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bill's brother isn't listening. that's a problem.

This is so good that I as non musician almost totally grasps it. Frighteningly I feel like I can do some of it very slowly myself. Sure not the same feel or tone but a rudimentary sound and time of some of it.

Fuck boring ass bill Evans the jazz snob. I love Louis Armstrong. That's honest music. Bill Evans is pure bullshit.

RIP John! You are missed!

As somebody who fell hard for felt improvisation and drifted away from theoretical frames, this is a wake up call. I might be able to freely explore countless possibilities with my instruments, but then it's really hard to bring all of that home into a composition.

I heard Lyle Mays say that Bills Evans was the only pianist worth listening to. He and Pat Metheny wrote a song in his memory called "September 15".

Every time I struggle with learning something, I think of Bill Evans.

OMG. To paraphrase Dave Grohl. "You start a band and you suck for a long time and then something good happens!"

I think that by keeping it simple and real he means that one should play what he/she hears in their mind instead of running through scales or playing random licks that we don’t really understand. Playing what you hear or sing in your mind is the realest expression of one’s musicality. It’s difficult to get to that level of course. This is what I absorbed from what he is saying.

wish i'd seen this when i was 13 - should be on the classical piano syllabus - no actually syllabus for all 13 year olds

Correct if I’m wrong but the 6/8 to 7/8 in metropolis is the same as the intro pattern in Dance of Eternity?

The “simple” solo that he played just to illustrate a point is just so good it’s insane

I’d be lucky to even approximate his simple

He struggles to simulate the vague approximation ha. But what a wonderful lesson for us in all things. Fascinating how the host misses the point, saying he doesn't have time for fundamentals, so he must overplay.

Punk rock never felt more ungga-bungga

It’s like I either do as Bill suggests or fail to ever become the musician I want to be.

I think it’s apparent by the verbosity explosions used, that the critiques used here are in fact part of the performance.

It’s very interesting his perception about how to improvise for just one or 2 musical phrases ! 👏🤩🤍🤍

This guy was incredible! But notice how he is losing his teeth. These geniuses deserved to make more money.

Most insufferable band of all time.

Proof that Dave Portnoy was the world's first quad-core hyper-threading musical processor.

Hey didn’t somebody name Chopin say the same thing?

He would have made a great college professor.

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This is incredible and applying it everyday is the key .Beautiful video .

Those grooves from A Change of Seasons is so unconventional and proves how creative Mike is. No other drummer would have played it like that.

Gary Novak man...

The first rule in jazz club is you do not talk about jazz club.

"Simple is the key." Its the best design model when free-styling. It gives other musicians ideas. Just do it weird and unorthodox to the ear (here and there (every 8 measures or so)). Great vid. How the heck am I 16 years late!

Is it too much to expect the dopey cameraman to keep both of Allan's hands in shot, especially the left one, all the time he's playing 🙄 But oh look someone's being creative, a shot of the bass players left arm as seen looking through the drummers hands & sticks. Moronic 🙄 His tone is incredible on this amazing solo. Searing I've got an ibanez ah10 holdsworth & a Carvin holdsworth fatboy. Plus a kemper.. Still can't sound quite like him 4:28 8:01

I remember first hearing this interview back in 2007 or so and thinking I already knew he was musically brilliant but brah, he’s a genius. And I believe that the interviewer is his brother who committed suicide eventually. Very unfortunate case of severe depression, both brothers had issues. Bill struggled with various addictions.

Images and Words and Awake are amazing albums

I very much like this approach. It leads to the real thing, the true nature of things, instead of an imitation.

Why does simply watching a genius at work make so many people tear up? 😢

Love his ability to verbalize, with clarity, what the learning process was for him, and what he thinks it should be for people in general. He communicates so well… as if he has thought about it all before. Most people have never thought so deeply about such issues.

“Better to play something SIMPLE, like….” 😂

I’ve got a couple kids and they aren't into jazz. But I played Bill Evans for them, and they say, 'Jesus, that's pretty good.' So I think it's great that people are just rediscovering Bill Evans, and I want people to rediscover Bill Evans. I think he's a great artist, and I think more people should listen to him and respect the beauty that he was able to create.

Bill Evans: “Professional discipline: people learn to throw that switch. As a matter of fact, there’s plenty of times when you just feel like 'I can’t possibly get up there and play.' But as soon as you get up there, when the moment comes - snap - you have that discipline. There’s a professional level of creativity that I can depend on, and which is satisfactory for public performance. And that I can depend on, when I throw the switch. But those other high levels, which happen just occasionally, are really thrilling. You don’t know when they’re gonna come.”

Bill Evans has Always been my favorit jazz piano player ( i espacially love the album Symbiosis) alone with Lyle Mays. RIP

This also perfectly explains why AI is bad.

Jeeez that playing qt th end 🥹😭😭

Me: “honest and true yeah! The rudimentary simple and real stuff!” Also me: *buys bill Evans Omnibook* and plays his exact transcriptions

Priceless - that pastiche of a pastiche 🤣🤣🤣🤣 - and at the end the restraint of Bill Evans not to strangle him. Advanced fundamentals not BS. BS is always BS 😁

The other guy is Bill Evans' brother

A small detail worth noting regarding portnoys playing of the 3/4, 9/8 change of seasons pattern is his inclusion of an open hi hat on count 9 at certain junctures of the groove sequence. It's actually rather difficult considering the placement within the groove added with the limb indepence it asks for to execute it confidently and musically. Portnoys work is still full of surprises years later

What was it about Jazz greats and Heroin / cocaine addiction?

What a legend.

Mr. Evans-still alive in many musicians, that is his legacy-we should all do so well. Some of his most beautiful playing-as suggested here-not what you play, but what you don't play, listen to his intros on Kind of Blue with Miles Davis-Flamenco Sketches, Blue in Green, So What. He is composing a mini masterpiece while he is improvising! His thought process-how evolved it must have been. 2-3 measures of his playing-can be an entire study in harmony, voice leading and just plain gorgeous playing. And then when as a newbie I might think-well he was basically a ballad, chordal player-he plays a few measures of "bebop" lines-if you can call it that-and there goes that idea. The word "distillation" comes to mind. He could take an idea, distill its essential beauty and then create a live composition around it.

"Keep A Flowing Living Metre"...🤔