{"id":12749,"date":"2021-09-05T12:31:47","date_gmt":"2021-09-05T17:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?p=12749"},"modified":"2021-09-05T13:15:44","modified_gmt":"2021-09-05T18:15:44","slug":"bill-evans-lives-in-colorization-in-a-full-concert-from-1965-plus-the-universal-mind-of-evans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?p=12749","title":{"rendered":"Bill Evans lives (!), in color(ization) in a full concert from 1965, plus “The Universal Mind” of Evans"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jazz pianist Bill Evans in 1965. Courtesy BBC<\/em><\/div>\n
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I wanted to share this full concert video of The Bill Evans Trio,<\/strong>\u00a0from London in 1965. Some may question colorizing a B&W film but the BBC camera work is very good, with striking angles abounding. <\/span><\/div>\n
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Evans was one of the greatest and most influential of modern jazz pianists. He expanded the instrument’s harmonic palette while staying largely within the middle of the keyboard, like a magician pulling marvelous things out of a deep, dark mysterious hat. He forged an extraordinary exploration of internal, inverted and augmented voicings, very ambidextrous, two-handed phrasing, and a rare impressionistic touch, sometimes moody and murky, other times crystalline. Yet he was fully capable of robust, singing swinging.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The bassist is Chuck Israels and the drummer is Larry Bunker.<\/div>\n
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The host is\u00a0Humphrey Littleton, a British journalist. He has an excellent quip, after the trio interprets “Summertime.” This trio is a reason why many musicians have come away from hearing it “poised between elation and utter despair.”<\/div>\n
The concert opens with a superb Miles Davis composition, “Nardis,” that Evans made his own, and strangely, Miles never recorded.<\/div>\n
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Plagued with a chronic heroin addictions, Bill Evans died at age 50, making this video all the more rare and precious.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Enjoy, and may Bill Evans live forever, to let our hearts sing. 1<\/div>\n
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