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.
I'm a simple man. I see Bill Evans My Foolish Heart transcription, I buy it. Thank you!
Immer wieder sehr berührend!
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.
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.
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.
When I hear Bill play, it feels like the deepest darkest blues. Sad, powerful, heavy.
The finest improvising melodist to have lived , in my view.
Melody sure but the chords WHOA.
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.
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. No thanks.
@@danmarjenka6361 ☠️☠️☠️
@@danmarjenka6361This makes no sense whatsoever.
@@danmarjenka6361Just………………… . .. …….
I made this comment for his Peace Piece, but I think it's worth repeating. My father was a Navy musician when Bill Evans was in the Army: Bill was playing at a concert with a jazz orchestra. My father said he played an 8-bar solo and got a standing ovation.
Wow great story; thanks for sharing!
@@michael-solomon thank you for sharing these unbelievable 🙏 musical treasures ... truly a treasure trove....
Thank you
I love music, but don't understand a lot of the terminology. What does an 8-bar mean?
@bernardwalker1874 I'm not a musician or player either but I believe it means eight measures.
Every performance was famous for him. Genius is an understatement.
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?”
@@user-vf5bv6vo4b 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❤
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
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.
When they say they don't make music like they used to... this.
My favorite jazz pianist. I love the close and complex chord structuring. The opposite of splashy. He is like Bach in that way.
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
Incredible. It’s funny how Bill Evans wakes up at the end hearing the audience applaud
I love his playing so much--never too much; just enough. My favorite is "A Child Is Born".
No flash necessary here. Just pure feel. Gorgeous!
Is that really you here? I am totally in awe...words have officially failed me.
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!!!!
By far and away, Bill Evans was such an amazing talent. I have learned so much from this man and his style.
Since I discovered Bill Evans music, I just love it as it is my favorite.
Barley possible to thank you enough for this wonderment of a lifetime in Bill's music. The transcription is marvelous.
a master at work
Beautifully done. He was a genius.
This guy has just made it onto my list of favorite musician performers❤
When your jazz is so classic it sounds hip hop
Bill Evan’s Trio for Life. 🧎🏻
Thank you so much Michael, with the transcription I understand Bill’s music even better.
I find this too beautiful, leaves me feeling melancholy yet deeply in touch with myself.
Thanks for the score!
Good job, Bill
one of the most shockingly beautiful performances i’ve ever heard
Que gran manejo de la polirritmia entre ambas manos.
fantastic!
Una locura, gracias por la transcripción, el vídeo es oro puro.
Absolutely sublime. Thank you for posting.
Immediately bought the transcription! Thank you!
Great transcription!
Sweet vibe
I am glad this recording exists. Thank you for posting.
look that direction from the camera!! im dreaming now!
Excellent work!
Michael, thank you so much for sharing!
🙏❤🌹 Bill & Larry 🌹❤🙏
Awesome!!
Truly beautiful! So glad to see this!
Beautiful 😢
Incredible work.
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. 🎹
That was SO moving!
Thank You 🙏 ❤️
stunning
Excellent ! 🌷
SOME AMERICAN MUSICIANS SHOULD HAVE, LIVED FOREVER!!! CORE AMERICA DOES SO MISS, BILL.
Classics and timeless
So cool with the notes running underneath. Amazing to me that you can do that. Enlightens the music, really. THanks :-)
Exquisite.
What a nice piece.
Soothing and loverly
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.
A genius ...
Great!
Amazing ❤
Great transcript!
Superb ❤
He plays right out of his head with immense concentration - wow
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.
se rinde ante el piano, majestic
Nice. Thanks
Beautiful
Anything that Bill Evans plays is a phenomenon. Why you would say that this is his "most famous performance" is baffling. He's a musician's musician.
Agreed; I personally feel that there is no such Bill Evans performance that can be labelled by anyone to be his most famous performance!
@@MarkRaymondLuce Righto
This might be my favorite Bill. All heart. Transcription seems really good.
How beautiful My Foolish Heart
YES.....!
A master on several fronts: Sheer genius at making lyrical, melodic lines across complex chord progressions, and of course his tasteful voicings.
Bell Evans forever !
The drummer’s so good
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^^
A major. Really nice.
The second trio in London doing a BBC session in front of a live audience (1965 I think). The session was edited into two episodes of a TV programme called Jazz 625. Both are available on DVD. The series as a whole is well worth checking out - they also featured Peterson, Monk, Dizzy, the MJQ, Blakey and the Messengers, Wayne Shorter and many others, including some Brits. Back in the day, the acts generally scheduled these studio sessions with residencies at Ronnie Scott's.
Evans popularised this tune in A with his trios but later did it with Tony Bennett in Bb and that might be why it got Real Booked into the repertoire in that key. Interesting how many Real Book tunes are in "Sinatra keys" presumably for a similar reason. Or perhaps just to be friendlier to sax players...
Wow.
Oh that walk down to D7 …..❤
Wtf, amazing what he did on bar 9, is lovely!
Watching this now wearing my T-shirt with a Bill Evans Portrait in Jazz album cover print
Superbe la rythmique éxecutée parfaitement 🎶🎵🎶🎵♥️
Played the treble clef notes, those that aren't chords, obviously, on my tenor sax. Beautiful.🎶🎶🎶🎵🎶🎷👍
Bill Evans with Chuck Israels, bass; Larry Bunker, drums.
Thank you for that.
Again, a once in a lifetime talent destroyed by drugs.
Oh shit I may have heard this song in the grand mafia game. Damn bro...good and peaceful times...
If Bill were alive today would the reality be for him that he would have to work a day job to survive? Thanks for this great video and so great to see the sheet music as he plays!
Entirely sublime! For me the added score was a distraction, but no matter. Thank-you!
The king of elegance. Bill Evans.
Good to hear his subtlety captured...inspired by...STEINWAY & SONS...😅
First of all, I adore Bill Evans playing, and watching any video of him playing is an exceptional treat.
And secondly, I read along with your transcript twice, mainly to double check those 16th note and 8th note triplets and the chords, you have an excellent ear, looks to me that you nailed it. I'm curious to know how many listens it took you to match the notation with the audio?
Took me hours to transcribe it, which I did gradually; then I went back through it several times to catch mistakes.
@@michael-solomon Thanks for the reply!
Wearing a suit, clean cut, professional...let's get back to that.
yeeey
woooo