The Universal Mind of Bill Evans

[arensky]

This film of Bill Evans being interviewed by his brother is a fascinating look inside a remarkable musical mind. There's a lot wisdom and good advice here, and it's not just about jazz, although that is it's focus. Watch all five parts 
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm6V7bWnVpw

[michel dvorsky]

It's enlightening, indeed.  Bill Evans is one of the most harmonically interesting Jazz pianists of the century.  Gould called him the Scriabin of Jazz. Love Bill Evans.

[arensky]

Part 1 "is no longer available" according to Youtube. The others still are, watch before it's gone.

EDIT Yay it's back 

[Petter]

Another interesting Bill Evans related series from an interview with Margaret Marian McPartland. It clashes a bit when they play together but if you´re a fan you will probably like this. The reflection in D by Bill Evans solo from that disc is really something.

here´s the overdubbed version of the same song 1978.

[arensky]

I'd noticed this Piano Jazz interview but didn't watch it until today. He's so self effacing and modest for a living legend, which he was. Some writers say he had an inferiority complex but I don't get that from his tone of voice and manner of speaking, he's just straightforward and logical, almost frighteningly so. Just a humble person aware of his place, without letting it go to his head. Quite refreshing.

"Reflections in D" is beautiful, as always.

[argerichfan]

Wow, thanks for the reminder.  I quite needed that fix last night.  Evans is... well, superb.  He takes me into areas that are impossible to describe...