Bill Evans "Peace Piece"
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2011
- Virtual Museum Exhibit: Pasos Peace Museum (visit: www. pasospeacemuseum.org)-Bill Evans's "Peace Piece" is an unrehearsed modal composition that he recorded for his "Everybody Digs Bill Evans" LP in 1958. It is hailed as one of the most beautiful and evocative solo piano improvisations ever recorded.
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One day I went on google to know the difference between the pronounciation of "piece" and "peace", so I googled "piece peace".
That day I found jazz.
What a great story!
There are no coincidences in life ... Peace
@@tospubs960 life must just be whoopin some peoples ass out of spite then lmfao
WOW......Nice Find
No sir, Jazz found YOU!
Music is not only the notes, but also the silence in between.
Steve Garcia wow i didnt realized that until now ty
@Danilo Arsoski cross handed technique. Tony Banks the keyboardist for the progressive rock band Genesis utilized this on their songs at the beginning of Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, Carpet Carpet Crawlers, No Reply at All. Debussy and the French composers were great.
The subtle pause...
Comme vous avez raison... Tout est dans l'intervalle... Dans le silence qui, comme un pont, relie une note à une autre. Cette musique - qui ressemble un peu à celle de Satie - est une merveille.
@@lilianeguisset3788 parfaitement saisi !
I requested this song to be played at the close of my dads funeral service yesterday. RIP dad 92 years old a life well lived.
condolences from the uk(london)
Jesus buddy damn near made me cry
Sorry for your loss ~ glad your Dad had a long life 🏵️
💙🙏🩶
You have Soul. Thanks I didn't know anyone who felt like it. So something.,🎼
The story behind this is Bill walked into the studio, played this on the first take, got up and left. Why mess with perfection? Ever time I hear this tears roll down my cheeks. It's just that beautiful.
I concur. I can't stop them from wheeling up in my eyes and just rolling on down my cheeks. I do this every time I hear a masterpiece, which isn't very often these days. This is certainly a piece of heaven. Thank thank God for Bill Evans and Claude Debussy and the Queen, Joni Mitchell.
@@marcibolton5718 amen!!
So, I am not the only one. These notes do something to my brain and my soul in addition of the memories that bring back.
I totally agree. This song truly does something to my soul. It's like spiritual food.
Every*
This piece of music actually defines the word 'transcendental' for me. Mellow. Nostalgic. Lyrical. Emotive. Melancholy. Optimistic. It really is something quite special. As others have said, it's about the space between the phrasing, those harmonics. To know Bill Evans' music is a privilege, and a joy.
yawn!
My dad took me to see Bill who was playing with his trio back in the late 70s. I was a kid but I still clearly remember the joy I felt while listening to such transcendental music. Nothing but love for Bill Evans. Thanks Dad (lost him in 2005), thanks Bill.
Wow.
Wherever you are now. Thank you for sharing this special memory with your dad. Wishing you well.
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@@mikehollingworth2262 Are you calling me a liar?
My Dad recommended this to me as a “real chill out” when I was a bit low. What a great man. :)
my dad convinced me to take piano and after a few years she taught me Satie. Sometimes dads can be alright *for being a classical dad, it's a shame i haven't sat down and rocked out to the passion of st john with him yet
A very smart man he was....
Then you must listen to (J. Ralph the crawl)Another beautiful work of art like this tune
I like your Dad!
@@michaelmcgilvary8908I'm going to have a listen. Thank you!
I always appreciate a good musical referral/recommendation!
My wife and I used this song as part of our wedding many years ago. This weekend, we are using it again at her mother's funeral. Beautiful music, every note.
So very sorry for your loss. It is beautiful, indeed. 🥀
Touch grass bro@gregnormal5
❤
I will never forget the moment when I crossed the Manhattan Bridge for the first time to the sound of music by Bill Evans. I saw the skyscrappers surrounded by large, gray, sheep-like clouds, letting orange rays of summer twilight filter through. This is how I define the music of Bill Evans. A masterpiece, yes a masterpiece.
You are a poet.
Wow that was definitely a NYC moment! Do you remember what tune it was?
Loved your words! Especially having lived in NYC! Bill Evans - the crème de la crème of Jazz pianists!!
Anyone who understands New York City understands Bill Evans
I can picture it....beautiful!!
I just cried, and I don't even really know what for. It was nice, haha. It's crazy that a man I've never met and have never known, from a time years before I was ever born, wrote a simple piano song that would touch me and millions like me. This was beautiful.
I hope someday my sons and daughter will hear this and think , " Shit could be worse, I could have lived in a world without this."
It makes me cry it's so beautiful
The consistency of the left hand, even through the discordant chaos of the right hand reminds me to be my self, even when outside forces try to draw me in other directions. Stay true to yourself. Be that consistent left hand.
thank you for this comment
be and love both hands
You will go where you have to go. You will see what needs to be seen. And you will hear things occasionally that make you feel glad to be alive and wonder at the beauty of being a human. This is one of those moments that vibrates through all the walls of time. Share the way this makes you feel with the ones you love. May every word you use be like a note that's played as in this song.
Beautiful. And yes.
❤
*morgan freeman voice*
woah
excellent choice of words
The most beautiful things in life don't overwhelm you, they're not obnoxious, they don't ask for attention. This song is truly beautiful; it gently rolls with the ebb and flow of life. I feel more and more in tune with life as it plays.
That's very nicely put. I won't even attempt to do it better !
You can’t talk about great jazz pianists without mentioning Bill Evans.
The first time I heard this, I thought was a simple, beautiful tune. Later I found out this was an adlib done off the cuff.
@@darrynlamonteastrology I love this. Finding your old comment a year later.
Miles loved him.
I read his biography, he was a man in love with the note and how sound can be derived
@@darrynlamonteastrologyI fully agree. There were some small minded critics who claimed Bill was an inferior jazz pianist because he supposedly couldn’t play blues. Let the critics carp. Miles saw it differently. Bill achieved his own unique voice and took the music in new directions. God knows, he will never be imitated. Who could replicate those chord voicings?
Sometimes you're lucky enough to stumble upon a song like this.
I want this at my funeral, and my wedding, and everywhere forever
John Bensinger
John Bensinger
JOHN BENSINGER
John. Ben. Sing. Er.
John Ben - singer
oh dear...I heard this beauty for the first time today. I stopped working in the office and turned up the radio. It´s so beautyful..even the other people in the office stopped working and without saying anything we just listened. What a gift mankind got there. Thank you.
So smooth, like smoking in the late night, when no one's is around.
Minimalism in jazz is underrated! Bill Evans is the perfect example of that style, here in a piece where the notes dont get too close to one another.
When I met the love of my life, this song was playing in the distance. It's beautiful in this recording, but it will never sound more beautiful than it did those years ago... Still can't hear it without giving a tearful word of thanks to God above... thanks to have been given what so many search for throughout their entire lives. Thank you, Bill Evans.
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If there was ever a year we needed a peace piece, 2020 would be the year.
It's my WhatsApp gift for Christmas!!
Indeed! This piece is like
2020 - Beautiful, Turbulent....-2021. 💜🎶
ohellzyeah
yeah not during the holocaust or vietnam war or anything gay like that
1944 disagrees you twat
Euphoria! That ending was tragic. Also Bill Evans is the goat
It does indeed echo peace.
Thank you, thank you Bill Evans for reminding me that beauty still exists in the world.
This is a testament to Bill's love of his instrument. This is by, of, and for the piano.
That beard is beauty
This is the absolute masterpiece. Those notes can heal and physically affect. It feels like you went through many difficulties through decades, maybe lost everything, got beaten and broken but finally reached peace. And you are ready for the next chapter of your life. You are the new person. It is very gentle but there is much more in those pauses. It is melancholic but positive and peaceful at the same time.
It really is.
so well put in words
I think sublime would be a good description
...or the acceptance before leaving.
Tão bonito e inspirado que cura nossas feridas e restaura a nossa vontade de viver e ser melhor como pessoa
My husband died about 6 years ago and would listen to this song over and over😢😢. Beautiful song❤❤
I am sorry for your husband. Somewhere in the sky or may be close to you, his soul can listen to this music. Be quiet, be love for your family !
@@josianesouchon1646oh stop it. No one cares about your childish nonsense. This is JAZZ, not your church.
This feels more like a brotherhood and sisterhood than a comment section.
Estaba durmiendo cuando oí esto y me desperté llorando.. . Tuve la suerte de que en la radio dieron a conocer en ese momento el título de composición
It is quite astounding how such a simplistic piece can be so unbelievably intoxicating and utterly peaceful...
If there is a more beautiful piece of music I don't know what it is and I have been listening to music for over 60 years
I’ve listened to plenty of pieces but I’d have to say this has to be one of the most beautiful songs in existence. Bill is speaking to us through his piano which I feel portrays sadness paired with the feeling that everything will be alright. My mind has been extremely busy lately, and very few pieces can quiet my mind like this does. Absolutely brilliant. May Will rest in piece knowing that this song has blessed millions of people.
I'm here after finding out John Mayer listens to Bill Evans all the time, and man am I glad I'm here.
A piece so beautiful it can disassemble you and put you all back together at the same time.
I've commented on this before but, this is just THE most stunning, wonderful piece of piano playing you will EVER let your ears listen to. Sheer perfection.
One of the prettiest piano pieces one could ever hear. Snowing, wood stove going and the beauty of Bill Evans piano !
This sounds so good with the sound of rain outside.
The most touching thing ever heard. His music has its own soul. We are all blessed to feel it and to see through it.
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This is the most beautiful piece ever written since the classical pianists It just touches everything that is good & peaceful
I remember really hearing this late one night almost 40 years ago. I was returning from Yellow Springs, OH to Xenia, OH along a stretch of road that was nearly deserted. I watched as the headlights cut a path of light through the enveloping darkness and then suddenly, I heard it. I played it again and I wept. Two times, three times and then I lost count. But I was overwhelmed with unutterable joy to hear this spare, lone voice with its ringing insinuation of atonality. I was and I am even now torn down and lifted up all at once.
I hear Flamenco Sketches too but I also hear Some Other Time.
Beautiful, thanks
Beautiful. Quiet spaces and lifts up and up buoying us in the sea of calm.
What a beautiful reflection Edward. Thank you... Sometimes we just weep and the weeping is good.
Yes, I hear Bill Evans clearly in Flamenco Sketches. Incomparable. He speaks to my introvert soul.
Inside this bubble of sound I am safe. Just me and Bill. Thanks man!
LOVE is a emotion that can make you to break you an to make better of you again, for this is why we LIVE to LOVE.
Bill Evans produced some of the most beautiful music ever created by man...this may be the best example.
yes
The music is the sound between the notes. I don't recall who said that, but this piece proves it.
Tom Connell I think that was Debussy
Yuusssss :)
This and the last bars of his Bernstein cover Lucky to be me....
When my two-year-old son first heard this, he abandoned his beloved cars, sat on the couch silent for 6 minutes and 45 seconds with his mouth gaped open.
This is so beautiful the first time I heard it, it felt almost disrespectful to do anything else but sit and listen. Touches the very soul of a person, absolutely stunning.
Nice comment! I think very young children has an intuitive feeling for great music, long before they can express it in words. But then when they grow older this intuition somewhat disappears, other things will take more place.
@@staffanolofsson8201 i'm still a child of 71...!!!
@@moniquecavard745 Love you! And I am a child of 75...
Your story made me cry...such a wonderful thing to touch a child in such a moving way.
His notes, phrases move like a gentle gust of wind, a soft breeze that lingers. The silence between.
This was the first song I ever heard of Bill Evans. The definition of class. He leaves just enough space between the music to allow the listeners thoughts and memories to be their own... Allowing them to feel personally and organically connected to the music... While bringing it back so perfectly to keep the listener engaged mentally without getting lost in their own emotions or overbearing avant-garde nonsense
My ex wife said to me this was the most depressing piece!
That's why she is my ex.
This piece is living and breathing. Sounds like love!
🤣👍😁😊🤍
Idiot
🤣 isn't that the way it seems?
smart move
It's not depressing, it's deliciously melancholic. That's quite a difference.
Found this piece at the beginning of the pandemic. An unexpected gift. I would close my eyes and listen. Made it all go away if even for a few minutes. Makes me cry now when I listen. 😢
I’m glad I randomly went here and heard this. It’s nice
Even frivolity can lead to beauty every now and then !
Garrett Watts sent me here :) thank you for this music takes you to a place where you never want to escape, and that's serenity.
Same here. I was hoping to find this comment😭. Such raw and peaceful energy in this melody
Same :)
Same
same 🖤
Same💕
I once asked everyone I know:” If you could be in front of the whole humanity, all 7 billion, and language and focus wouldn’t been an issue, what would you say to the whole of humanity to reassure that the next day we would achieve peace?
Some said they would cry, some would tell a joke, one of my favourite responses was to sing a beatles song, but now I am absolutely sure...this song, this wonderful expression of peace, this is the answer to my question.
This isn't sad or boring. It's beautiful, interesting, and haunting. From another world. Thank you so much for exposing me to this ineffable . . . piece.
Such a beautiful piece. It is no mystery why he was MIles Davis' (a genius of space in his own right) favorite Pianist.
Years ago, I played this piece at the funeral of the son of friends. I am also a bereaved parent. Currently writing my dissertation on the marriages/relationships of bereaved parent couples, I find myself turning to this piece again and again for company. Thank you for having posted it on youtube for all to share. So deep.
It's a beautiful piece and I listen to it every time I need Peace.
May peace be with you... Thank you for sharing
peace
I know of a woman who has had her parental rights terminated for her US born son. Residing permanently out of the country, she wanted him to come to the USA to attend school and the state nabbed him. She hasn't seen or hugged him in nearly two years, his birthday just a couple of weeks away. Perhaps it's something related somehow to your bereavement, and may come up in your dissertation. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. It helps me deal with this. Playing piano definitely aids with my coping, as well as eating well, exercise. The pain from these emotional upheavals unravels any hope for a normal day of enjoying life. How can one do this when the ones that they love aren't "allowed" to? How I wish I'd had kids. I missed a great experience in this life. But geesh, this world and what's coming....
sending peace and love your way
I hope you find the peace joy and love within your heart..it is there, smile to your heart and follow those sweet gentle feelings..best wishes :)
this melody is incredible
i recognized instantly when it played on euphoria ending scene, had to come here and listen to the whole song
Its like musical medicine
I am about to perform this in Chicago, at my first recital in 57 years. I have worked on this piece and will never consider it truly mastered. I will continue to work on it long after this performance. It is inside me.
Good luck Betsy! You are Betsy not Bill.
Wishing you love
Ive been learning it on acoustic guitar
@@daniel.gobert9880 Wow!
How did it turn out?
It was Bill's sense of space that attracted Miles- the perfect pianist for Kind Of Blue. They have many similarities, especially when you listen to them solo.
Kind of Bill
Yeah, now I want to go to the record store for some Miles.
Bill Evans left this world way too soon.
4:07 - 4:14 is so beautiful, the way he resolves the dissonant notes with that gorgeous chord is really just immaculate
This song always makes me smile and brings a tear to my eye, all at the same time. No matter what I am doing, I have to stop and pay attention to the music. It does something to me, something good. I love jazz and I love Bill Evans but this, this is something else I cannot define. I don't want this song played during my funeral, I would like to listen to it when the moment of my exit of this world comes. Pure beauty.
Just pure beauty. Heard this for the first time the other day and had to pull over in the car.
+Alan Cohen, I've had those moments.
Ooooh, yes. Bill Evans made me pull over the car many, many times.
you might like Chopin's Berceuse as well...
Same thing happened to me when I heard SRV's Lenny on the radio for the first time. Love those moments.
I completely identify with this statement.
3.5 million views! That gives me faith in humanity! We’re going to be just fine. It’ll just take a little while.
This gives me a little piece of peace
agree very ! "human circus" was in DIRE NEED to be slowed down .. Peace
the future is bright, remain positive and adaptable to change. Good things are ahead for many this year, many that deserve it, people like me, you and your friends. best wishes to David T and Chris G in Victoria Australia and their family-friends..
Haha
Well, actually it are only 3500 people who came to listen 1000 times to the same peace piece... So, sorry for that faith in humanity....
As well as it reminds me Satie, it also brings Chopin's Berceuse to my mind. What a hauntingly beauty
Yeah, the raindrop prelude, chopin
wherever you are, bill evans, i bet you're in time and i bet you're in balance
Satie smiles
i love these two words together
Not Satie, but Chopin (Berceuse Op.57)...
Hearing the first two or three bars, Eric Satie comes to mind. Certainly Satie must have been a strong influence on Bill evens who takes Satie further to where we can almost disappear into the music.
Debussy
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I am in tears. When Peace Piece plays on my playlist, there's a natural stop in whatever I am doing. I am utterly present. To learn this piece was improvised leaves me gutted. What was he thinking about? Was he thinking at all? The result is nothing short of a masterpiece.
He is not thinking at all...
Wow I did not know this was improvised. Bill Evans unfortunately had a lot of sadness in his life and it is portrayed through the sounds of his music.
when I first heard I had just parked..was sitting when it came on WBGO I felt the smooth, soft yet intense..bought me to tears..love it
Bill said in interviews that jazz is so beautiful because it's something you cannot describe that just flows through you, otherworldly, when you are improvising. He mentions that it's a mixture of knowing how to play the instrument, but then just letting it flow through him. Awesome.
"I am utterly present". Beautifully said, I completely agree.
I was riding a city bus in San Antonio one afternoon. Sitting in the front, where the seats face each other. Three people across from me were talking about how at a certain time of the day, in certain seasons, the east-west streets in Manhattan light up gloriously as the sun (directly west) drops down in the sky. I thought this a celestial moment: three poetic souls talking about beauty, not about how Texas is the greatest place in the whole world.
This beautiful piece never gets old. So simple… yet so complicated. What a genius!
"Do not go where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path
and leave a trail."
The opening photograph was taken by my uncle Freddy Warren it was taken in Ronnie Scotts in London's west end Freddy was one of the in house photographers at Ronnie's for many years
Awesome, he inmortalized the artist.
Great shot
It's a wonderful photograph, are there others from the roll?
Nice story, fantastic shot.
great pic!
Looking at the 530 dislikes on this video. I feel so bad for those 530 individuals. The thought that they couldn’t feel the beauty in this song is heart breaking. May you all find a Piece of Peace…Peace Piece. ❤️
Well. Kevin E. I guess you have to forget their ignorance towards real decent music. They will never know real music.
Just being abstinent
Some people have to have real art fed to them with an eye dropper.
@@DanBoyd1111 Lol
Millennials
This songs takes me to places in my imagination that I never want to leave, what a powerful yet beautiful song. Forever one of my favourites
No sé cómo explicarlo pero muy en el fondo sé que esta canción guarda un mensaje trascendente. Hay algo misterioso e importante oculto entre estas notas y esta cadencia tan melancólica y delicada. Es la misma sensación que uno siente cuando mira el mar o las montañas de cimas nubladas: "ven, aquí hay algo para ti".
Que felicidad leer los comentarios y saber que muchas personas a lo largo del mundo sienten algo similar. Ojalá la vida nos alcance para descifrarlo!
Прекрасные ассоциации. Спасибо за комментарий.
Mucho Gracias...
Gives me chills every time. I hear his soul speaking in this song -- the longing, the beauty, the poignancy of his life.
I came across Bill Evans in a music documentary yesterday and I can't believe I've only just heard of him. So glad though. This is just transcendental! Thank you so much W R for making this available.
Since art is infinite we can't come across all of it at an early age. I'm glad you came across this. Isn't it fantastic when you think you've heard or seen it all and find out that not only is there still a great deal to see and hear, but that what is left to see and hear is spectacular?
@@douglashott9843 Absolutely Douglas. I keep discovering the new from the old and am always delighted by the feeling that a switch in my mind has been flipped on!
I also just ran onto Bill Evans yesterday. I also agree with the other comment by Doug that it is cool that you can still keep running onto new and different things and they are spectacular.
Whoever gave a thumbs down to this has no soul.♥️🙏. This is breathtaking...exquisite playing and a timeless composition. An intellectual man who gave his heart through a wonderful talent. This music will never die. I know he had his troubles but man he gave everything he had. Thank you Bill Evans. R.I.P Bill Evans.x
My go-to song when I need to calm my brain. Thank you, Bill Evans. Excuse my platitude, but what a gift music can be. Pure aural Valium.
I heard this and thought to myself, I think this is the only song I ever want to hear again .....
this hit so different at the end of that episode of euphoria
Overwhelmingly...exquisite. September 13th...forever.
Peace is an ever-present constant, no matter what else is happening. It is steadily there and it seems Bill is exploring and demonstrating no matter if you stretch things this way or that the peace is constantly present is we just notice it.
That's a wonderful way of putting it. Thank you.
Heard this on Scala radio yesterday. I hadn't heard of Bill Evans before but now I have. I love all kinds of music but this knocked my soul sideways when I heard it. It is what makes music so very special. You may be long dead but bless you Bill.
A Pure Drop In An Ocean Of Noise
Jazz meets contemplation.
This is the first time I’ve heard it but it has soothed my anxiety in the world.
He's so gentle with the piano
I really feel peace in this piece of music!!
What a beautiful thing a man can do by playing the piano. Fresh air and welling springs are all there.
What a masterpiece! Music can´t get any better! ❤
Very sad to see though, that we ignorant people on this planet do not manage to make it any better place.
2023 and peace is only available in pieces. You can hear the shards in this song, too. Sublime.
hypnotic peace..in one piece
Yes, very hypnotic.
This song can literally bring me to tears... Absolutely love this song. A masterpiece.. R.i.p. Bill I love you man
you can't rehearse feelings...you live them! (Thank you Bill for expressing yourself)
Ogni giorno, ogni istante penso a mio padre. Ci ha lasciati un anno fa, ma non riesco a piangere perché mi sussurra spesso le sue battute ironiche e irriverenti. Purtroppo ha sofferto tanto e avrei voluto farmi carico di un po' di quella sofferenza.
I feel this song in every piece of my body
One of the greatest jazzmusicians ever!
The atonal section in the middle is so breathtakingly brilliant, and the slow resolution back to tonality is just gorgeous.
That's why jazz is so beautiful, knowing the rules and then breaking them
That's the best Pianist in such tranquil and beautiful world. Peace and neat ...that I enjoy the most.
there is nothing in the world like this piece: the notes, the silence itself echoing on, the feeling it brings out. what a piece
Deeply sentimental and wise...
I've always loved this. Bury me to this tune.
I played this for my dog of 13 years as she silently passed. I think it helped us both. Any one of the 561 haters want to come forward and say why?
Making me cry. RIP
Holy shit this is incredible, it feels like the left and right halves of his mind are both completely at ease at the same time on the keyboard