Bill Evans - solo - in memory of his father

[@snaaptaker]

From the Town Hall Concert, NYC-1966. I was there. What a glorious evening it was.☺

[@Planthier76]

A dream which I could never realize :)

[@snaaptaker]

***** Yeah, right. I'll never forget that hat. ☺

[@intuitiondigression2174]

Are you serious? You were there indeed? This is as close to paradise as anything may be. Please, tell us something about that night, anything you want, just to grasp a feel of it.

[@spensert4933]

I imagine you could here a pin drop.

[@normsantos1274]

every year my wife and i make a trek to nyc, to the village vanguard, to town hall,with the silly quest of somehow taking part in the shadows of a now distant past. it is satisfying to some extent, but to have been there...

[@ciccio3jacks]

This was Bill Evan's NYC concert hall debut (he had been doing only clubs for nearly a decade). HIs father had passed away a couple of weeks earlier the same month. He would play this composition only one other time in his career; on a television appearance in 1968 just after Robert Kennedy was assassinated.

[@concertoldham]

Bill Evans' music touches my soul in a way that no other musician can.

[@amcamc4809]

In the first few minutes of this beautiful piece the influence of Satie is quite evident.

[@spensert4933]

Almost open fifths, like a church bell at the beginning, may be unusual for Bill ... then up into the heavens of clusters, clouds, he was a total master of.

[@lucianobenotto3700]

"Prologue" (0:00-2:39) [first recording] "Story Line" aka "Re: Person I Knew" (2:40-7:30) [first recorded on the album Moon Beams] "Turn Out the Stars" (7:31-12:28) [first recording] "Epilogue" (12:29-13:09) [first recorded on the album Everybody Digs Bill Evans]

[@zertculi-83.06]

RIP dad. I wonder if you can play this in heaven, I'm sure you can

[@janetpearcejanet9921]

Bill Evans was my father Tom's great idol who was also a wonderful pianist...this evokes his memory

[@dkj4183]

I indeed feel those feelings as well for my father...

[@安藤寛史]

I remember good old days.

[@Deluca-Piano]

Wow Turn out the stars is crazy good.

[@ciprianoderore4792]

BILL WAS THE SATIE OF JAZZ WORLD

[@benjaminschmale1643]

That's a perfect description!

[@brothertaro2008]

You certainly hear that in the opening here ... but so many influences come together in Bill's playing: Bach, Chopin, Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Nat King Cole, Bud Powell, Lennie Tristano -- to name a few

[@bobd6421]

would do anything to be there when this stuff went down irreplaceable moment in history beauty beyond comprehension

[@charleshiort7153]

To the father I never met!

[@FabioZurita]

on 7:31 Turn out the stars

[@Pedraga]

Acording to the documentary "Time Remembered", 'Turn out to the stars' was made for his father after he past away.. By the way, rare recording

[@bobd6421]

magnificent beyond words or thoughts BRAVO BRAVO BRAVO

[@spensert4933]

God damn the way that 2nd part takes off at 2:56.

[@thomasdimattia3556]

This will always be the greatest eulogy for a father in solo jazz piano. I am thrilled to have lived to hear such greatness.

[@ivanalakatosova8377]

u are my best jazz pianist ever this solo is beautiful the chords i feel is 2 much fantasy there like it omg i wish to play like this but learn from you

[@donaldscherzi169]

So beautiful. Really beautiful.

[@dantedanubio]

Bellisimo

[@paolofranceschi6874]

My god, the beginning is really debussy... great bill!

[@frankserpico2544]

the rest of us are mere mortals..... BILL ❤

[@ruivog]

Wonderful.

[@eugeniosalexander4486]

that must have been hard for him to play. seems he loved his father too much.

[@null8295]

i want a transcription of that

[@Thanks-Tokyo]

Amazing

[@drwalifchbeir4205]

Love you

[@thomasdimattia3556]

P.S. Thank you Jack Reilly. I think of you often. I am now singing in opera.

[@terenciojazzpiano7794]

Jack Reilly told me he was in audience at this 1966 Town Hall Concert.Certain prose passages and chorales in his Bill Evans harmony books seem on a similar level to this level of inspiration...and Universal Mind.Which is also at work in the music on Reilly's own recordings, which Evans fans should seek out-well worth the search.

[@doloresdevera433]

❤

[@HugeOB]

2:40 Re : Person I Knew

[@brothertaro2008]

Retitled here as "Story Line"

[@jetherocardoso]

Almost a god...