditación que abre emociones" Thank you!!
@sulevisydanmaa9981
3 ай бұрын
ALL ranking is childish. Andrew Hill ...
@Chrishna
2 жыл бұрын
I just recently discovered Bill Evans' work and now I can't stop listening to it. Especially this last trio... I'm in awe. Thank you Bill, Marc, Joe! Thank you KZitem-algorithm. You've enriched my life!
@davidbrucemccord
10 жыл бұрын
This was NOT Bill last performance! His last performance was in September 1980. I'm not sure the club in NY where that was. I saw him October 31, 1980 in San Francisco, Keystone Korner. His hands were quite swollen. This was a sign of impending kidney failure which finally took his life Sept 15, 1980. Just to set the record straight... I provided the piano, my Steinway "D" that I rebuilt and tuned for Bill and Dave McKenna at the Lulu White Boston performance Oct 30, 1979. I owned a piano rebuilding shop next door at 5 Appleton Street. I lived upstairs over Lulu White's on the 3rd floor. My girlfriend Veronique cooked a spectacular "Canard ala Orange" (orange duck) for dinner that night, and fed Bill and Marc and Joe. It was a memorable evening, one I'll never forget. Dinner with Bill Evans, Marc Johnson, Joe La Barbera, Doshie Powers, Micky Coutant, Veronique Prudhomme, and a piano performance I'll never forget. - David McCord
@FinbarKOTJ
10 жыл бұрын
was it his ghost then?
@kjuergens1985
10 жыл бұрын
Do you mean you saw him October 31, 1979? If he passed in September 1980. Awesome memories! I was born 5 years after BE's death, but I have had the pleasure of seeing Jim Hall and Paul Motian at the Village Vanguard, and Dave Brubeck at the Blue Note. I'm glad I went when I did, since Brubeck and Motian already are no longer with us. This is all within the last 6 years.
@snaaptaker
10 жыл бұрын
Kurt Juergens And now Jim Hall, also, is gone. RIP, Jim--my all-time favorite guitarist.
@caponsacchi
10 жыл бұрын
His last performance occurred during the first 2 weeks of September at the Keystone Korner, San Francisco. He flew back to NYC, was unable to play the next gig at the Village Vanguard in NYC, and died on Sept. 15, shortly after Joe LaBarbera had carried him into the ER. If you look at Bill's hands early in his career, you'll notice that his fingers are abnormally large--both in terms of their length and their width. Add to these natural "tone extractors" (he never had to hammer, pound, or hit the keys) his powerful, broad shoulders (he was no "skinny introverted intellectual," as he has sometimes been characterized), and you have the perfect physical specimen for playing the piano. He had only to "touch" the keys to extract the instrument's full sonorities (not possible by players with thin frames who moreover stand up while playing). And by bringing the full weight of his arms and fingers, using his shoulders for leveraging, he made a piano resonate with rumblings unheard of by dozens of pianists who pound, slam, and "elbow" the instrument. Moreover, Bill was dead accurate--his inerrant fingers capable of striking every note not only with precision but with equal pressure--in the left hand as well as the right, each finger in control of outer and inner voices. He's the only pianist I've heard who could drop drums, bass--and even left hand--and still make the listener feel as though he'd heard the entire instrument.
@ericharding92
7 жыл бұрын
This was actually recorded at the Maintenance Shop in Iowa and Bill was quite disapointed with the state of the piano. Good performance but I am sure he would say definetely not one of his best.
@matthewmercury1
8 жыл бұрын
Napoleon Dynamite on bass is killing it.
@kidcharlemagne7238
7 жыл бұрын
How chilled and relaxed people used to be without ugly handy phones stuck in your face, Bill lived the best era :)
@fives.
4 жыл бұрын
This man was an impossible, impressive level of genius.
@pangkamotegames
8 жыл бұрын
please god let me time travel when i die so i can see him play again
@ruivasconcelos4097
8 жыл бұрын
Don't you worry, my friend, there's no "time" (nor "space") in heaven to travel thru. All you gotta do is desearve it (and I'm sure you do), and when you die you'll see Bill Evans and whoever else you like playing. Best: for free...
@FornusSomeFornit
7 жыл бұрын
I'm not religious and I don't really believe in God but this gave me chills
@castinmeadows6956
4 жыл бұрын
@@ruivasconcelos4097 This is true. No "time." No "space." Which is to say, not such as (terrestrial) man has experienced and defined these. That one must earn, in this life, such a joy? Oh, my, goodness, yes. Peace.
@BernieHollandMusic
3 жыл бұрын
@@ruivasconcelos4097 That is a lovely comment - I believe you !
@luziavasconcelos8708
3 жыл бұрын
@@BernieHollandMusic Tks Bernie.
@forrestlowe4823
9 жыл бұрын
Collected jazz for 50 years ..... Bill is the wind beneath my wings .... I enjoy all types of music, jazz and otherwise, but Bill is the one that digs into my heart and just won't leave ..... his music touches the very deepest parts of my soul. I saw him once ... and that was enough for a lifetime. RIP, Bill.
@williammcewen2988
8 жыл бұрын
lovely words. I never saw him play. Been to the Village vanguard twice, in Homage. Tried to feel his presence.. emotion was poerful
@klaashoekman6651
7 жыл бұрын
forrest lowe
@BernieHollandMusic
3 жыл бұрын
"Bill is the wind beneath my wings" - wow ! what a beautiful comment
@cathywatt683
3 жыл бұрын
@@BernieHollandMusicHi. Not sure if you know that "Wind beneath my wings" is the title of a Bette Middler song which she sang for the police officers & Firemen in New York after 9/11. Beautiful song. It is indeed a lovely way to describe Bill Evan's influence.
@timchapman5567
3 жыл бұрын
Grateful to have heard him at the Vanguard in 1969, have listened to his music always, it never palls.I share your views.
@Beyondabsence
3 жыл бұрын
His playing in the last few years of his life was tempestuous, more intricate rhythmically and harmonically, restless. That airy, spacious feel of the late 60's was gone.
@jazz4asahel
2 жыл бұрын
Yes, I guess I was noticing the same. Thank you.
@saschakool
9 жыл бұрын
What a loss. But, Bill lives forever. What a blessing.
@kidcharlemagne7238
7 жыл бұрын
Bill Evans, we all should study this guy forever, What timing and touch and original trajectories like shooting stars to my ears and heart, Thanks so much for posting this precious farewell concert.
@snaaptaker
11 жыл бұрын
"Re: Person I Knew". It's an anagram on the name of Orrin Keepnews, the co-owner of Riverside Records, for which Bill first recorded on a regular basis.
@Ryanvllnva4200
9 жыл бұрын
This is not Bill Evan's final performance. His final performance was recorded at the Keystone Korner, north beach of San Francisco in September of 1980. He died shortly after on September 15, 1980. The name of the album was consecration.
@hivicar
9 жыл бұрын
Ryan Villanueva www.amazon.com/Very-Last-Performance-Bill-Evans/dp/B004785JGG The trio recorded this on their return to NYC, only a few days before his death.
@williamjohnson2792
7 жыл бұрын
Ryan Villanueva
@laurieverchomin8638
3 жыл бұрын
For the record Bill's final performance took place at Fat Tuesdays in New York September 10th 1980.
@freelanceer
10 жыл бұрын
Absolutely amazing!
@franckdebank
10 жыл бұрын
No it's just more than that!
@anandanaga999
10 жыл бұрын
Indeed. Considering now-a-days people will pay $28.50 to see a Guy eat 30+ Jalapenos and 50 tacos. Oh well, we never really believed all that stuff about culture anyway, did we?
@AlexSosaBolivia
9 жыл бұрын
Not half as amazing as your performance in Last Temptation of Christ. Bravo sir!
@thomaswesley2056
9 жыл бұрын
Willy Dafoe Happy 60th.
@kiyoshipf
10 жыл бұрын
I like Bill E, Thanks. Pianist Kiyoshi from Japan
@Alffovinni
6 жыл бұрын
SO BEAUTIFUL.... emotion, lyricism, harmonies, chemistry between the trio..... loss of words
@leshooper3866
9 жыл бұрын
My music would be so much less without his influence. Thank you Bill. Sadly he probably had no idea how loved he was.
@gerhardia
11 жыл бұрын
There is a CD:"His Last Concert In Germany"(rec.August 15.1980 in Bad Hönningen).It was his last recording date. CD 2022 Westwind Greetings from Germany
@perchst
10 жыл бұрын
Profound performance. So many great players today as well, bull they are completely out of Evans league. This guy was something special.
@cerval41
10 жыл бұрын
Bill Evans was incomparable!
@BernieHollandMusic
3 жыл бұрын
@@cerval41 Bill Evans IS incomparable ! xxx
@NickSandersMusic
4 жыл бұрын
This is such a great performance! Bill Evans was and will always be a musical hero of mine whose playing has deeply influenced me as an improviser and composer. One of the greatest to play the instrument!
@orqsilva
9 жыл бұрын
"The Peacocks" is great. Drummer does a good job. Unfortunately Bill Evans could never find another Scott Lafaro. It was like Scott, another genius, was always pushing him in new directions.
@santibogacz
8 жыл бұрын
+Jon Weiss Well, though that's true, he did find Eddie Gomez, who is not LaFaro, as well as LaFaro would have never been a Gomez. Gomez was certainly a the perfect bassist for Evans when he joined him, 'cause he surely came from the LaFaro school, but had another groove, a little bit more strident, which is just perfect 'cause Evans was undoubtely less "subtle" from the early '70s 'til his death. So, yes, he never found another LaFaro, but he found a Gomez. And thank god he did....
@williamfoster8478
8 жыл бұрын
Evans always had a knack for finding telepathic bassists. Gomez' work on "You Must Believe In Spring" is superb.
@MarvinTheAndroid-i9m
7 жыл бұрын
pretty much all the bass players he had in his trios were incredible soloists (LaFaro, Israels, Gomez, Johnson etc), and Evans was never shy about letting them loose and doing their thing - its one of the things I loved about Evans.
@ChitaraRomana
11 жыл бұрын
Im currently 17 and am sick of the overplayed crap I hear on the radio!! I truly wish with all my heart that this music comes back into style in a huge way!
@marcob1729
3 жыл бұрын
You wouldn't have heard this on the radio in '79 either
@margaretdavis1220
5 ай бұрын
Hi Chitara, I hope you have found a way to hear and support live jazz, wherever you are living. We have a weekly Monday night jazz jam at Petra's, in my town of Charlotte NC. It is a legacy tribute jam in honor of Bill Hanna, the "godfather" of jazz in Charlotte. Some of his students and colleagues have committed to continuing his practice of ensuring young and new players have a place to experience performing jazz for a live audience.
@michaelobrien6412
Ай бұрын
Keep it alive my young friend...you are the bearer of the Evans torch....let it never extinguish!
@quasidiem99
3 жыл бұрын
There is a performance in 1980 before he died. I assume you mean the last performance of 1979? Oddly phrased title.
@caponsacchi
11 жыл бұрын
This may be the most complete video of Bill's final trio. It's 1979 date--in Iowa, I believe. But Bill would evolve much more and in short order. His last complete performance is his stand the week before his death (9/15/80) in Frisco 2 sets of 8-disc CDs--"Consecration" and "The Last Waltz"--representing his entire 8-night stand. The evenness of both hands--the density of the chords--none of Bill's alleged proteges comes close. The piano sings as though from his emotive center.
@franguccio1
6 жыл бұрын
His playing is magnificent on this album...hard to believe he left us so soon after....
@aaustin2386
11 жыл бұрын
Legendary Bill Evans last performance in Ames, IA at the Maintenance Shop, w/ Joe LaBarbera on drums and Napoleon Dynamite on the bass.
@edwardlewis8045
10 жыл бұрын
Bill. We wish you were with us still. Stunning,fluid effortless and oh so sweet.
@himalayandream
10 жыл бұрын
The greatest. The greatest jazz pianist of all times. No matter.
@chiupiano
10 жыл бұрын
Don't forget Art Tatum by the way :)
@caponsacchi
10 жыл бұрын
No danger of that. Few have ever known his music. He's a musician's musician, requiring: 1. Knowledge of the standards from the Great American Songbook that he chose to play; 2. an ability to analyze, or at least a keen appreciation of, his rapidly changing harmonies and keys (Tatum's complexity didn't even depend upon substitute, or altered, harmonies. What he does within the conventional formats of the 32-bar popular song is the equivalent of what Shakespeare could do within the strictly defined form of the sonnet.)
@BernieHollandMusic
3 жыл бұрын
"The greatest jazz pianist of all times" - that is a very bold, maybe extravagant comment - but - you know - I agree with you - Bill Evans has never been surpassed
@elviajove8289
3 жыл бұрын
Hands down!
@LauraLovesLounge
3 жыл бұрын
@@BernieHollandMusic Indeed, a very bold statement. Yet no one has denied it because they can't... at least not yet. But I am hopeful. And I wait. And I listen...
@dvgebhart
Жыл бұрын
Marc Johnson is amazing 🤩
@tacey505
3 жыл бұрын
a man possessed by musical genius, whilst us mortals argue as to whether or not this was or was not his last "complete performance" ffs people enjoy the music and stop bickering, esp for a guy whose death was described as the longest suicide in history
@momolly2913
2 жыл бұрын
Suicide's effect upon his soul, may possibly explain his many various interpretations of the theme from Mash "Suicide is Easier".
@caponsacchi9979
6 ай бұрын
One of Mark Johnson's best solos. But Bill would keep giving "complete last performances" for another year.
@christhomas5247
3 жыл бұрын
Oh my goodness Bill Evans and friends tearing it up!
@giovannapozzoli2200
9 жыл бұрын
Pianista immenso, paradisiaco
@robertomar1923
8 жыл бұрын
great Bill always in my soul...I'll never will say good bye...
@organ444
9 жыл бұрын
Nothing short of breathtaking. Bill Evans on piano and Napoleon Dynamite on bass. 'Heck yesss!' What more could you want?
@spacevspitch4028
5 жыл бұрын
Girls like guys with skills. Nunchuck skills, jazz bass skills, etc...
@richiebeirach3671
Жыл бұрын
this was NOT his last performance !! please stop spreading lies !!
@whmitty1
9 жыл бұрын
He OWNS the piano.
@jimbaker6442
5 жыл бұрын
I have practically everything bill has ever recorded and I swear his playing just kept getting better and better. The two guys he has accompanying him are top-notch players. I'd love to get this concert on CD.
@wadecottingham
5 жыл бұрын
thanks for posting. no thanks for the title ...which you should revise.
@fregot
9 жыл бұрын
So sad this incredibly beautiful and important occasion shall forever be infected by inferior equipment and crew. The piano is horribly out of tune in the treble, the mikes feed back here and there, and Bill has to comment on the sound in his monitors more than once, and even "jokes" about it after "Theme From M.A.S.H.", indicating the sound guys didn't do their job. So sad and disrespectful.
@caponsacchi
9 жыл бұрын
Bill Evans was the last pianist to express through the keys of a percussive instrument a personal voice that sang excruciating pain one instant and ecstatic joy the next. He belongs in the tradition of the great Romantic artists--like Shelley, Keats and Yeats-- Brahms, Rachmaninoff and Berg, Schoenberg, Debussy and Ravel. Much of what he did was beyond logical analysis and explanation, but some of it can be seen in the mechanics of his physical structure--he was practically born to play the piano. He had broad, powerful shoulders which, when leveraging huge and thick but dead accurate fingers, coaxed from the instrument spell-binding pianissimos and thunderous fortissimos--all without a hint of pounding, forced dynamics, or wasteful elbow movement. Then there's his uncanny control of dynamic scale--his left-hand textures matching those of the right hand--except when, through the careful adjustment of pressure to the keys, he wishes to bring out a countermelody. Whereas many players lay back on the tempo, Bill employs, very deliberately and incessantly, a device he calls "anticipatory rhythm," which he achieves by "lunging" into a measure before its arrival in metrical time, thus gaining a beat and injecting greater momentum and urgency to all that he plays (to hear Bill's explanation and demonstration, check out his visit on Marian Mcpartland's "Piano Jazz," the NPR program that he visited in 1979, just before debuting his final trio (which replaces the intimate impressionistic art of his early trio with the deep, profound and unabashed expressionistic art of his last. There's much more, but that would require another box or two. His life was short, and his career interrupted by numerous setbacks and tragedies, yet he managed to evolve as an artist, the totality of his journey comprising as impressive an arc of development as any other jazz artist.
@SirensTunes
9 жыл бұрын
+caponsacchi Awesome post and I agree with almost everything you've said except "Much of what he did was beyond logical analysis and explanation" Honestly Bill's music is extended tonality within the vein of typical jazz language (basic modes, melodic minor modes, upper structure logic, quartal structures, 0 1 8 voicings, diminished scale and tritone sub logic, etc). He was incredible at linear connection and commanding multiple voices in his texture which obscures much of his straight forward musical language. He was a very conservative musician. My favorite pianist ever and I learn more and more from him every day. That being said, if you think his music defies logical analysis or is mystical I encourage you to learn a bit more and transcribe his works. Beautiful post though.
@williammcewen2988
8 жыл бұрын
+caponsacchi and Chopin
@maggiessong
7 жыл бұрын
i love what you say about BE caponsacchi. You are a perceptive and sensitive listener. I was blessed only one year ago when I began listening to the musical legacy of Bill Evans. His music has changed my life. Thank you for your comments.
@jaybreen1010
7 жыл бұрын
Wonderfully articulated! Thank you for so insightful and observant a commentary.
@Bix12
6 жыл бұрын
I agree with your assessment that Bill was part of a very unique niche of artists, and as such was adept in expressing myriad emotions. It's appropriate you compare him with impressionist composers such as Debussy and Ravel, and expressionists like Schoenberg or Alban Berg because I've always interpreted the essence of Bill Evans as very visual, or tonal, sonically and visually. His compositional style is impressionistic, whereas his performing/playing is very expressionistic.
@peliparado94
8 жыл бұрын
This is amazing. Though I honestly preffer the style of the earlier Evans. Remember how he used to lean towards the piano in absolute concentration and extasy? Though this Evans shows a more developed and technichal style, I feel as if the younger Bill put a bit more spirit in his performances, which generated a more profound connection with the audience and the listener, while this one feels more composed and professional (though, I dont think I have to state that all Evans recordings are amazing and timeless, and the Lafaro and the Eddie Gomez trios are pretty hard to top).
@antonyirvine9338
4 жыл бұрын
Agreed. Very proficient playing and a more florid style but less intense for sure though at times he attains something close to a transcendent quality in his playing.
@BernieHollandMusic
3 жыл бұрын
@@timothyjensen179 There is no such thing as 'almost dead' - you are either dead or alive - and Bill his alive here - I can hear that in every note he plays
@jman12849
3 жыл бұрын
this is his cocaine period. much more frantic, dense harmonies and playing.
@scottguido8323
8 жыл бұрын
I submit that Bill Evans was a great "lyrical and melodic" pianist. His recordings with Tony Bennett are a Must hear. Sadly for all of us, heroin and cocaine abuse took his life far too early. His "body of work" has withstood the test of time
@meredith218461
8 жыл бұрын
I've always greatly admired Bill Evans after seeing him at Ronnie Scotts many years ago. His insightful and highly innovative style was absolutely unique among pianists, there was never a superfluous note in an Evans performance.
@davidbrucemccord
11 жыл бұрын
Yes, I concur - this was not his last performance. I saw him perform in SF roughly Sept 1, 1980, about 2 weeks before he died. Joe and Marc and I went to breakfast after the gig and worried about Bill whose hands were quite swollen (impending kidney failure) He played well anyway. I provided Steinway pianos for him and tuned for him whenever he played in Boston during 1977 to 80. I also knew him a little bit.
@camdor
11 жыл бұрын
Right, he was active for over a year and a half more. We could have been at Bourbon Street that same night. And we saw BE there a few years earlier when he still had Eddie Gomez and I think Marty Morell. Well that would make it before 1976. And of course we were always at the Town Tavern in the very early days, when BE came in with Scotty LeFaro and Paul Motian and they blew everyone's minds. What a genius. What a band. What a loss. Thank goodness for the records. They never ever get old.
@Walterriostango
8 жыл бұрын
Increible ,pero cierto.....que manera de tocar y armonizar......uyyyy!! pasa el tiempo y parece que fué un sueño verlo por ultima vez en el 79 en una actuacion de despedida ......impresionante, con un joven Marc Jhonson y un Labarbera , que me marcaron con un Adios Maestro!!!!!
@philburpalooza8
7 жыл бұрын
Walterriostango ¡Claro que si....Lo mejor!
@rnethercutt
7 жыл бұрын
Bill played at his alma mater, Southeastern Louisiana University, only a few months before passing. It was an incredible evening; he even addressed one of his former teachers and classmates in addition to introducing the tune. He also held a very nice interview on the CD "Homecoming."
@jessicakling1094
10 жыл бұрын
I know this is really off of the whole jazz thing, but doesn't the bassist remind you of Napoleon Dynamite?
@jazzguy2k
10 жыл бұрын
you can appreciate this, and compare it in any way to that adolescent crap?
@spencernolton855
10 жыл бұрын
Yes. Obviously we all like this music and appreciate it if we're listening to it willingly.
@thehumblegent
10 жыл бұрын
Well, I wanted him to look like Napoleon, but I don't think he does, maybe if his 'fro was bigger? Jazzguy, lighten up eh, Jessica was only making an amusing comment, and it doesn't take anything away from the beauty of the music or performance. I'm no expert but surely Peace Piece is the ultimate Bill Evans piece. Thanks for posting. Peace/Love
@juliopereira8632
5 жыл бұрын
jajajajajajaja
@velahsrab
9 жыл бұрын
last performance was at Fat Tuesday. Same trio.
@BernieHollandMusic
3 жыл бұрын
Mardi Gras - yeah, I met Les Paul there - who had Paul Motion on drums ! this was nearly 40 years ago
@madrobotfan
5 жыл бұрын
Love his first trio, and the 2nd, but I am loving his last trio the most lately. His playing so beautiful at this stage, most profound, right to the very end. The Keystone Corner tracks incredibly moving. He knew the end was near and was living to play. Read "How My Heart Sings" book, puts it all in perspective and so many records and live videos available to refer to. Best time to get into Bill.
@fjordking
10 жыл бұрын
people with this much talent I cant understand the need for things like heroin most of us would love to have just a little of his talent. As I hack away on the piano I can only dream to play like that. Thank you for posting this wonderful video
@geolin5578
10 жыл бұрын
yes talent and sense often dont go together.
@michaelhoward7009
10 жыл бұрын
If you had that much talent, you might understand why.
@caponsacchi
10 жыл бұрын
The same is true of many 'legit" artists--in literature and music. When people use Bill's lifestyle choices against him, I simply remind them of some of the sad, tragic circumstances of composers like Schubert and Schumann--or the great Romantic poets, who burned out by 30 (and one who lived into old age--Wordsworth--didn't write much of worth after the age of 30). You can never judge a book by its cover. On the other hand, what if the artist had not dealt with these enormous tragedies and unfortunate choices? Would he have been the same artist? Would he have been "better"? For creative genius, you can't come up with easy answers or logical explanations. It's not possible to pick and choose. Out of chaos and darkness come form and light. It's the price, or "burden" of creative genius, which shows us beauty beyond what most people can't conceive of let alone know. John Keats (2nd only to Shakespeare) said it best: "Truth is Beauty; Beauty is Truth--That is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
@stevengregory3991
6 жыл бұрын
Talent comes with a baggage.
@tune7333
5 жыл бұрын
probably cause they find it all too easy..nothin left to reach for..
@golds04
4 жыл бұрын
So ill, so sad. So brilliant.
@ntandoscrayonbox
10 жыл бұрын
Bill's Chord work was remarkable
@cheri238
Жыл бұрын
Bill Evans last performance, I have not seen this before. His artistry remains forevermore ❤ Marc Johnson, Joe LaBarbera
@denniswong7355
7 жыл бұрын
Hard to believe that this was one of Bill's last performances since i don't hear any impairment in his performances due to his illness so he played up to the very end of his life.
@JamesOKlippel
9 жыл бұрын
the bass player is napoleon dynamite
@bozotheclown935
3 жыл бұрын
BIll E. ....Love him... But tell me as a bassist, why when the bassist solo's does the rest of the friggin group stop playing.. That used to crap me off no end. I never stopped playing when the pianist solo'ed. Oh well... Now I am trying to spend the rest of my life figuring out how this guy played piano. How many lifetimes am I going to need? More than I've got I think. Incredible music...
@mountainashfarmhospitality5156
7 жыл бұрын
Comments are not worthy of this language and heart ...just too COOL. Adore. perfection point and love this still lives to enjoy. Thank-you for sharing this ~
@hermanbrauner1318
7 жыл бұрын
I was at his last performance, but he didn't show up, he passed away the same night, one of my saddest experience ever. My wife and myself were on visit from Europe.
@kidcharlemagne7238
7 жыл бұрын
Wah what a story, he just passed on to another level I guess, God Bless Bill, he was the Guru of Cool and no showbizz nonsense at all.
@robertbrown9382
5 ай бұрын
I was there as well. Joe LaBarbara describes it in his book. I remember the club owner announcing that Bill was sick and that his replacement was a student of Bill “who plays like Bill”. What a disappointment. They should have given us something: drinks, money back, whatever.
@melan-
2 ай бұрын
@@robertbrown9382 a student? ok, how was him? good enough to spend a nice night?
@devingademan
5 жыл бұрын
49:00 Lovely ending on the song “I do it for your love”
@null4624
2 күн бұрын
The Peacocks hits my soul in the spots that cannot heal. I dont care for the tears, it makes me feel alive.. for which i'm grateful. Thanks Bill
@caponsacchi9979
6 ай бұрын
Bill was playing and recording until a week before his death on August 15, 1980. The "proof" is the glorious music collected on 2 CD collections (each with 8 discs) from his stand at San Francisco's "Keystone Korner.." "Consecration" captures all of the 1st sets from those 8 nights, and "Last Waltz" the 2nd sets.
@driggerfireon5760
Жыл бұрын
Can anyone say there are others that sounds like him? Nobody I know. The unique touch of mr bill evans. My piano teachers favorite, thank you jerry Samuel of instilling in my ears the wonder of This great pianist composer.
@tedl7538
11 жыл бұрын
You are SO wrong. The call out to the sound guy is a sincere expression of the frustration so often experienced by talented performers who care deeply about their craft, and are sensitive to anything that alters the work negatively. As a jazz piano player and filmmaker, I know exactly where he's coming from.
@falvegas511
4 ай бұрын
THE True Sound of American Jazz - We Cherish Our Recordings, and do so very much miss Bill. Airwaves are so saturated with Amateur and Rabid Crap these days.
@johnpulham8205
3 жыл бұрын
John Pulham. Can't listen and watch this beautiful outpouring without a tear. Bill Evans so great and lost to us so young. Thanks Bill.
@jzzft11
21 күн бұрын
I went out to hear Bill very soon before he died - i think it was within that week not sure exactly.. He was booked at Fat Tuesday's in New York. We were told at the club that he was ill, couldnt make it. They had Andy Laverne take his place for those who chose to stay. Very shortly after came the news he had died a few days or maybe week or so after - I dont remember exactly. Heard him live quite a few times - it was a remarkable experience. There's an amazing photo of him that hangs on the wall at the Village Vanguard that captures his essence as closely as anything other than his music can
@ELBassodegrande
11 жыл бұрын
Napoleon Dynamite - funny and appropiate. Marc is one of the finest bassist ever.
@normaricci7735
10 жыл бұрын
Non ci sono parole...Soltanto...orecchi...e anima...
@TheSonzwi
11 жыл бұрын
Hi Jeremy, Paul Wittgenstein had no choice, he lost his right arm during WW I, His father ordered at Ravel the left-hand concerto , Paul played it the first time in the USA where he stayed till his dead... I was on September 14th 1980 evening in a jazz club in N.Y. where Bill Evans should have performed, he didn't appeared and passed away during the same night....when I waked up in the morning in my hotel room I heared the bad news on the radio....I was than 45 Years. Zwika, Belgium
@samueljorge6657
3 жыл бұрын
18:50 - 19:10 This is so Beautiful
@paxwallacejazz
4 жыл бұрын
His comment "We'll just weather it through because that's our job" about the boomy bass etc. shows how he's not happy with the performance technical support.
@한현-t8p
9 жыл бұрын
빌 에반스의 컬러 영상을 보는거 만으로도 감동이네...
@福岡徹能
10 жыл бұрын
Bill Evans歌ってますね。さすがの演奏。
@jeuxdeau2009
3 жыл бұрын
16:08 i've never heard this type of voicing from Bill in the left hand comp
@spacemanbose
8 жыл бұрын
listen to his voice. classic Cotton mouth caused from coke, he was so high. by the way, this concert is great, regardless from the bad piano. we love you bill
@sung-kicarty8772
11 жыл бұрын
Actually, the trio came back to NYC, opening a week's engagement at Fat Tuesday's, on Sept 10th. Bill called in sick the next day, and passed on Sept 15th.
@mackdaddy8739
6 жыл бұрын
His hands were swollen even then... Miles produced musical perfection unfortunately most who played with him achieved musical perfection yet also ended up with an life changing condition.
@dvaidr
10 жыл бұрын
I would have loved to been there! Bill Evans! Wow!
@pleximanic
10 жыл бұрын
Bill Guru Evans!
@paxwallacejazz
4 жыл бұрын
I hate that this out of tune upper register unison note was part of Bill's last performance instrument. I feel like he's not digging it just getting in and out of each tune as a result.
@frankdodman8476
10 жыл бұрын
Great music.we need much more of the.
@rockard94
6 ай бұрын
"I'm glad we had a soundcheck" @23:14 . I've heard Bill Evans was a total a**hole, and so it seems... but he was a phenomenal musician nonetheless.
@tomrott5333
7 жыл бұрын
We all love Scott LaFaro. Right. But what a great performance of young Marc Johnson it really is !!!!!!! :) His bass 'talks' !!! :)
@Caleb-zl4wk
10 ай бұрын
Why do we never see people appreciating my man Eddie Gomez? Dude puts out more musical ideas a minute than some saxophonists.
@sulevisydanmaa9981
3 ай бұрын
PROCEED. Nth to c heah. Just a dead jazz legend who lives 4evvuhhh .....
@debussy1100
11 жыл бұрын
spiritual jazz music....... so important for the world today. Better then every therapy
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