It’s been a very long time since I last listened to Bill Evans. For an odd reason, today’s last work very much reminded me of early Baroque sonatas.
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This is probably more appropriate to be said on the Jazz Bored, but listening to the penultimate track played on today's programme, 34 Skiddoo, instantly gave me the clue I'd been searching for when tracing my way through the few extant recordings of the British pianist Mike Taylor, and reaching the very individual adaptations he made of Bill Evans's manner of comping: to whit, the singular emphasising of off-beats with augmented chords throughout the improvised section to destabilise the underlying harmonic structure of the theme and thereby throw the listener's attention off-centre. This must I think have had a strong impression on Mike Taylor when he came to record his album Trio in 1966 with Jon Hiseman and Jack Bruce, and I don't know anywhere else in Evans's output (what I know of it) where he does anything quite like this. -
........and Peace Piece. Erik Satie?Originally posted by doversoul1 View Post
Bill Evans is one of those Jazz musicians that has grown in stature over the years, IMHO.Comment
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I played a lot of the trio recordings to death years ago.
.... I find these days that the only Evans performances I return to are the solo recordings, especially the album Alone"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Nah - Chopin: that Nocturne - the one piece of his anyone just about can play.Originally posted by Oddball View PostComment
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