Bill Evans most famous performance
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Bill Evans: piano, Larry bunker: drum, Chuck Israels: bass.
This is a live recording of the Bill Evans Trio playing “My Foolish Heart”. I transcribed Bill Evans’ piano solo by ear. This performance was on March 19, 1965 at the BBC studios in London as part of the program Jazz 625.
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Playing the bass part was relatively easy because Bill and Larry didn’t depend on it. Theo time was so good that I could place my rhythms where they were most effective. This is a superb transcription.
Beautiful job @cisraels
You followed beautifully. I don't think many would think it easy.
Wow, I’m honored that you’re here watching this video; Thanks for comment; that’s really interesting.
This performance, particularly your interactions with Bill Evans is what got me into jazz during high school.
Your interactive playing with Bill's is just ...it profoundly resonated with me and still does as I listen again. For what it's worth, I am forever thankful as I wouldn't be where I am today had I never heard this beautiful concert. I've probably heard the whole thing around 150 times if not more. Thank you Chuck Israels
-Recent college graduate
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My teacher keeps harping about my posture at the piano and then I show him a video of Bill Evans staring at his shoes the whole time.😅
Thats too funny 😆
Your teacher would surely loves Glen Gould :D
Your teacher would surely love Glen Gould :D
I bet Bill Evans had really bad back pain...
@@karayuschij He actually really does, a lot. But he'd probably point out that for one, I'm no Glen Gould and two, until I am I should probably shut up, straighten my back, and raise my wrists lol.
Ahhhhh to watch his hands move! Pure piano genius
How does Bill even play the left hand so soothingly soft, but still audible and in sync with the melodic right hand....just amazing
one of the big things young pianists are eventually taught to develop (ideally just a few years into their playing...) is to soften up the accompaniment--which in most cases is the left hand. but the melody should always be ringing clear as a bell, whether it's in just one finger in a dense texture, or say in left hand octaves with chords above. go listen to liebestraum no 3 and be amazed at just how clearly that melody rings out (and how it's phrased) while also being swapped between leaping hands and different fingers.
He can even morph chords out of their own foundations and you think you hearing an F chord, but it doesn't sound like it.. A beautiful Man and creator founding a new way to play Jazz with a new vocabulary of chords.
i watched this video for his left hand Comping
In sync, but amazingly syncopated using "rhythmic displacements" (his term)
also, bill was purportedly left handed; if you watch some of his descriptions of how he developed as a pianist, his development is clear such that his right hand is his studied, technical, "left hand," while anyone who is a right handed pianist will, to really replicate that sort of development, and sort of sound: would have to focus exclusively on their right hand
bill's left hand is good because, ostensibly, he as a left-handed person approaches the piano from a left-handed mindset; never fear, the point then for anyone who understands themselves to be handed, is to approach development and progress, always, always, always, then, from the weak hand: watch some of this stuff too-youtube "Bill Evans on Problems" 3min video, "Bill Evans - The Creative Process and Self Teaching 2" 6min video, and "Bill Evans - The Creative Process and Self-Teaching" 4min video (this third one has bill on the piano showing)
the whole documentary is immensely illuminating for any artist, not just musicians, and including technique development in any field, i.e., especially things like mixed martial arts (my own interests as well)
When I hear Bill play, it feels like the deepest darkest blues. Sad, powerful, heavy.
Sad and beautiful. Bill Evans.
... but so long as your heart beats, walk on my dear musical friends. Your favourite park, the trees, the sky ... or maybe a street, wherever you may be let the soul of Bill Evans guide your feet.
I'm a simple man. I see Bill Evans My Foolish Heart transcription, I buy it. Thank you!
Immer wieder sehr berührend!
Genious! His playing was perfection. I actually got a chance to see him play in a small club. It was like being in another world. God Bless him!
I`m so jealous!
I saw him play at Carnegie one night in the late 70s ! Mary Lou Williams. Larry Corryell and Al dimeola and McCoy tyner all played. Unfortunately I was ignorant of evans playing st the time. I was there for McCoy and Mary Lou Williams. What a dope I was!
Me too. Concerts by the Sea in Redondo Beach, CA, late-'77/early '78, just before he constructed his last trio. Got to enjoy Philly Joe Jones on the drums, too. I don't recall the bassist. Don't think he played with Bill for too long. Talk about an intimate venue. Bill was six feet behind me during intermission, sipping a drink. Unfortunately, I didn't have the courage to introduce myself and thank him for everything he's done for me. Didn't want to invade his privacy.
My kind of piano playing
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Bill Evans, like many artists, struggled through life. Thank the Lord he's forever available to the masses, and may God rest his soul.
"lord" nope, just an imaginary friend that never helps, million+ dead from covid-19, children shot/killed/decapitated (by bullets) at school, religion is poison, bible still promotes slavery
Can’t get enough of Bill Evans
I forgot which album, but I'll never forget Toots Thielemans introducing a Bill Evans song to the live audience. He said something like, "I'm sure all of you, like me, are living under the enchantment of Bill Evans..." (and the crowd erupts in applause). Bill Evans only gets better the more you listen to him, and it's been that way for some 50 years now for me and shows no sign of stopping. When Miles called him a genius at first I didn't quite understand, though I liked him very much. But it soon became apparent, and then undeniable.
His posture had to be the inspiration for how Charles Schultz drew Shroeder.
Schroeder?
@lopezb YES! Got my Peanuts mixed up.
@@bernardwalker1874 :)
Sin ninguna duda bernard, pero falta Snoopy y sus hermanos.
It’s total concentration. He never missed a note. Perfection was what he always strived for.
The performance that made me switch from classic to jazz. This video was the nexus of my jazz origins, thank you for this.
Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky were major influences on evans so that might explain why :)
Classical music sounds like someone has their left hand on the volume knob and their right hand on a tempo knob, and they just keep turning each knob randomly in different directions throughout the entire song.
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@@danmarjenka6361This makes no sense whatsoever.
@@danmarjenka6361Just………………… . .. …….
My favorite part is at 3:49. When he plays Amaj7 - Eb7 - Dmaj7, it feels like he's being naively hopeful. In the next measure he kills that sense of hope. That C#7 into F#7 leaves you awkwardly dejected like you shouldn't have even tried in the first place.
That's an absolutely beautiful comment!
Every performance was famous for him. Genius is an understatement.
Exactly. So many favorites. So many go-to's, pretty much on any BE album. Lately some of my go-to's have been "Lucky to Be Me" on "Everybody Digs" and "I Loves You Porgy" off the 1968 Montreux Jazz Festival LP. The audience was so enraptured during that solo performance you could hear a pin drop. Of course, the '71 "Bill Evans Album," after the opening tune "Funkallero," is non-stop immortal Bill Evans pianism.
how on EARTH does Bill Evans play a full range of unique and rich textures every turnaround but still somehow stay within the changes, evoke melody and movement at the same time? I'm actually frustrated - I've listened to this man for nigh 1.5 decades and he still shocks me with one of the first tunes I ever heard from him (in order from 2009, Nardis, Israel, My Foolish Heart, Peace Piece, My Romance, Waltz for Debby).
Hey have you ever heard: “We will meet again?”
@@TommyPleasure YES. Beautifully haunting tune from a tragic place from a tortured pianist. I love revisiting it but can't revisit it too much!
Yes. not just melody but emotion.
❤Waltz for Debby❤
The finest improvising melodist to have lived , in my view.
Melody sure but the chords WHOA.
Bass interplay is fundamental part of the success of this performance.
thank you
I play this piano solo and it kills tbh
It's the foundation behind it.
Chuck Israels was as key to the trio's sound as Scotty LaFaro was, just in a different way. He's a rather unsung cat!
I'm thankful this found me.
@Michael Solomon: "I transcribed Bill Evans by ear"
Me: "That's frickin' amazing!" as I pack up my piano to donate to charity.
Fantastic video and truly remarkable transcription. Wow.
I'll be a devoted Bill fan till the day I die. When he's touching the keys, he's touching the keys to our soul. So much beauty in his playing. It's fragile, like he was.
The mystery of Bill Evans is that the musical language he speaks makes you forget it has anything to do with a person pressing keys on a keyboard.
@infin touching the keys to our souls...I like this. elymusical
Seeing his hands playing and knowing he was left-handed I was amazed to see he superimposed the left hand over the top of the right hand at one point and had his left fingers play notes among the right hand chords and melody. That to my mind was phenomenal. His musical understandin was absolutely unique. We still miss him hugely 44 years since he left this world.
The great thing about Bill Evans was, you felt as if he was expressing your feelings. No greater complement can be said. He was my first inspiration and that enabled me to become a ballet composer for 6 dance companies in New York City.
His understated touch was simply stunning and amazing!
Thank you Bill for melting away my Sunday stress in less than five minutes ! Rest in peace brother 🙏🏾
Inverting the colors of the sheet music was a very nice touch.
A beautiful song played masterfully.
This made my day
Of the millions of RUclipsrs worldwide, only the elite few in this comment section know this is the video that matters more than any of them.
I don’t know if it was totally accurate but I liked seeing the score at the bottom. I hope aspiring musicians can use it to help them play like Evans.
Incredible. It’s funny how Bill Evans wakes up at the end hearing the audience applaud
Transparant music, not only the notes but also the silences in between, fabulous timing !!!.......💚
My favorite jazz pianist. I love the close and complex chord structuring. The opposite of splashy. He is like Bach in that way.
Right? It's almost all in less than a 2 octave range.
Man I used to listen to this piece when I used to walk to work on cold winter day, unforgettable…
Ive listened to the over and over while drinking early morning coffee when I used to spend a lot of time in Europe.
Dear Michael,
Quite aside from - and, for me, possibly equalling - Bill Evans's mastery, is your own amazing work, not only in transcribing, but also synchronising your score to the audio / video.
No fewer than three comments, therefore, from me: thank you, thank you and … er … (what was the last one?) - oh yes!
Thank you.
Well said.
wonderful to see the transcription of Bill's performance and to follow his playing with the same.....well done!
Everyone please go to Bill Evans The Tokyo Concert and hear him play Morning Glory. How many times can you repeat a simple but beautiful melody and on each repeat make it different while still retaining its essential core. He is the Supreme Master of Improvisation. This version is Incandescent.
The inventor of the pianoforte never imagined his instrument could be played this way. I always wondered what Bach, Mozart, Chopin et al would say if they could have witnessed and heard this.
I don't think Chopin would be too impressed.
@@ezekielbrockmann114exactly. Chopin was already doing these things in his mazurkas lol
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i think they wouldve thought its shit. the impressionists would like it though
Beethoven would probably be impressed considered how he found works of Schubert which were profoundly musical to be divine and he always was trying to break the boundaries of music anyways. I think Bach would like it because of how different the use of harmonies arr from his time and how radical it sounds in comparison. Chopin definitely wouldn't be a fan of this and neither would Liszt be. Now the impressionists would love this stuff though. Ravel, Debussy, Stravinsky, etc would all vibe with this
Why the replies saying Chopin wouldn't be impressed? To me it this song sounds more like Chopin than Bach, Mozart or Beethoven. A very melodic right hand, chord progressions in the left, played with romantic freedom, some stretto and ritardo at the end... all reminiscent of F Chop
I still so vividly remember the first time I heard this piece by Evans. There's just always going to be the 'before' and the 'after' for me and my appreciation of music. Just perfection.
Love My Foolish Heart. Thank you Bill!
Masterful performance from my favorite jazz pianist. Thank you for displaying the transcription...an outstanding way to show Bill's genius! Thank you very much!!!!
His version of My Foolish Heart is both inspiring and the definitive version for the ages.
Thank you Michael for your beautiful transcription of a beautiful song played by a brilliant pianist......One of my favorite songs, by Victor Young....Thank God, these exquisite songs will always be with us and the brilliance of jazz pianists like Bill to play them ....Thank you for this lovely rendition.....
No flash necessary here. Just pure feel. Gorgeous!
Barley possible to thank you enough for this wonderment of a lifetime in Bill's music. The transcription is marvelous.
what a great channel...
Deep, rich and stunningly beautiful. Masterpiece !
By far and away, Bill Evans was such an amazing talent. I have learned so much from this man and his style.
I stumbled onto this video. Had never heard of Bill Evans. Wow. Subtle and smooth. I'm an instant fan. Thanks for uploading this ❤
Thank you so much Michael, with the transcription I understand Bill’s music even better.
Absolutely sublime. Thank you for posting.
thank you for doing this - a joy to watch and hear
I love his playing so much--never too much; just enough. My favorite is "A Child Is Born".
I have this recording and never get tired of hearing it.
Sublime. I enjoyed watching the notation also.
Poignant, melancholy, hopeful ... Brilliant!
Since I discovered Bill Evans music, I just love it as it is my favorite.
This is just so lovely!
I cannot read music but the chart along with the music makes perfect sense to me. Bill Evans was a genius. RIP Bill Evans 🙏🏖🎵
Immediately bought the transcription! Thank you!
one of the most shockingly beautiful performances i’ve ever heard
❤merci pour cette vidéo !
Il est vraiment magistral,un monstre du jazz 😢
I find this too beautiful, leaves me feeling melancholy yet deeply in touch with myself.
Thank you. Bill Evans always picks me up.
Truly beautiful! So glad to see this!
SOME AMERICAN MUSICIANS SHOULD HAVE, LIVED FOREVER!!! CORE AMERICA DOES SO MISS, BILL.
A master on several fronts: Sheer genius at making lyrical, melodic lines across complex chord progressions, and of course his tasteful voicings.
ive always loved how at the end of this video larry bunker just watches bill evans when he increases the tempo and closes out the song. how could you not just watch in awe. had to be hard to not get imposters syndrome playing with someone like bill.
This guy has just made it onto my list of favorite musician performers❤
I am glad this recording exists. Thank you for posting.
When they say they don't make music like they used to... this.
Classics and timeless
Thanks for the score!
Thanks Bill. Hope to hear You and Ellis in the next Life too.!
Beautifully done. He was a genius.
Que gran manejo de la polirritmia entre ambas manos.
...thank you for posting this...
Complex, beautiful, smooth! Bill, wherever you are now, may God bless you! 🙏
My foolish heart and I am in heaven with him, for just a moment. A genious.
Wow!
Is that really you here? I am totally in awe...words have officially failed me.
Una locura, gracias por la transcripción, el vídeo es oro puro.
Wow, thanks really great production with the sheet music following underneath amazing multimedia artist, musician and transcriber you are and I just bought it. Keep it up. 🎹
Michael, thank you so much for sharing!
🙏❤🌹 Bill & Larry 🌹❤🙏
One of my favorite jazz pianists.. Just realized he had NBA hands on the piano. No wonder he made it look so easy...
Miles once commented on the stregnth of subtlety. B.E.'s playing portrays that so well.
By ear! Superb!
a master at work
Bello questo video 👍❤️
that timing/feeling is amazing.
yet again, seeing this and reading the transcription, really brings me to the conclusion that we learn music all wrong... usually you still learn music the classic, the old fashion ways, where you simply play from the sheet and with those fixed note positions and very strict rules. when really we should learn more intuitively, in intervals and from feeling. because since we don't really play in big orchestras anymore, that almost military approach is no longer necessary and honestly: its taken me until now to overcome that, when it comes to playing jazz. its blocking me more then its helping, when actually composing or improvising on the spot.
You’re right; but the transcription is helpful to see what he’s playing. Then you can make it your own; especially if there are parts you really like, then you can learn that and incorporate it in your own playing; but memorizing the entire solo verbatim is probably not the best way to learn improv.
@@michael-solomon oh, don't get me wrong, the transcript is great. its only that I hear solos like that in my head. but can't play them, because I don't have the ability yet to transport what I already hear and feel onto the instrument. I however can play the transcript... point being: the missing for my own expression, is what I was talking about :)
I think Bill was a classical player first..
@@halcyonacoustic7366 possibly... I'm not saying you couldn't get there the usual way and through hard work... I'm saying that hard work could be slightly simplified by approaching it differently from the start^^
I just love his chord choices.
I slurped noodles by the window of Mister Henry's on consecutive weeks with Bill Evans and Thelonious Monk, in about 1966. Both were playing the Brass Rail -- back in the Silurian Age, when Downbeat had a Toronto edition!
Congrats, very very good work👏👏
Fabulous!!!
Magnificent
Mesmerising❤
It's magical, it's like falling in love instantly and dreaming of a different life with an unknown person
Unimaginably Sad when Bill was Gone. Have some of his CD's which I play often. hasn't been another ERvans HOWEVER,, DIANA KRALL has filled a lot of that missing Bill Evans Space.
Played the treble clef notes, those that aren't chords, obviously, on my tenor sax. Beautiful.🎶🎶🎶🎵🎶🎷👍
Good music never cease to be. Evans is probably the most introspective jazz pianist (or maybe Jarret).
Absolutely beyond rediculous. He was the pinnacle.
Bill Evan’s Trio for Life. 🧎🏻
This might be my favorite Bill. All heart. Transcription seems really good.
Excellent ! 🌷