Here is Marty Morell playing Grandfather’s Waltz, from the Bill Evans live album But Beautiful, featuring Stan Getz, recorded in 1974. Tempo is peppy, he’s playing a modern Elvinish type of thing. Bit of trivia: […]
Category: Bill Evans
Transcription: Philly Joe trading
Here is Philly Joe Jones trading eights and fours with Bill Evans on Minority, from one of my favorite records, Everybody Digs Bill Evans. It’s a good tune to learn. I’ve written just the drum […]
Practice loop: Night & Day – Bill Evans
Here’s a brighter-medium tempo jazz practice loop, sampled from Night & Day, played by Bill Evans on his album Everybody Digs Bill Evans— one of my favorite records, period. The loop is one chorus of […]
Very occasional quote of the day: technique
There are a few technique-related posts coming up, and after last week’s teaching rant, this quote from Bill Evans is particularly timely. Italics are mine: “Technique we always think of as being a thing having to […]
Very occasional quote of the day: late arrivers
“There’s a certain kind of people that are more or less late arrivers, you can – even though he was certainly on the scene and known and respected – you can hear him building his […]
Daily best music in the world: Peace Piece
Seems like the perfect time of year for this. I had been away from one of my favorite records in the world, Everybody Digs Bill Evans, for long enough that for a moment I forgot […]
Transcription: Paul Motian – Israel
UPDATE: Download link working now. Here are a couple of famous drum breaks by Paul Motian, from Israel, a 12 bar tune on Bill Evans’ Explorations; Motian and Evans trade choruses before the head out. […]
Bill Evans speaks
Here’s a nice, timely (given the last post) find from Ted at Trap’d: pianist Bill Evans talking at length about music:
Transcription: three Bill Evans intros
Here are my new transcriptions of a couple of famous Philly Joe Jones intros from Everybody Digs Bill Evans, plus one not-so-famous by Marty Morell, from But Beautiful, Evans’ great live record with Stan Getz. […]
It’s hard to believe it has an age.
Via Larry Appelbaum @ Let’s Cool One: today is the 50th birthday of one of the greatest albums in jazz, Oliver Nelson’s Blues and the Abstract Truth. Like a lot of other people, the first […]
1996 Paul Motian interview, part 3: ding ding GA-ding
Third part of my excerpts of Chuck Braman’s 1996 Paul Motian interview. TIPS AND COMMENTS: Chuck: Did any of the musicians you worked with ever offer you any advice or make musical comments that struck […]
1996 Paul Motian interview, part 2: I Don’t Have To Do S**t
Part 2 of my excerpts of Chuck Braman’s 1996 Paul Motian interview. Here Motian discusses his approach to the instrument. NOT THINKING DRUMSET: Chuck: What would you say is the central concept of how you […]