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Bill Evans

BILL EVANS: ‘Everybody Digs Bill Evans’ (Riverside/Contemporary Records)

1959 was a remarkable year in the history of modern jazz because it yielded four highly influential and enduringly popular albums: Miles Davis’ Kind Of Blue, Charles Mingus’ Mingus Ah Um, Dave Brubeck’s Time...

BILL EVANS TRIO: ‘Waltz For Debby’ (OJC/Craft Recordings)

Bill Evans brought a new sensibility and fresh musical conception to jazz piano. Beginning his career in the late 1950s, his distinctive style was defined by delicate crystalline melodies and pastel-hued harmonies, reflecting the...

IT’S SPRING … HONEST

Jazz giant BILL EVANS died in September 1980. The following year his acclaimed album ‘You Must Believe In Spring’ was released. The album was actually recorded in 1977 and it was the last recording...