Bill Evans - Portrait in Jazz (1960 Album)
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- Portrait in Jazz is an album by American jazz pianist Bill Evans, released in 1960. Personnel: Bill Evans (p) Scott LaFaro (b) Paul Motian (dr) Released: 1960 .
Portrait in Jazz is an album by American jazz pianist Bill Evans, released in 1960. Personnel: Bill Evans (p) Scott LaFaro (b) Paul Motian (dr) Released: 1960 .
Bill Evans - Sunday at the Village Vanguard Released 2014-06-06 on Not Now Music Buy this album: 1. 00:00:00 Bill .
Bill Evans Trio with Symphony Orchestra is an album by American jazz pianist Bill Evans and his Trio, released in 1966. The Bill Evans Trio is accompanied by a .
All this music, an album 62 years old, shared with the world on a video website. What a time to be alive for people looking for music.
Amen!
I often wonder, if in 100 years 20th century music will still be played. Imagine some kid discovering jazz or rock and roll or country western and what sort of journey they could take - your favorite artist, one you followed in real time, maybe 50 years and there it is, in an afternoon your entire musical journey - I wish I could meet that kid, heck, I wish I could be that kid
@@AldousHuxleysCat we are being that kid today! Got to know so much music from before I was born thanks to Internet
I'm like less than half of that old and kind of impressed by how long this is, two hours? whoa
It's great for old musical, electro-mechanical people like me, we even didn't dream anything like this fifty years ago when the radio was the best source of diverse music. I believe they will still explore the analogue realm of hi-fi sound reproduction beyond our imagination in fifty years time. Peace.. ✌
Glenn Gould admired Bill Evans. Bill Evans admired Glenn Gould. What else is there to say? Bellissimo.
Bill Evans and his contemporaries had the sickest era in jazz.
1:38 "Once is a mistake, twice is jazz"
I had such a good laugh! Thanks!
Awesome
very nice catch
Didn't sound like a mistake to me.
@@TheRoiderien thats his point ;)
I stopped by, and I just can say this is the type of music you appreciate your life for. Thanks, RUclips algorithm.
it's my first time listening to this artist, I'm shocked I've never heard of him. I'm blown. CLEAN!!!!
Isn't he great? I listen to him often. He plays on Kind of Blue.
If You like him, please check the video called "Bill Evans Trio - Emily (Helsinki 1969)".
@@billzander2875 TOO GREAT!!!!
@@Zeitgeist64 will do, thanks.
@@juliankoboekae5031 Or, Bill Evans Live at Molde Jazz Festival 1980.
Bill Evans is fantastic but I can't believe all the non-comments about the bass player and drummer. This soup has the perfect recipe. I love every bit of it and this is my favorite style of drumming. It keeps me in my "happy place".
Now, living day in day out in pure postmodernism, we have to state that these idiotic drums on their own selves eradicated the whole harmony and melody up to zero... I hate postmodernism and hence the drums...
@@qwertasdfg8828 what are you on lmao
@@qwertasdfg8828 what are you baffling about
The Ultimate Jazz Pianist. Not a single note out of place . Swings with such ease and clarity. A true legend!
Mr. Evans is a great Pianist I agree ; I Disagree with your statement; Thelonious Monk is the Ultimate Jazz Pianist 👍
Sept 15, 1981.
RIP Mr. E ❤️
@@copperlocks1 It doesn't seem appropriate to just disagree. At least give like 1 reason, even a very subjective one. I myself don't have much of an opinion there though.
@@copperlocks1 MONK BACKWARDS IS KNOW!!!!
@@thomasnguyen1391 Listen to the track... Don't blame me.. His style can come of as Jarring at times , very raw.. but he never misses a stroke
For decades I've ignored Mr Evans. What could possibly be so interesting about some dude playing solo piano,I thought.
But then of course I listened to Keith Jarrett , why not Mr Evans?
And then recently, I dont know what it was, I decided to get into Bill Evans.
And , all I can say is, his looks are deceiving.
He looks so bookish. But he's anything but.
His brilliance just leaps off his fingertips. He's mystical.
It's like a super power.
He and Joe Pass...I overlooked them both all these years.
Im starting off on bill evans haha
I remember when this and Explorations came out in 1960. We all knew that this would revolutionize trio playing. No more workhorse timekeeping, think more contrapuntally, each member now having an equal share in the performance sort of thing. Bill's playing is exquisite here, unlike anything heard before it!
I can listen to this for hours straight
That bass. No words. Didn't know the tragic story of LaFaro until looking him up as I listen to this. That counter-melodic style creates such a great conversation between the bass and piano.
00:00 Come rain or come shine
03:20 Autumn Leaves
09:19 Witchcraft
13:54 When I fall in love
18:47 Peri’s scope
22:00 What is this thing called love?”
26:37 Spring is here
31:43 Someday my prince will come
36:39 Blue in Green
42:02 Come rain or come shine (Take 4)
47:30 Autumn leaves (Take 9)
53:49 Blue in Green (Take 1)
59:34 Blue in Green (Take 2)
Good man! Well done.
@@robbiereilly Pinch my ass cheeks, i got autumn leaves right, even thpugh it is highly modified. PlEASSSE DADDY
1:07 que cancion es?
@@pablosop como Anthony dijo, la cancion se llama "come rain or come shine"
Thanks Anthony...but no, the track at 59:34 is another take of Autumn Leaves
I used to have access to my parents' or sister's album collection, and the occasional friend I'd visit, but with RUclips, it's like having access to every parent's, sibling's, friend's album collection. GREAT stuff. Grazie!
There is no end to the pleasure and enightenment Bill Evans and friends give us.
He makes me feel at home.
I could listen to Bill Evans forever, and never get tired of his playing. So lovely and relaxing.
relaxing?
@@paolocecchi6403 Yes, very relaxing. Why? Does Bill Evans’s music not make you feel relaxed?
Agreed. Such a light, crisp touch to his playing
Furthermore, Bill Evans, Scott LaFaro, and Bill Motian were such in tune with each other musically and spiritually, while they played together during that too brief blip of a period. My favorite BIll Evans Trio of all!
I had heard of Bill Evans. Now listening to this I am liking it quite a bit
I love the best of all jazz musicians. He is the best forever more
Bill Evans was the main reason I started playing piano when I was about 19 years old. I was lucky enough to study with someone who knew him very well.
Dang thats amazing! Any stories on that?
For real! Aren't you lucky! Truly, any stories to be told? So rich!
You give any lessons? :) I'm a pretty good pianist as far as Western concert music goes, I play by ear. I do a lot of improv and have a huge Glass influence. But I'm so intimidated by jazz piano. The chordal shapes are so radically different at least it seems that way. :) It's one thing to know it's 7ths and 9ths and another thing to play them.
Steven Weber Clearwater St Pete Realtor we would Love to hear your piano music good sir
@@joseph-zoramcbride4029 The barry harris system is really useful for studying jazz and Shan Verma has a website called Jazz Skills that I recently signed up at and it's been really useful... basically there are no shortcuts but I'm starting to enjoy the work of getting these things under my fingers.
63 years so fresh love it
Bill Evans, Nothing short of (AMAZING) ever. One can clearly understand the bridge between him & Miles Davis! I call it **The Bridge of Genius** !!! ...
Veryyyyy true .... as Miles studied piano early.. before trumpet 😊❤❤
I've started playing piano at 20 because of Bill Evans.
Go, Man, Go!!!
1 year in hows it treating you?
@@cades2372 actually I'm 29 now. I learned some things :)
Practice, practice, practice! - Sir Ron
It's so swingy yet so soft, I feel like I could dance or relax listening to this. It has such a nice flow, and I feel like the piano is a voice. I could start singing along, the lyrics and scat are coming to my head as I listen and it's beautiful!!
Yes he’s making the piano sing for him!
I agree Bill Evans is one of the greatest pianists; but then there are so many great pianists. I was so fortunate when I was 9 my uncle used to bring heaps of jazz records home. Not just that, he took me to see Duke Ellington. My love of jazz is down to my Uncle Denny: thank you and RIP.
Who else lesser known do you recommend?
@@derekcarney They aren't lesser known but Erroll Garner and Oscar Peterson are great
@@awsome1605 Great! Thanks! I recently discovered Dudley Moore. I knew of him when I was little from the movie Arthur, but had NO IDEA he was even a musician ever. I thought he was just a comic actor. It doesn't seem like he gets much respect as again I never even knew until a few months ago that he even played music, but I found some really great stuff (in my opinion) by his trio from the 1960s. Why do I get the feeling I just went backstage to a gangsta rap concert and yelled out "Justin Bieber and Brittney Spears are the best!" ? Gulp.
@@awsome1605 yep, and people gotta listen to Art Tatum all virtuosos of the highest order!!!
I keep comming back. It still rocks.🤘
When my 10 year old was 9 he decided he wanted to play like this. We've been working on it for a year. It is so fun. He won't quit.
How are you two going?
Give us an update
@@lfdoidaowe never stopped. He is almost 13 and is a classical pianist. Debussy, Chopin, etc… it’s been nuts.
@@RedPillAwake Thats dope
@@lfdoidao thanks. He also learned jazz trumpet over the last few years. Which means I had to. 😂
The first with this trio: 1960 - Portrait in Jazz, Trio with Scott LaFaro, Paul Motian (Riverside)
1961 - Explorations, Trio with Scott LaFaro, Paul Motian (Riverside)
1961 - Sunday at the Village Vanguard, Live - Trio with Scott LaFaro, Paul Motian (Riverside)
1961 - Waltz for Debby, Live - Trio with Scott LaFaro, Paul Motian (Riverside)
Bill Evans était beauté, message, violence et rêve, mais surtout l'instrument puissant d'une volonté formidable. Il disait "Je veux" quand beaucoup d’autres marmonnaient "je voudrais" Il a atteint son but sans pour autant se plier à la plus infime compromission, comme une charrue accrochée à une étoile. Une fois pour toutes, ce musicien traçait son chemin et ne s'en écartait jamais, refusant toute flagornerie qui fait de la musique populaire d'aujourd'hui une lasse prostituée !
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This is so good to listen to while doing assignments. Great music
i was literally doin the same thing lol
same here. Jazz is always an essential part of the process
I have hope for the world!
God envied Evans's talent and music. So he took him to the heaven.
R.I.P Bill Evans
how old was he?
@@Riam-sc1ir He was 51 (1929 -1980).
@@starifolklorac thanks
Man this is a Seattle, New York skyscraper loft whiskey sipping drizzle on cue night time kind of album. And I haven’t even been to the US.
Even Bill's upbeat stuff is so mellifluous you could put words to it. Every chord, the perfect color. Every riff, the perfect narrative.
Siri what does mellifluous mean
As my husband composer arranger Jeremy Lubbock used to say of Bill Evans…..”God is in the details. No extraneous notes”. That’s how we should all treat music and life….as sublimely sacred.
@@AllIn1Studio My condolences on your (relatively recent) Ioss. I listened to a lecture last night By Stephanie Judd essentially saying that we find freedom when we embrace our human limits as created beings and when we accept those limits as wondrously God-given. The limit of me is the other and because there is other, there can be relationship and communication. I think that in music, not only do we experience an awesome communication with others, but we also see the wonder of creativity in another - a reflection of the Creator God. Life and music are indeed sublimely sacred.
@@WaitingForTheHook Sweetly melodious!
Well, you impelled me to look up that subtle little quadrisyllabic.
Agreed. Thumbs up.
When I Fall In Love? Superhuman ntellect interprets human emotions and we listen joyfully with mouths agape.
Dude could play, with such heart and that delicate touch, delicious!
Woo dude, very perceptive observation! That's the exact genius of Bill Evans & sets him apart. A distinct difference if you will !!!
Sakamichi No Apollon introduced me to the world of jazz. Bill Evans, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Oscar Peterson, Chet Baker, Art Blakey. My nights now feel way more relaxed.
In 1960 I was just 4 years old, not even going to primary school yet... not even listening to any jazz , barely some mass music and religious choirs from my granpa... once in a while ... but surprisingly when I listen to those notes, this piano playing those notes, it brings me back to the days...
(Big hugs from Paris France).
Exquisite musicianship. Bill Evan's mind was so wide open. My favourite pianist ever...whew !
This is my favorite!! when i was in high school, i gave this album to my loved teacher..
All of Bill's music never ceases to touch my soul, and it's been sixty years of listening.
One of my favorite jazz pianists playing some of my all time favorite pieces, Autumn Leaves and Blue in Green
Came across this gorgeous album in the mid seventies when I was 18. Beautiful stuff.
Malcom Wood
If I had a time machine... Such ear candy!
A FANTASTIC TRIO
A good friend gave me Waltz for Debby when I was in college and it changed my life. Jazz forever!
a good friend waltzed on my debby when i was in college and it changed my life. jizz forever!
@@OS-yg9fr this is actually hilarious i had a good laugh myself lol
There was only one Bill Evans and there is no other that can take his place. I am so thankful that he left so many great albums of his music.
So we're just going to pretend that Bill Evans the Welsh rugby player in the 1880s didn't exist?
So beautiful combination of musicians. Very profound playing
I remember a guitarist said he stopped playing the piano when he heard Art Tatum on the piano. When I listen to Bill Evans play I'm most always amazed by his skill and artistry. Just happy to listen.
Oscar Peterson almost did the same. Thank God he didn't!
And that was Les Paul.
Bill Evans music just puts the biggest smile on my face. Incredible!
it has almost the opposite effect on me. the music is so beautiful and the man was such a genius, but his lifestyle of drug addiction pains me when i think of it as he must have been a tortured soul.
In my journey of exploring music, Jazz is the one that I use to just wind up and chill. Beautiful music.
Writing about the 1960s and the jazz in New York and this recording is so full of melancholy. Touches those places and feelings, I thought I'd forgotten.
... I have grow to love the cuts between different ... bits
The sound of heaven... So relaxing and yet complex
Probably the first Evans' album I bought more than ten years ago. I already knew his work on Kind of Blue, and hearing him as a leader gave me the first impression of how great he was. I remember being shocked by how full and gentle at the same time his touch sounds. I realized later that this feeling had to do with the incredible care he put in left-hand voicings. The importance of the two hands is equal, even in the most swinging or "virtuoso" parts, and this probably has to do with his classcal music training. What a player. You really get the idea that the music is going somewhere in this record :).
Well Said.
There's never a note out of place - Bill's mastery of tone and timbre was something else.
So incitement brother
man what a sad story though(evans.)
My first Bill Evans album was a vinyl twofer reissue called "Peace Piece and Other Pieces". A lot of great trio work but also solo work that was intensely personal and that remains influential.
I have ADHD and it's so easy to work and concentrate with this music. It's the perfect background for my workday. :)
Likewise, I keep Bill Evans and many other jazz players on my CD player in the "man-cave" while I work. Time flies by very pleasantly. When I'm not working on something, I practice my drums to this music.
We have really been starting enjoy music from Bill Evans. Better late than never. Wonderful. Thank you.
Thank you for introducing me to this talented musician. Great style.
We are not worthy
It was one of the great ones that I admire most, he left a great work of modern jazz, I miss that time ... today there are people who do not come close to this genius of jazz.
"today there are people who do not come close to this genius of jazz." and there are people that do, as well. So, oh well..
He means we are so so few percentage of population and it’s sad. Keeping apart Jazz, wprld goes mad each day more and people killing everything
There are many definitions that defines Jazz, but Bill Evans is just Jazz.
This music takes you straight into the 60's.
This kind of music is timeless. No beginning or end of where it belongs. .
力強いピアノジャズまた良い音の響き魅了されます👍
Sublime. This was such a breakaway from what others were doing, and it could have been create yesterday...
I discovered Bill Evans through the music of Tom Misch. In an interview, Misch commented that he loves chopping up Evans' piano samples into his music. It's so lovely to hear the samples unaltered and shows how classic music can live on in current music.
No me canso nunca de esa mano lzquierda prodigiosa, y esos escarceos melódicos soprendentes y bellos. Qué música más hermosa.
His sharp and powerful touch piano tone always making deeply impresses me.
One of my fav pianists. Love his style.
Bill Evans remains the Jazz genius in what refers to piano music. His Village Vanguard Sessions still is one of the best album or couple of cds you could buy. Prefer Bill Evans to any other jazz pianist. Though like also what Peterson recorded with the Verve Label. We must remember that Evans was the brain behind Kind of Blue, the Miles Davis great cd. It wouldn't have been possible without him, he was the one knowing about tonal harmonies. Like a lot Evans Vanguard Sessions, with the excellent Scott La Faro at double bass. His kind of introverted piano shines in these legendary recordings. 🎶🎵❤️👍🤗
This album of Bill Evans is, without question, my favourite and most played in my collection. The magical trio in perfect rapport. Feeling such sadness for the passing so young of Scott LaFaro.
For years I've had Autumn Leaves pop up in my head at random times, unsure of the song's origin, remembering only that my dad used to play it on piano in our living room all the time growing up.
My father being a Bill Evans fan, it's no surprise that this is one of the songs he chose to play frequently.
Now I would like to one day learn to play a nice rendition on guitar.
It's a real joy finally knowing which song I so fondly (and randomly) remember.
Hard for others pianists to compete with this so personal and poetic play...a very very special and great guy...
This version of the track Autumn Leaves, I've been listening to since I was 15 and still living in China, and that was 19 years ago. At the time I had no idea whose it was since it came in a mix jazz CD that I found in a supermarket, and the tracks weren't even properly attributed, they just had translated titles on there. But I fell in love with this style of jazz and I would listen to the CD wherever I went, with my portable Panasonic CD player. It was a round thing that you had to be careful with carrying around since any sudden agitation could unsettle the spinning CD inside and cause the music to skip. How time flies.
Evans swings like crazy on this album, especially with the bonus tracks included... for me, more fun that practically anything else he recorded..
Mark Sawyer That’s because scott lafaro is on bass! Unfortuneatly he died shortly after these albums
Lafaro is great, you're right, but Evans actually thought this album was inferior to the ones he did later with Lafaro (see Village Vanguard) , which featured more piano-bass interplay and did not swing nearly as much...Lafaro stays pretty close to conventional beat keeping on this LP, though his solos are very nice... Evans' playing on the mono take on Autumn Leaves blows me away every time I listen to it...
Mark Sawyer Agree, but he swings at the vanguard as well; an absolutely incredible trio!
You're right.
I totally agree with you. This was my first Bill Evans Trio LP and I still come back to it just because it swings so hard.
I mean right off the get go, you hear “come rain or shine” played like it’s a head bopping funk song. You just can’t help but to tap your feet and bob your head.
Amazing music. Thanks for share.
I have no idea how many times I heard this album in my life. I had it in vynil , unfortunately a monaural copy and with no additional takes , and have it in CD. This one was recorded nearly a year after his collaboration with Miles Davis on "Kind of Blue". I would say both albums are essencial.
👏🏾👏🏾 Delightful to listen to.
I'm always so happy to find your comments here on RUclips, Mr. Carter. I also listen to Telepathy and you and Jim Hall at the Village West, endlessly🥰
This is totally another level in music 🎶, this is a deep relaxation of the mind and soul 🙏
i don't know whether to applaud cocaine and heroin or revile them. Virtuosity comes at a price. I survived my own coke battles to be able to appreciate this masterpiece. But damn, look at Samuel Jackson. Addiction can be overcome. This is my father's music and now I love it. I love you daddy. I wish we could have listened to this music together. Thanks for the musical support. Thank you bill for your contribution to the jazz genre.
Incredible chords, not too many notes like the most piano players do, that's great art! Thanks for sharing 🙏
its just insane what kind of mind he had
@@ethansadberry6069 Glenn Gould said Bill was the only Jazz pianist he heard who knew how to extract the proper tone from a Grand Piano......
@@sitarnutImagine that on your CV. Anything else would be superfluous.
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De los mejores pianistas de jazz en el mundo bill evans
One of the best recordings ever. Thank you for the beautiful music. 😍
Portrait in Jazz is an album by American jazz pianist Bill Evans, released in 1960. Personnel: Bill Evans (p) Scott LaFaro (b) Paul Motian (dr) Released: 1960 .
Legendary album. Legendary piano player. Legendary band. What else ?
This is a classic! This and Portrait of Jazz Open up a whole new way of playing jazz music. And sounds is modern today as it was then. Thanks for posting, people need to hear this album!
Yes, very much so, and it was totally ignored by Ken Burns, who seems to believe that everything post-swing was decadent in jazz.
@@marcoribeiro3053 I was as shocked as you. The fact he didn't mention Wes Montgomery floored me too. 2 major influences of jazz not shown the tribute they deserved.
absolutely brilliant
Just started listing to Bill Evans. It's wonderful. Bird really unleashed all the jazz instruments. I believe Coltrane and Evans are his followers in allowing flow in any direction. It was like Bird broke down some sort of conceptual dike.
Bird Lives!
Timeless album. Thanks for uploading this masterpiece
Bill Evans played all around the E. Village but most notably at the Village Vanguard. - I saw him at 'The Bottom Line' on Houston. Great performance !!! ~
This guy is just so damn good! The more I listen, the more I like his work
Besides The Village Vanguard two cds sessions, if you want something more of him, this is the cd to have. Personally I like everything he did with La Faro. But this is a good sample of his best with that cool double bass La Faro was, and Paul Motian at drums. Very good jazz music. Somehow Bill Evans was a bit of a genius.
Somehow, a bit….
excelente pianista, para mi gusto, uno de los mejores pianistas que escuche.es completo con muy buen fraseo...
Rafael Roberto Augier. And Monk ,ray ,mary Lou
I'm really diggin' this album. Thanks for sharing.
The best jazz musician ever...
I'm glad the digital remaster amps up LaFaro. He was often difficult to hear on my original vinyl.
Christmas Day Thank you Luann Merry Christmas 2021 50 years of amazing legacy's
puedo escuchar su música miles de veces y siempre me parece absolutamente nueva
Super...and all of this with a face like a District Attorney.
My first listen to this as it came on, accidently, now I'm listening, so enjoying this album, that I've had to stop to say thank you for posting.
Wow. Autumn Leaves is so amazing.
Especially considering the somewhat banal nature of original composition and the song as a whole. He totally transforms it.
Peace on your way to you and all who are reading this 🌹