Back in October, I wrote about Bill Evans' Alone (Again), which I said at the time was my favorite solo album by the pianist. I have since reconsidered and have a new entry (two, in fact). More in a ...
Bill Evans is one of the giants of jazz piano. Born in Plainfield, N.J., in 1929, Evans grew up watching his mother and older brother play the piano. At age 6, he began his own classical piano lessons ...
Like many controversial films or books that take some effort or expense to understand properly, some records are better known by their reputation than by their actual merit. This particularly unwieldy ...
Bill Evans ranks as one of jazz music’s pivotal performers. A graduate of Southeastern Louisiana College (now University) in Hammond, Evans was a prolific pianist, composer and recording artist. “In ...
Six years after Concord Records released the massive 61-track “Everybody Still Digs Bill Evans: A Career Retrospective (1956-1980),” the label has issued a new collection by the late jazz piano great ...