Nabil BERERICHE Yes, I agree! In a number of cultures and languages, Hawai’i for example, there is just one word the two. The two are so inseparable as to be the same thing.
Such a cool atmosphere, it feels almost like a scene from some european art house film, but it really is a real interview! Honestly I am flabbergasted how cool everyone and everything is. For a small public broadcasting company YLE (who filmed this) did a marvelous job with Bill Evans trio living room concert.
True. Keep in mind, this was in a wealthy home in one of the most exclusive locations in Finland. YLE is not as small as you think. They are often a major player in some relatively big internatonal productions.
That was back when 'cool' meant a cool disposition - not disturbed or excited by anything. Then the 80s came and 'cool' turned into some kind of Bobcat Goldthwait/Bart Simpson "Hey dude!" excitable character. I prefer original cool.
Bill Evans had a light, lyrical touch that was so beautiful, it made it seem like you could hear the gates of heaven. But like so many tragic artists, he died way too young 😢 Rest In Peace Bill Evans 🙏🏾🎹
Evans open the big gate of jazz music for me. When I was a child, I remembered the first time I hear the sound from "Autumn Leave", and I immediately know this is what I'm looking for all the time. And after heard many jazz records and playing, Bill Evans is still my number one jazz piano player. You just can't get tired of listening to those magical note, one after another.
I'm very impressed at the high quality of this video. Especially since this came from the 70's! The compression is nowhere near as bad all the other Bill Evans videos. Thanks for posting this! Bill Evans is the man!
I’ve heard his music for so many years, and I became a fan as a teenager when I learned that he was trained here in Louisiana at Southeastern Louisiana University. (He died shortly after I discovered his music so I never got to see him perform live, unfortunately). So, after 40+ years of appreciating this man’s remarkable talent and grace, I finally get to hear him speak. Hear his voice. And I’m damn impressed - to paraphrase what someone else commented here - he was a graceful, elegant speaker - just as his playing was. What a unique talent, time to listen to more Bill Evans Trio. Thank you for posting this! Literally the first time I’ve heard the man talk... so cool. This is why I love RUclips...
He is a good interview. A lot of musicians do not interview very well. This is around the time I was first getting into Jazz, He liked Bach as a favorite, He liked Classical and Debussy in the Impressionist period.
well, this was a pleasure to listen to. he seems like a nice quite sensible guy as expressed by his piano play as enriching the minds of his fellows by sharing his insights of beeing ecstatic with music. yum yum, thank you =)
Wow, I think he really captures the modern predicament in popular (spotify artists, though I don’t necessarily mean any shade!) music today when he articulates the danger of expressing feelings that are too “everyday” (~7:40ish mark). There is such an emphasis on expression over and against aesthetic sensibility, or maybe craftsmanship, more precisely put. Such profound insight and kinship with the nature of music!
I didn't understand his use of "everyday" in the sentence about the dangers of the avant-garde being "too personal". By that, I thought he meant that avant-gardists were running into the usual avant-garde problem of not being "everyday" enough. Surely the "everyday" has little or nothing to do with the "personal"? The "everyday" usually refers to what's usual or 'normal'; something an avant-gardist flees from.
This was filmed in my hometown of Helsinki almost 20 years before I was born, I love Bill Evans and his approach to the piano, that's some very intelligent words on avant-garde jazz as well (referred to as free nowadays?)
Some of their accents are pretty heavy but Bill's comment about the baby in the crib made me think, I never thought of it like that. Its like you want to have a voice (in music) and style of your own need to be selective about the music you play and feelings you express. Thanks for uploading.
The last thing he said was really important: that you develop by playing in front of audiences and with peers constantly. (Not by watching youtube videos.)
"I think, what we looked for is that: Freedom with responsibility. In other words, there is no requirement to do anything at a certain time, but we like to feel like that we're responsible to the total performance."
Bill Evans has an individual and unique quality about him . It resonates from him...it resonates out of him whilst he speaks and plays. To this day , the Gold standard! 🏆🥇🏆🥇🏆🥇🏆🥇🏆🥇🏆🥇🏆
Marty Morell is still around. In fact, I'm going to see him in concert tomorrow night here in Orlando. He's still playing well, but plays much different now than he did with Bill Evans--more firey and louder.
Retrorex, hi! I just finished this wonderful video, Bill Evans- an icon- and even his interview was inspiring! And what a cool surprise to see Marty Morell again! Then to read your comment ...Marty will Not remember! but I met him around 1970 (?) in Toronto, where I used to sing, he played a couple of our gigs with Paul Grosney's band and was fantastic! It's both weird and pleasant to have this ancient "connection" of sorts with the old days of my former life. Which I miss so much...enjoy your jazz night out! Toronto's still in lockdown, including our live music venues. 😡
This is wonderful footage, thanks for posting this! Shows us a nation of not exactly laid back, but at least as curious people. The audio/video quality is very good considering it's a private home. I know the place. Great to hear Bill Evans' voice, such a great voice. I wish the host would have offered something else than coffee and cakes. Perhaps they did.
13 👎 ???? Who in the world can these 13 people be ? What sort of humanoid dislikes this modest, kind and sincere genius ? There is no limit to the gratitude that we should feel and express for having witnessed his performances and for being able To keep enjoying every chord after all thesee years. He was the greatest. I know there were many great ones , Duke, Count, Art, Oscar, Thelonious, Errol, Even Fats , Keith or then Rubinstein, Horowitz or Gould .....'.' Mr Evans is on top just by himself. B. Low Brussels
Most musicians, and particularly jazz musicians, find it difficult if not impossible to speak clearly and incisively about their music and what they seek to achieve in it. Bill Evans was that rare exception.
Yeah, bill is such a force in jazz. Me personally, I think music is like a force of art that you can get into whatever you're playing. I personally think p My perception of jazz is probably bigger and more widespread than most people
Notice how Jazz Performance exuded a stuffy shirt and tie presence back when video recording tech involved hundreds of pounds of rigidly mounted camera equipment. That he mentions Jeremy Steig, a stand out flutist at a time when that instrument was barely noticed, is a curious revelation from a renown musician of his genre.
Soy un gran enamorado de la música de Bill Evans pero me duele mucho cuando se citan a otros músicos y no se nombra nunca a Lennie Tristano. Me duele muchísimo y Bill es de mis primeros favoritos sin duda...
“I don’t like to hear superfluous things…I don’t like obvious embroidery” Isn’t that just Bill Evans’ beauty, that he doesn’t play anything unless it’s pertinent and SAYS something.
"be very selective about the feelings you want to express because otherwise you could get as subjective as an infant that's crying in his crib and no one can deny that this infant is expressing himself, but no one would call it art." This is what jazz today has become... crying infants 'expressing' themselves in A-tonal nonsense
yeah, that's a point. but think there is way more to categorise some types of expression. i mean, from your point, that just separates the minimalist from the maximalist right? emotionwise it could be like, Evans seems to have a very shy personality. in some case, there could be a hint of shame and self torture to his mind, being such smooth and and maybe holding back at least. coltrane otherwise said, that humans lie when they speak, so he let the music speak the truth (kind of that) and with this priest like mentality he was forced to let everything thru the horn which comes thru his mind. it's just an opinion. what do you think people? greets markus
Actually, this hits me so much...I just couldn't figure out my "creative force" or that sense of artistry that I often find in jazz music like that of Bill Evans and of that very same artistry in poetry.
...i lke,too, his phisycal transformation through the time and life...his way of looking,...in his younger years, he looked older in a way ,to me, like straight profesor, while till the end of his life he changed in freely way, looking like ,having that look like hippy ,artist style...😎!?!...🌹❤️
Love his answer at 7:13 Q: Your opinion about these avant-garde? A: I think there’s a very healthy thing going on. I don’t think it’s gotten organized enough yet. Maybe the only thing that I think is, a danger about allowing yourself all of this freedom, is that you could sometimes indulge yourself and express feelings that are too personal--I mean to everyday personal feelings that might not relate to another person. And I think that you have to be very careful to have an aesthetic guiding force if you allow yourself this kind of a freedom, and also be very selective about the feelings that you want to express, because otherwise you could get as subjective as, as an infant that’s crying in his crib; and no one can deny that this infant is expressing himself, but no one would call it art.
Nah, art is all about expressing yourself, many times it's the only way. That's way people do it and consume it. Bill had problems expressing himself in real life, of course he would behave the same way in his art and think it's how it should be. He is exceptional but had his problems
This guy was so intelligent when he wasn't playing jazz he spent all his time reading philosophers from Plato to Frederick Nietzsche and from Freud to yung
Saw Bill Evans at Ronnie Scott's London in the 1960's. He autographed my purse......then it was stolen ,the next day I think,in Kingston UK by a grinning imp of a child 😞. I have his album Conversations With Myself.
Isn't it remarkable the level of interest shown by the somewhat 'large' group assembled here, the almost 'scientific' nature and level of the enquiry, the depth of the questioning and corresponding detail of the responses? Discourse is not static across time. Rather, it is mediated by many factors having to do with contexts of time and place This clip provides a good example.
@ctrlzjones if doctors are paid according to the number of years they've studied their craft, shouldn't jazz musicians be paid for the decades of training it takes to master jazz? shouldn't the older masters be millionaires instead of relying on medicare and social security (if they've even earned enough to qualify for it)?
Classical pianists Ive talked to admire Bil Evens because while classical musicians interpret the music of the composer, Bill composes and interprets in real time. Not quite the same as improvising
@ctrlzjones I read his biography and learned bill evans didn't get his teeth fixed till way later on in his career, through a family friend who offered to do it for free. Only then, was he able. Shame for such a genius to have to go through that.
Ha Ha -Yeah it's crazy isn't it- didn't really seem to matter- they killed it every time. How does he stay so lucid and brimming full of intellect? Surely enriched many lives-I know I'd wear an "I Love Bill Evans" Tee shirt in a 1/2 second!
L'intervista è molto interessante, ma sto cercando un'altra parte dell'intervista, stesso giorno e stesso luogo a Helsinky in cui il trio suona "Emily". Dove posso trovarla?
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"What we want is freedom with responsibility"
Deep words.
Nabil BERERICHE Yes, I agree! In a number of cultures and languages, Hawai’i for example, there is just one word the two. The two are so inseparable as to be the same thing.
totally
GAY
Agreed. Too many yo-yos in America go around crowing about freedom, never mentioning responsibility.
This is definition of creativity.
Bill was just as graceful and as effective speaking, as he was when playing the piano.
@Anderson Cooper jealousy rears its ugly head once more...
mercury in virgo moon in capricorn and capricorn lilith
he was very
very
realistic
@Anderson Cooper but is that any of our business ?
@Anderson Cooper yeah heroin ain't good.nothing graceful about it.. but God's gifts are graceful...
Yes
Such a cool atmosphere, it feels almost like a scene from some european art house film, but it really is a real interview! Honestly I am flabbergasted how cool everyone and everything is. For a small public broadcasting company YLE (who filmed this) did a marvelous job with Bill Evans trio living room concert.
True. Keep in mind, this was in a wealthy home in one of the most exclusive locations in Finland. YLE is not as small as you think. They are often a major player in some relatively big internatonal productions.
"the trio has never rehearsed" - that quote knocks me on my ass
What do you think he means by that never rehearsed?
@@bill3837that everything you hear is fresh and spontaneous as it gets . Musicians in sync
Calm, cool and collected.
That was back when 'cool' meant a cool disposition - not disturbed or excited by anything. Then the 80s came and 'cool' turned into some kind of Bobcat Goldthwait/Bart Simpson "Hey dude!" excitable character. I prefer original cool.
Yet, with so much to say.
Bill Evans had a light, lyrical touch that was so beautiful, it made it seem like you could hear the gates of heaven. But like so many tragic artists, he died way too young 😢
Rest In Peace Bill Evans 🙏🏾🎹
Yes
How amazing is it that Evans speaks about music as connections between people? You get that in hearing his music.
Oo
“Never rehearsed” Bill Evans trio is like the big 3 of jazz
Everybody digs Bill Evans!
Yes we do.
Evans open the big gate of jazz music for me. When I was a child, I remembered the first time I hear the sound from "Autumn Leave", and I immediately know this is what I'm looking for all the time. And after heard many jazz records and playing, Bill Evans is still my number one jazz piano player. You just can't get tired of listening to those magical note, one after another.
I'm very impressed at the high quality of this video. Especially since this came from the 70's! The compression is nowhere near as bad all the other Bill Evans videos. Thanks for posting this! Bill Evans is the man!
How about Krispin Glover as B.E. ....oh yeah..
Love this! Life long fan of Bill Evans, such a brilliant artist.
Bill Evans is a Master Legend and genius.
Agree
I’ve heard his music for so many years, and I became a fan as a teenager when I learned that he was trained here in Louisiana at Southeastern Louisiana University. (He died shortly after I discovered his music so I never got to see him perform live, unfortunately).
So, after 40+ years of appreciating this man’s remarkable talent and grace, I finally get to hear him speak. Hear his voice. And I’m damn impressed - to paraphrase what someone else commented here - he was a graceful, elegant speaker - just as his playing was.
What a unique talent, time to listen to more Bill Evans Trio.
Thank you for posting this! Literally the first time I’ve heard the man talk... so cool. This is why I love RUclips...
RUclips is the world's collective library
Bring back those times
Elegant, eloquent, classy and intelligent
Like someones poetry ? 🙂
Oh Bill...thanks for the great music. I'm sorry for your struggles; you left us much too soon. Thanks for posting this...I love this man and his music
his mind, music and vision is timeless.
He is a good interview. A lot of musicians do not interview very well. This is around the time I was first getting into Jazz, He liked Bach as a favorite, He liked Classical and Debussy in the Impressionist period.
Freedom with responsability...amazing words, and indeed, very deep ones. The trio never rehearsed...wow!!! Beyond amazing musicians...
So well spoken. I love Bill Evans so much.
Bill Evans. Never forget the first time I heard his music.
Devin Gademan OFFICIAL for me: Waltz for Debbie from the Jazz Masters cd.
Cloud! Nite!
"The intellect only goes as far as being a student"....
well, this was a pleasure to listen to. he seems like a nice quite sensible guy as expressed by his piano play as enriching the minds of his fellows by sharing his insights of beeing ecstatic with music. yum yum, thank you =)
This is so dope! I wish Bill knew how much he meant to people.
Wow, I think he really captures the modern predicament in popular (spotify artists, though I don’t necessarily mean any shade!) music today when he articulates the danger of expressing feelings that are too “everyday” (~7:40ish mark). There is such an emphasis on expression over and against aesthetic sensibility, or maybe craftsmanship, more precisely put. Such profound insight and kinship with the nature of music!
He was such a high level thinker!
Precisely this.
I didn't understand his use of "everyday" in the sentence about the dangers of the avant-garde being "too personal". By that, I thought he meant that avant-gardists were running into the usual avant-garde problem of not being "everyday" enough. Surely the "everyday" has little or nothing to do with the "personal"? The "everyday" usually refers to what's usual or 'normal'; something an avant-gardist flees from.
@@blackmore4 you’re right I forgot that he said that in the context of the question about avant-garde jazz. Thank you for pointing that out
God I love this guy. What a true genius!!!
This was filmed in my hometown of Helsinki almost 20 years before I was born, I love Bill Evans and his approach to the piano, that's some very intelligent words on avant-garde jazz as well (referred to as free nowadays?)
“Freedom with responsibility.”
I like that statement.
His answer to the question about "avant garde" was perfect.
What a very interesting person to hear and listen to, Bill Evans. Yes very deep.
Some of their accents are pretty heavy but Bill's comment about the baby in the crib made me think, I never thought of it like that. Its like you want to have a voice (in music) and style of your own need to be selective about the music you play and feelings you express. Thanks for uploading.
Rufus The Pink Elephant just had the same thought
So much of music today is a baby crying in the crib.
Avant les net ces archives était inconsultables merci🖥
The last thing he said was really important: that you develop by playing in front of audiences and with peers constantly.
(Not by watching youtube videos.)
Yes, with everything in life! You only learn 'on the job'.
"I think, what we looked for is that: Freedom with responsibility. In other words, there is no requirement to do anything at a certain time, but we like to feel like that we're responsible to the total performance."
this is a gold mine. if i could play even as half as good as bill evans before i die, i will be a content man.
Wow, thanks for sharing this!
Bill Evans has an individual and unique quality about him . It resonates from him...it resonates out of him whilst he speaks and plays.
To this day , the Gold standard!
🏆🥇🏆🥇🏆🥇🏆🥇🏆🥇🏆🥇🏆
Just the genius.
Amazing interview ... truly classic vintage footage ...
Marty Morell is still around. In fact, I'm going to see him in concert tomorrow night here in Orlando. He's still playing well, but plays much different now than he did with Bill Evans--more firey and louder.
Retrorex, hi! I just finished this wonderful video, Bill Evans- an icon- and even his interview was inspiring! And what a cool surprise to see Marty Morell again! Then to read your comment ...Marty will Not remember! but I met him around 1970 (?) in Toronto, where I used to sing, he played a couple of our gigs with Paul Grosney's band and was fantastic! It's both weird and pleasant to have this ancient "connection" of sorts with the old days of my former life. Which I miss so much...enjoy your jazz night out! Toronto's still in lockdown, including our live music venues. 😡
This is wonderful footage, thanks for posting this!
Shows us a nation of not exactly laid back, but at least as curious people. The audio/video quality is very good considering it's a private home. I know the place. Great to hear Bill Evans' voice, such a great voice.
I wish the host would have offered something else than coffee and cakes. Perhaps they did.
thanks
The great Bill Evans .....
13 👎 ???? Who in the world can these 13 people be ? What sort of humanoid dislikes this modest, kind and sincere genius ?
There is no limit to the gratitude that we should feel and express for having witnessed his performances and for being able
To keep enjoying every chord after all thesee years.
He was the greatest. I know there were many great ones , Duke, Count, Art, Oscar, Thelonious, Errol, Even Fats , Keith or then Rubinstein, Horowitz or Gould .....'.' Mr Evans is on top just by himself.
B. Low
Brussels
Wonderful interveiw !
Absolute musical genius
Most musicians, and particularly jazz musicians, find it difficult if not impossible to speak clearly and incisively about their music and what they seek to achieve in it. Bill Evans was that rare exception.
Ever heard Lyle Mays speak about it?
Eddie Gomez is so young. I've never heard him talk at this age. Any age for that matter. Such a badass.
Yeah I was surprised to see him. I didn’t even know he would have been old enough to be playing with Bill back in 1970
this has been on since 2009 wow anyway thanks for this. Bill Evans !
such weighty gems are being said by him. i jist have my air pods on cleaning while phone charges. had to double back and restart
emocionante ver a un ídolo de este tamaño
Guy sound like chomsky to me. Great upload. Thank you.
Real genius!
Great footage!
Yeah, bill is such a force in jazz. Me personally, I think music is like a force of art that you can get into whatever you're playing. I personally think p My perception of jazz is probably bigger and more widespread than most people
Bill taught jazz for a semester or more at the UM music dept. By invitation. ❤
When adults actually were allowed to create music and art at a very high level!
@ 0:11 @ 0:23 @ 0:33 Bill's newest admirer. The innocence of 'Debby'. Somewhere back there, in us all. Eternalized, for us all, by Mr. William Evans.
debussy, ravel, bartok (and bach of course) - amazing influences
"well, he was counting measures one day..."
A genius!
Bill Evans played with space and tranquility in mind, always with a purpose.
I'm amazed at the least. Bill's teaching me how to speak eloquently.
Didn't most (educated) people speak like this in the 1960s?
@@herrbonk3635 I realised that, but I think even the "educated" (English-speaking) celebrities nowadays don't speak like this anymore.
Bill Evans sounds like David Lynch
He was a real intellectual, no doubt about it.
what a legend
Notice how Jazz Performance exuded a stuffy shirt and tie presence
back when video recording tech involved hundreds of pounds of rigidly mounted camera equipment. That he mentions Jeremy Steig, a stand out
flutist at a time when that instrument was barely noticed, is a curious revelation from a renown musician of his genre.
Didn't notice that he mentioned Steig. At what point?
Go to 5:40. Brief mention of Steig
Yes - Evans also played flute when he was young, apparently with some proficiency, so he would have appreciated Steig
What made you decide to leave? (classical music for jazz); Morell: "Well...", Bill: "He was counting measures one day, ..." - ;-)
Treasure.
Soy un gran enamorado de la música de Bill Evans pero me duele mucho cuando se citan a otros músicos y no se nombra nunca a Lennie Tristano. Me duele muchísimo y Bill es de mis primeros favoritos sin duda...
Amazing
That's an excerpt from a concert he gave in a posh private residence on Lauttasaari in Helsinki. Full video exists on RUclips.
Yeah he said once that he wants the music to express exceptional moments and insights as opposed to the banal.
“I don’t like to hear superfluous things…I don’t like obvious embroidery”
Isn’t that just Bill Evans’ beauty, that he doesn’t play anything unless it’s pertinent and SAYS something.
Would he perhaps be on the level of those great classical composers? I think so.
"be very selective about the feelings you want to express because otherwise you could get as subjective as an infant that's crying in his crib and no one can deny that this infant is expressing himself, but no one would call it art." This is what jazz today has become... crying infants 'expressing' themselves in A-tonal nonsense
Aerial J I thought he was talking about Coltrane's later experimental work
yeah, that's a point. but think there is way more to categorise some types of expression. i mean, from your point, that just separates the minimalist from the maximalist right?
emotionwise it could be like, Evans seems to have a very shy personality. in some case, there could be a hint of shame and self torture to his mind, being such smooth and and maybe holding back at least.
coltrane otherwise said, that humans lie when they speak, so he let the music speak the truth (kind of that) and with this priest like mentality he was forced to let everything thru the horn which comes thru his mind.
it's just an opinion. what do you think people?
greets markus
Actually, this hits me so much...I just couldn't figure out my "creative force" or that sense of artistry that I often find in jazz music like that of Bill Evans and of that very same artistry in poetry.
@@hab33b0doubt it. Coltrane probably inhabited Evan's mind very rarely. If he was thinking about anyone it'd more likely be Miles.
Oh kick rocks
Magnifique,
@Skinzlivez I quite agree. For a long time he hesitated between a classical "career" and a jazz one...
Holy shit you guys.
I had never listened to Bill Evans' voice before. Seemed to me like a shy guy, but doesn´t seem to be at all. Who is the little girl?
...i lke,too, his phisycal transformation through the time and life...his way of looking,...in his younger years, he looked older in a way ,to me, like straight profesor, while till the end of his life he changed in freely way, looking like ,having that look like hippy ,artist style...😎!?!...🌹❤️
A pure genius at, or away from the keys.... When I think of beauty in music, I think Bill first.
Love his answer at 7:13
Q: Your opinion about these avant-garde?
A: I think there’s a very healthy thing going on. I don’t think it’s gotten organized enough yet. Maybe the only thing that I think is, a danger about allowing yourself all of this freedom, is that you could sometimes indulge yourself and express feelings that are too personal--I mean to everyday personal feelings that might not relate to another person.
And I think that you have to be very careful to have an aesthetic guiding force if you allow yourself this kind of a freedom, and also be very selective about the feelings that you want to express, because otherwise you could get as subjective as, as an infant that’s crying in his crib; and no one can deny that this infant is expressing himself, but no one would call it art.
Nah, art is all about expressing yourself, many times it's the only way. That's way people do it and consume it. Bill had problems expressing himself in real life, of course he would behave the same way in his art and think it's how it should be. He is exceptional but had his problems
This guy was so intelligent when he wasn't playing jazz he spent all his time reading philosophers from Plato to Frederick Nietzsche and from Freud to yung
Saw Bill Evans at Ronnie Scott's London in the 1960's.
He autographed my purse......then it was stolen ,the next day I think,in Kingston UK by a grinning imp of a child 😞.
I have his album Conversations With Myself.
that chick at :54 tho
Devin Doherty yes oh my yes
Isn't it remarkable the level of interest shown by the somewhat 'large' group assembled here, the almost 'scientific' nature and level of the enquiry, the depth of the questioning and corresponding detail of the responses? Discourse is not static across time. Rather, it is mediated by many factors having to do with contexts of time and place This clip provides a good example.
I am going to use that line about comparing crying babies to subjective artists and expressing everything
Eddie Gomez looks like Tostoa. The great Brasilian football legend.
Crispin Glover could play him in a biopic
Maybe the look, but Glover's voice is too gutteral like Jordan Peterson's.
@ctrlzjones if doctors are paid according to the number of years they've studied their craft, shouldn't jazz musicians be paid for the decades of training it takes to master jazz? shouldn't the older masters be millionaires instead of relying on medicare and social security (if they've even earned enough to qualify for it)?
Classical pianists Ive talked to admire Bil Evens because while classical musicians interpret the music of the composer, Bill composes and interprets in real time. Not quite the same as improvising
Well what are you calling? Improvising can improvising a part of doing variations on the Melody?
@ctrlzjones I read his biography and learned bill evans didn't get his teeth fixed till way later on in his career, through a family friend who offered to do it for free. Only then, was he able. Shame for such a genius to have to go through that.
Ha Ha -Yeah it's crazy isn't it- didn't really seem to matter- they killed it every time. How does he stay so lucid and brimming full of intellect? Surely enriched many lives-I know I'd wear an "I Love Bill Evans" Tee shirt in a 1/2 second!
Are there performances available to watch from this same film?
🥀💚
Marvelously lucid
the true cool.
Who's that at 0:55? Dayum!
Such classic beauty...
Bill Evans perfects his Jack Nicholson look!
Jack repays the compliment in the film The King of Marvin Gardens ;-))
L'intervista è molto interessante, ma sto cercando un'altra parte dell'intervista, stesso giorno e stesso luogo a Helsinky in cui il trio suona "Emily". Dove posso trovarla?
00:54, damn she's something! We miss you Bill.
@hansis I don't think anyone could get to a QUARTER of what bill was as a musician