Bill evans conversations with myself12/5/2023 ![]() As a performer, teacher, writer and composer, he brings a deep knowledge, intense virtuosity and contagious passion to all things banjo, with thousands of music fans and banjo students from all over the world in a music career that now spans over thirty-five years.īill's banjo artistry is best experienced in live performance and on his recordings Fine Times At Fletcher's House with Fletcher Bright (2013), In Good Company (2012), let's do something with Megan Lynch (2009), Bill Evans Plays Banjo (2001) and Native and Fine (1995). Is an internationally recognized five-string banjo life force. A thoughtful and (despite the overdubbing) spontaneous-sounding set of melodic music." (Scott Yanow, AMG) In particular, his versions of Johnny Mandel's "Emily" and "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" are most memorable. The program is brief, but Evans plays quite well throughout. "For Bill Evans' second solo record of unaccompanied but overdubbed piano solos, he decided to simplify the concept used in Conversations with Myself (which had him playing three pianos) by only playing two this time. Evans' amazing musical comprehension is given center stage while running through classic jazz sides like "'Round Midnight," "Stella By Starlight" and "Just You, Just Me." "Blue Monk" showcases a muscularity to Evans' playing that he rarely displayed, while the "Love Theme From Spartacus" showcases Evans' signature use of space, time and inference.” (AllAboutJazz) ![]() In each song, it is as if three distinctive "sides" or "personalities" of Bill Evans are playing together.each keenly aware of what the others are doing, and perhaps more importantly, will do. Evans work on the ten tunes included here is truly inspired and amazing to behold. "Garnering a 5 star review from Downbeat in 1963, and a Grammy, Conversations With Myself was an instant classic for the jazz community. Recording with Glenn Gould's piano, CD 318, at studio sessions on February 6 and 9, and May 20, 1963, Evans used the then controversial method of overdubbing three different yet corresponding piano tracks for each song.” “Conversations with Myself is a 1963 album by American jazz musician Bill Evans. The album itself was impossibly good and is acknowledged to be one of the most stunning ventures ever recorded. The mere conception is enough to clear all eight sinus passages. In it, Bill became a trio-recording one piano track and then, using headphones, adding a second track, then a third. The idea for this album is an extension of the idea behind an album Bill made four years ago, called, Conversations With Myself. It used the then controversial method of overdubbing three different yet corresponding piano tracks for each song, and earned Evans his first Grammy Award in 1964 for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group.Info for Further Conversations With Myself (Remastered) Conversations with Myself was an instant classic for the jazz community when it was released in 1963. In late 1959, Evans left the Miles Davis band and began his career as a leader, with bassist Scott LaFaro and drummer Paul Motian, a group now regarded as a seminal modern jazz trio. During that time, Evans was also playing with Chet Baker for the album Chet. In 1958, Evans joined Miles Davis’s sextet and recorded Kind of Blue, the best-selling jazz album of all time. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, block chords, and trademark rhythmically independent, “singing” melodic lines continue to influence jazz pianists today. Bill Evans was an American jazz pianist and composer who mostly played in trios.
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