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William John "Bill" Evans (pronunciation: /ˈɛvəns/, August 16, 1929 – September 15, 1980) was an American jazz pianist and composer who mostly worked in a trio setting. Evans' 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.
Born in Plainfield, New Jersey, he was classically trained, and studied at Southeastern Louisiana University. In 1955, he moved to New York, where he worked with bandleader and theorist George Russell. In 1958, Evans joined Miles Davis's sextet, where he was to have a profound influence. In 1959, the band, then immersed in modal jazz, recorded Kind of Blue, the best-selling jazz album of all time.
In late 1959, Evans left the Miles Davis band and began his career as a leader with Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian, a group now regarded as a seminal modern jazz trio. In 1961, ten days after recording the highly acclaimed Sunday at the Village Vanguard and Waltz for Debby, LaFaro died in a car accident. After months of seclusion, Evans re-emerged with a new trio, featuring bassist Chuck Israels.
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The Village Vanguard is a jazz club located at Seventh Avenue South in Greenwich Village, New York City. The club was opened on February 22, 1935, by Max Gordon. At first, it featured many forms of music, such as folk music and beat poetry, but it switched to an all-jazz format in 1957.
For years prior to 1935, the Vanguard’s proprietor, Max Gordon, strove to run a successful nightclub. His first attempt at a Village Vanguard opened in 1934 on Charles Street and Greenwich Avenue. Gordon intended for the Vanguard to be a forum for poets and artists as well as a site for musical performances. Yet, due to insufficient facilities, Gordon was refused a cabaret license from the police department and was unable to create the club that he originally envisioned. In his autobiography, Gordon writes that “I knew if I was ever to get anywhere in the nightclub business, I’d have to find another place with two johns, two exits, two hundred feet away from a church or synagogue or school, and with the rent under $100 a month.” In 1934, Gordon moved his business and purchased the Golden Triangle, a speakeasy on 178 Seventh Avenue.
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Take-Two was founded in 1993 by Ryan Brant, the son of Peter Brant, newsprint heir and co-owner of Interview. In March 1998, Take-Two strengthened itself in a number of areas by acquiring the BMG Interactive unit from Bertelsmann AG for approximately $14.2 million. Take 2 published a game called "Rats!" (Reservoir Rat) in 1998, developed by Tarantula Games. Later BMG Interactive was re-formed into Rockstar Games in late 1998.
Actors: Kjell Bergqvist (actor), Jessica Ask (producer), Danny Boushebel (actor), Viking Almquist (actor), Åsa Mossberg (editor), Alex Kruz (actor), Per Fly (director), Rob Morgan (actor), Kicki Ilander (costume designer), Sverrir Gudnason (actor), Silvana Jakich (actress), Lillie Aleksandrov (miscellaneous crew), Cecilia Ljung (actress), Jonas Rydergren (miscellaneous crew), Rikard Andersson (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: "Monica Z" is a biopic about the Swedish singer and actress Monica Zetterlund focusing on her journey from a job as a telephone operator in a small town in Sweden to stardom in the clubs of New York and Stockholm. During her career, Zetterlund recorded numerous jazz albums and appeared in 10 films. In 1963 she represented Sweden in the Eurovision song contest and in 1972 won Sweden's national film prize - a Guldbagge - for best supporting actress for her role in "The Emigrants" ("Utvandrarna"). Scoliosis forced Zetterlund to retired from performing in 1999. She died six years later after a fire in her apartment in Stockholm.
Keywords: 1960s, balancing-family-and-career, biopic, double-bass, ella-fitzgerald, eurovision-song-contest, father-daughter-relationship, female-singer, mother-daughter-relationship, nightclubActors: Linnea Quigley (actress), Bob Cook (director), Bob Cook (actor), Bob Cook (writer), Bob Cook (producer), John Weyrick (actor), Rick Warren (producer), Rick Warren (producer), Buddy Dolan (actor), Cynthia Beckert (actress), Cat Eberwine (actress), Russell Rose (actor), Doris White (costume designer), Al Nagy (actor), Rob Hershberger (producer),
Plot: The Evans' family vacation becomes a nightmare when a gang of cut-throats raid their trailer and camp site. Witnessing the murder of her mother Dana Miles-Evans and her step-father William Evans, Cassy Miles attempts to rescue her step-sister Ellen and avenge her family. The gang known just as ANIMALS have raped, tortured, and murdered in a crime spree that covers three states. Headed by their cold blooded leader MF the ANIMALS meet their match when Cassy seeks the help of Zeke Thompson, a former Navy Seal and friend of the family. Action up-stages horror, however, when the ANIMALS shoot it out with Zeke and Cassy in a climactic finale that turns the hunters into the hunted.
Keywords: independent-filmActors: Drew Barrymore (actress), Ross Hunter (producer), Stuart Margolin (director), Joan Bennett (actress), Richard Bracken (editor), Lew Ayres (actor), Hayden Rorke (actor), Cindy Williams (actress), Scott Brady (actor), Eileen Heckart (actress), David Rose (composer), Kurt Kasznar (actor), Sidney Wolinsky (editor), Kristine DeBell (actress), Norman Bartold (actor),
Plot: A young woman from a suburban neighborhood and a wealthy law professor fall in love, despite coming from different backgrounds. Their love leads them to marriage and the birth of their child, and things go well until tragedy strikes.
Keywords: alcoholism, attorney, marriageActors: Gail Palmer (writer), Gail Palmer (director), Harry Mohney (producer), Bill Murphy (actor), Tony Rizzi (actor), Shorty Roberts (actor), Dan Timens (actor), Coke Cain (actor), Lisa Baker (actress), Linda Hoffman (actress), Black Orchid (actress), Stitch Umbas (actor), Bruce Darcy (actor), Duke Johnson (actor),
Genres: Adult, Thriller,Actors: Wendy Hughes (actress), Michael Pate (actor), John Hargreaves (actor), Tony Barry (actor), Charles 'Bud' Tingwell (actor), Tim Robertson (actor), Norman Kaye (actor), Leon Lissek (actor), Graeme Blundell (actor), Gerard Kennedy (actor), Rowena Wallace (actress), Tony Bonner (actor), Reg Gorman (actor), Jonathan Hardy (actor), Helen Morse (actress),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Benny Bartlett (actor), Don Beddoe (actor), Ray Bennett (actor), Paul Bryar (actor), Charles Cane (actor), Cliff Clark (actor), G. Pat Collins (actor), Clancy Cooper (actor), Joseph Crehan (actor), Don DeFore (actor), Don DeFore (actor), Eddie Dunn (actor), William Forrest (actor), Joseph Forte (actor), Morris Ankrum (actor),
Plot: The US secret service goes after a counterfeit ring, whose engraver Eugene Deane has covertly constructed his plates while serving a life sentence in San Quentin. In order to infiltrate the gang, federal agent John Riggs poses as an Eastern kingpin who wants to purchase a large quantity of the fake currency. During his investigations he falls in love with beautiful Nora Craig...
Keywords: counterfeiting, number-in-title, phone-number-in-titleActors: Darrell Calker (composer), Lane Bradford (actor), Sandy Sanders (actor), Carl Sepulveda (actor), Forrest Taylor (actor), Lewis D. Collins (director), Marin Sais (actress), Peggy Stewart (actress), Bartlett A. Carre (producer), Jim Bannon (actor), John Hart (actor), Whitey Hughes (actor), Ray Jones (actor), Emmett Lynn (actor), Lee Roberts (actor),
Plot: Red Ryder gets a telegram from his old friend Dan O'Connor asking for help in his fight against Faro Savage and his gang of rustlers. A gun dropped by Faro during a rustling raid makes Red and Sheila O'Connor, Dan's daughter, think they have ample proof against Faro but they are stymied by the law. Buckskin Blodgett and the Duchess, Red's aunt, find the body of O'Connor who was killed when Faro's men sent the sheriff out on a ruse. Sheila, discovered while rifling Faros office for evidence, escapes but not before she is recognized. Faro kills one of his own henchmen and then frames Sheila for the murder. Red and Little Beaver set out to clear Sheila and to try to find evidence against Faro and his gang.
Keywords: 1890s, ambush, aunt, b-movie, b-western, based-on-comic-strip, bow-and-arrow, cattle-rancher, cattle-rustler, cattle-rustlingActors: Edgar G. Ulmer (director), Carl Pierson (editor), Lee 'Lasses' White (actor), Margia Dean (actress), Molly Lamont (actress), Shirley Ulmer (miscellaneous crew), Martin Mooney (writer), Raymond L. Schrock (writer), Alan Dinehart (actor), Joseph H. Lewis (director), Jerome Cowan (actor), William Frawley (actor), Eddie Kane (actor), Roscoe Karns (actor), Jack Boyle (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Musical,Actors: Carl Pierson (editor), Oscar O'Shea (actor), Sheila Bromley (actress), Lita Chevret (actress), June Gittelson (actress), Florence Lake (actress), Vivien Oakland (actress), Marjorie Reynolds (actress), John W. Krafft (writer), Jean Yarbrough (director), Monte Blue (actor), Dell Henderson (actor), Al Hill (actor), Donald Kerr (actor), Dennis Moore (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: William Fox (miscellaneous crew), Buck Jones (actor), Lucy Beaumont (actress), Marian Nixon (actress), Richard Harding Davis (writer), William A. Wellman (director), Brooks Benedict (actor), Eugene B. Lewis (writer), Al Fremont (actor), Louis King (actor), Charles McHugh (actor), Mary Warren (actress), Eileen O'Malley (actress),
Plot: Andy McGee joins the fire-department with intentions of becoming as good a fireman as his father who died in the line of duty. While on duty in the theatre district, Andy meets Agnes Evans, a specialty dancer and Cupid shoots an arrow into his heart, but disillusion and pain follow when he learns she is the wife of a worthless drunk. Later, a fire breaks out in the Evans home and, after rescuing Agnes, Andy must make the decision whether or not to risk his life to go back into the inferno to rescue Bill Evans, crazed by liquor and responsible for the fire.
Keywords: 1920s, abusive-husband, alcoholic, archive-footage, b-movie, cigarette-smoking, damsel-in-distress, dancer, dancing, danger
Bill Evans - Sunday at the Village Vanguard Released 2014-06-06 on Not Now Music Buy this album: http://snip.ftpromo.net/villagevanguard 1. 00:00:00 Bill Evans Gloria's Step (Take 2) (Take 2) 2. 00:06:07 Bill Evans My Man's Gone Now 3. 00:12:33 Bill Evans Solar 4. 00:21:28 Bill Evans Alice in Wonderland (Take 2) (Take 2) 5. 00:30:02 Bill Evans All of You (Take 2) (Take 2) 6. 00:38:22 Bill Evans Jade Visions (Take 2) (Take 2) 7. 00:42:07 Bill Evans Israel 8. 00:48:21 Bill Evans Haunted Heart 9. 00:51:50 Bill Evans Beautiful Love (Take 2) (Take 2) 10. 00:56:57 Bill Evans Elsa 11. 01:02:09 Bill Evans Nardis 12. 01:08:01 Bill Evans How Deep Is the Ocean ? 13. 01:11:36 Bill Evans I Wish I Knew 14. 01:16:18 Bill Evans Sweet and Lovely Anyone listening to contemporary jazz piano is very likely ...
00:00 Danny Boy (Frederick Weatherly) - 10:41 10:41 Like Someone in Love (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 6:27 17:09 In Your Own Sweet Way . John McLaughlin: Time Remembered: John McLaughlin Plays Bill Evans (1993) By WALTER KOLOSKY, Published: November 20, 2002 John McLaughlin: . Bill Evans Quintet - Time Remembered (1962) Personnel: Zoot Sims (tenor sax), Bill Evans (piano), Jim Hall (guitar), Ron Carter (bass), Philly Joe Jones (drums) . Album The Sesjun Radio Shows broadcast live on December 13, 1973 De Boerenhofstede Laren, The Netherlands Bill Evans- piano Eddie Gomez- double .
The Legendary Sessions of Bill Evans & Chet Baker recorded in 1959 New York. Personnel: Bill Evans (p) Chet Baker (tr) Zoot Sims (asax) Pepper Adams (bsax) Herbie Mann (tsax) Kenny Burrell (gr) Paul Chambers (b) Philly Joe Jones (dr) Released: February 2010 Recorded:Dec. 30, 1958 (1-3, 5-7, 10) & January 19, 1959 (4, 8, 9) July 22, 1959 (11-14) & July 21, 1959 (15) New York Label: American Jazz Classics 99 005 0:00 "Alone Together" 6:56 "How High The Moon" 10:33 "It Neve Entered My Mind" 15:11 "'Tis Autumn" 20:29 "If You Could See Me Now" 25:47 "September Song" 28:54 "You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To" 33:26 "Time on My Hands" 37:58 "You and the Night and the Music" 42:06 "Early Morning Mood" 51:08 "Show Me" 57:36 "I Talk to the Trees" 1:03:28 "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" 1:08:03 "I C...
Moon Beams is a 1962 album by jazz musician Bill Evans. Track listing: 1. Re: Person I Knew 2. Polka Dots and Moonbeams 3. I Fall in Love Too Easily 4. Stairway to the Stars 5. If You Could See Me Now 6. It Might as Well Be Spring 7. In Love in Vain 8. Very Early Personnel: Bill Evans - Piano Chuck Israels - Bass Paul Motian - Drums
Bill Evans : piano,Larry bunker : drum , Chuck Israel : bass.
Sunday at the Village Vanguard is a 1961 album by jazz pianist and composer Bill Evans. The album is routinely ranked as one of the best live jazz recordings of all time. Personnel: Bill Evans (p) Scott LaFaro (b) Paul Motian (dr) Released: Early October 1961 Recorded: June 25, 1961 Label: Riverside Producer: Orrin Keepnews "Gloria's Step" (take 2) (Scott LaFaro) "My Man's Gone Now" (George Gershwin) "Solar" (Miles Davis) "Alice in Wonderland" (take 2) (Sammy Fain) "All of You" (take 2) (Cole Porter) "Jade Visions" (take 2) (Scott LaFaro) "Gloria's Step" (take 3) "Alice in Wonderland" (take 1) "All of You" (take 3) "Jade Visions" (take 1) Sunday at the Village Vanguard was recorded live on June 25, 1961 at the Village Vanguard in New York City over five recorded sessions (2 ma...
You Must Believe in Spring is an album by jazz pianist Bill Evans, recorded by Evans, bassist Eddie Gómez, and drummer Eliot Zigmund in August 1977 and released after Evans' death in September 1980. It was Evans's last recording sessions done with Gomez on bass, who left after eleven years with Evans to pursue other musical projects. Evans also recorded the title song as a duet with jazz vocalist Tony Bennett on their second album of duets titled Together Again (1977) Track listing 1."B Minor Waltz (For Ellaine)" (Evans) - 0:00 2."You Must Believe in Spring" (Michel Legrand) - 3:18 3."Gary's Theme" (Gary McFarland) - 9:04 4."We Will Meet Again (For Harry)" (Evans) - 13:27 5."The Peacocks" (Jimmy Rowles) - 17:32 6."Sometime Ago" (Sergio Mihanovich) - 23:35 7."Theme from M*A*S*H(Suicide Is...
Alone is an album by jazz musician Bill Evans, recorded in late 1968 for Verve Records. The year of release is unclear, even though a release in the first months of 1970 is a strong possibility.[1] The Grammy Award-winning Alone was Bill Evans' first single piano solo album following in the footsteps of his 1963 Verve session Conversations With Myself (three pianos overdubbed) and his 1967 Further Conversations with Myself, also on Verve (two pianos overdubbed). Personnel: Bill Evans (p) Released: Possibly early 1970 Recorded: September 23, 1968 October 8 & 21, 1968 Webster Hall, New York City Label: Verve V6-8792 Producer: Helen Keane Original LP: 0:00 "Here's That Rainy Day" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke) 5:21 "A Time for Love" (Johnny Mandel, Paul Francis Webster) 10:36 "Midnight M...
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Bill Evans Chuck Israel Larry Bunker BBC Studios London, March 19th 1965
Bill rehearsing for a concert with Monica Zetterlund swedish singer, and Alex Riel danish drummer in Copenhagen, Denmark. 1966 Oct. 25 Personnel: Bill Evans (p) Eddie Gómez (b) Alex Riel (dr) Video is from Alex Riel's private achive. All rights reserved to Alex Riel and the Danish Broadcasting Corporation
The Bill Evans Album is an album by the jazz pianist Bill Evans, released in 1971. At the Grammy Awards of 1972, The Bill Evans Album won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Solo and the Best Jazz Performance by a Group awards.. Personnel: Bill Evans (p) Eddie Gómez (bs) Marty Morrell (dr) Released: January 10, 2006 Recorded: February 6, 1972 Label: - 0:00 "Présentation André Francis" timestamps coming soon This compilation collects the complete February 6, 1972 concert by the Bill Evans Trio that was first aired by A la Masion de la Radio in Paris and subsequently issued on two individual CDs by France's Concert. The pianist, joined by bassist Eddie Gomez and drummer Marty Morell, is in top form throughout the performance, even if the first half of the concert is a bit laid-bac...
Bill Evans: Piano Marc Johnson: Bass Joe LaBarbera: Drums
Bill Evans - Live at Music Inn, Rome, Italy, 1979 BILL EVANS - Piano MARC JOHNSON - Bass JOE LABARBERA - Drums 1. My Man's Gone Now - 6:30 (George & Ira Gershwin) 2. Bill's Hit Tune - 7:30 (Bill Evans) 3. Sugar Plum - 6:00 (Bill Evans) 4. Laurie - 8:00 (Bill Evans) 5. The Two Lonely People - 6:20 (Bill Evans) 6. Polka Dots and Moonbeams - 2:40 (Burke-Van Heusen) 7. My Romance - 7:30 (Rodgers-Hart) Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship,and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.
Chris Albertson on Tuesday, September 21, 2010 Says: This interview with Bill was taped in 1972, when he brought his trio to my weekly TV show, The Jazz Set. Bill and I first met at Riverside Records in 1960. Back then, he looked more like an accountant than a jazz musician, but times change and we try to keep up by adopting trendy looks that eventually become laughable. Here, our long hair is a dead giveaway and my outfit is cringe-inducing. For some reason, I am not smoking during this interview, but most of the shows (we did 26, I think) show me puffing away on that Tareyton with the smoke all but obscuring the face of my guest. Giving it up about 35 years ago was one the wisest decisions I ever made.
Extracted from the movie "The Universal Mind of Bill Evans - Creative Process and Self-Teaching". In this part, Bill talks about how to deal with obstacles, and how to build one's vocabulary step-by-step. Take a look at my other youtube page at www.youtube.com/miscvanguard for lots of other videos.
Bill Evans Trio At Helsinki, Finland 1970, interview excerpts
For the context of this video, please see this blog posting.... http://www.animationarchive.org/?p=1413 This video is presented as a part of an educational program by the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational institution in Burbank, CA.
Sorry about all of the hiss. It is a transfer from an old cassette tape. All photographs copyright David Bennett Thomas.
Bill Evans Radio Interview—On Nov. 14, 1976, James Farber and Larry Goldberg, two 22-year-old residents of Madison, Wis., interviewed jazz pianist Bill Evans on the radio. It was the night before Evans, bassist Eddie Gomez and drummer Eliot Zigmund performed at Madison’s Memorial Union Theater. Evans was on tour, and the interview took place at the studio of WORT-FM in Madison. For the full story, visit JazzWax.com: http://bit.ly/1IHNzlc
Short interview with Miles Davis about Kind of Blue and the contribution of Bill Evans. I made an intro with an aborted session track. Then the short interview with Miles and concluding with the intro of "All Blues" I got several interviews from the late Brian Hennessey, Evans friend, writer for Jazz Journal International and founder of the The Bill Evans Memorial Library before he died September 4, 2014. From his material I make some videos.
A great interview between Marian McPartland and Bill Evans.
La mente universal de Bill Evans Subtitulado
Bill Evans/Everybody Digs Bill Evans Bill Evans - piano solo
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Seven little girls sittin' in the back seat
Huggin and a'kissin with Fred
I said, why don't one of you come up and sit beside me
And this is what the seven girls said
All together now, one, two, three
Keep you mind on your drivin'
Keep you hands on the wheel
Keep your snoopy eyes on the road ahead
We're havin' fun sittin' in the back seat
Kissin' and a'huggin with Fred
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Drove through the town, drove through the country
Showed 'em how a motor could go
I said, how do you like my triple carburetor
And one of them whispered low
All together now, one, two, three
Keep you mind on your drivin'
Keep you hands on the wheel
Keep your snoopy eyes on the road ahead
We're havin' fun sittin' in the back seat
Kissin' and a'huggin with Fred
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Seven little girls smoochin' in the back seat
Every one in love with Fred
I said "you don't need me, I'll get off at my house"
And this is what the seven girls said
All together now, one, two, three
Keep you mind on your drivin'
Keep you hands on the wheel
Keep your snoopy eyes on the road ahead
We're havin' fun sittin' in the back seat
Kissin' and a'huggin with Fred
All of them in love with Fred
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Wish that I could be like Fred