Nabil BERERICHE Yes, I agree! In a number of cultures and languages, Hawai’i for example, there is just one word the two. The two are so inseparable as to be the same thing.
Such a cool atmosphere, it feels almost like a scene from some european art house film, but it really is a real interview! Honestly I am flabbergasted how cool everyone and everything is. For a small public broadcasting company YLE (who filmed this) did a marvelous job with Bill Evans trio living room concert.
True. Keep in mind, this was in a wealthy home in one of the most exclusive locations in Finland. YLE is not as small as you think. They are often a major player in some relatively big internatonal productions.
That was back when 'cool' meant a cool disposition - not disturbed or excited by anything. Then the 80s came and 'cool' turned into some kind of Bobcat Goldthwait/Bart Simpson "Hey dude!" excitable character. I prefer original cool.
Bill Evans had a light, lyrical touch that was so beautiful, it made it seem like you could hear the gates of heaven. But like so many tragic artists, he died way too young 😢 Rest In Peace Bill Evans 🙏🏾🎹
Most musicians, and particularly jazz musicians, find it difficult if not impossible to speak clearly and incisively about their music and what they seek to achieve in it. Bill Evans was that rare exception.
Evans open the big gate of jazz music for me. When I was a child, I remembered the first time I hear the sound from "Autumn Leave", and I immediately know this is what I'm looking for all the time. And after heard many jazz records and playing, Bill Evans is still my number one jazz piano player. You just can't get tired of listening to those magical note, one after another.
I'm very impressed at the high quality of this video. Especially since this came from the 70's! The compression is nowhere near as bad all the other Bill Evans videos. Thanks for posting this! Bill Evans is the man!
He is a good interview. A lot of musicians do not interview very well. This is around the time I was first getting into Jazz, He liked Bach as a favorite, He liked Classical and Debussy in the Impressionist period.
I’ve heard his music for so many years, and I became a fan as a teenager when I learned that he was trained here in Louisiana at Southeastern Louisiana University. (He died shortly after I discovered his music so I never got to see him perform live, unfortunately). So, after 40+ years of appreciating this man’s remarkable talent and grace, I finally get to hear him speak. Hear his voice. And I’m damn impressed - to paraphrase what someone else commented here - he was a graceful, elegant speaker - just as his playing was. What a unique talent, time to listen to more Bill Evans Trio. Thank you for posting this! Literally the first time I’ve heard the man talk... so cool. This is why I love CZcams...
well, this was a pleasure to listen to. he seems like a nice quite sensible guy as expressed by his piano play as enriching the minds of his fellows by sharing his insights of beeing ecstatic with music. yum yum, thank you =)
Wow, I think he really captures the modern predicament in popular (spotify artists, though I don’t necessarily mean any shade!) music today when he articulates the danger of expressing feelings that are too “everyday” (~7:40ish mark). There is such an emphasis on expression over and against aesthetic sensibility, or maybe craftsmanship, more precisely put. Such profound insight and kinship with the nature of music!
I didn't understand his use of "everyday" in the sentence about the dangers of the avant-garde being "too personal". By that, I thought he meant that avant-gardists were running into the usual avant-garde problem of not being "everyday" enough. Surely the "everyday" has little or nothing to do with the "personal"? The "everyday" usually refers to what's usual or 'normal'; something an avant-gardist flees from.
wbx he wasn't trying to be deep, he was just being truthful. If you're constantly thinking about technique then there's no bandwith left for expression.
This was filmed in my hometown of Helsinki almost 20 years before I was born, I love Bill Evans and his approach to the piano, that's some very intelligent words on avant-garde jazz as well (referred to as free nowadays?)
The last thing he said was really important: that you develop by playing in front of audiences and with peers constantly. (Not by watching youtube videos.)
"I think, what we looked for is that: Freedom with responsibility. In other words, there is no requirement to do anything at a certain time, but we like to feel like that we're responsible to the total performance."
Bill Evans has an individual and unique quality about him . It resonates from him...it resonates out of him whilst he speaks and plays. To this day , the Gold standard! 🏆🥇🏆🥇🏆🥇🏆🥇🏆🥇🏆🥇🏆
Marty Morell is still around. In fact, I'm going to see him in concert tomorrow night here in Orlando. He's still playing well, but plays much different now than he did with Bill Evans--more firey and louder.
Retrorex, hi! I just finished this wonderful video, Bill Evans- an icon- and even his interview was inspiring! And what a cool surprise to see Marty Morell again! Then to read your comment ...Marty will Not remember! but I met him around 1970 (?) in Toronto, where I used to sing, he played a couple of our gigs with Paul Grosney's band and was fantastic! It's both weird and pleasant to have this ancient "connection" of sorts with the old days of my former life. Which I miss so much...enjoy your jazz night out! Toronto's still in lockdown, including our live music venues. 😡
Some of their accents are pretty heavy but Bill's comment about the baby in the crib made me think, I never thought of it like that. Its like you want to have a voice (in music) and style of your own need to be selective about the music you play and feelings you express. Thanks for uploading.
This is wonderful footage, thanks for posting this! Shows us a nation of not exactly laid back, but at least as curious people. The audio/video quality is very good considering it's a private home. I know the place. Great to hear Bill Evans' voice, such a great voice. I wish the host would have offered something else than coffee and cakes. Perhaps they did.
Yeah, bill is such a force in jazz. Me personally, I think music is like a force of art that you can get into whatever you're playing. I personally think p My perception of jazz is probably bigger and more widespread than most people
13 👎 ???? Who in the world can these 13 people be ? What sort of humanoid dislikes this modest, kind and sincere genius ? There is no limit to the gratitude that we should feel and express for having witnessed his performances and for being able To keep enjoying every chord after all thesee years. He was the greatest. I know there were many great ones , Duke, Count, Art, Oscar, Thelonious, Errol, Even Fats , Keith or then Rubinstein, Horowitz or Gould .....'.' Mr Evans is on top just by himself. B. Low Brussels
At 7:13 when the question comes about avant garde, Evans gives a beautiful response. Every musician who considers himself experimental (for lack of a better word) should listen carefully to his advice.
Agreed Also imo, lot of the time (especially with many of the modern stuff) I feel as though the expression that's there gets drowned out in so much chaos that it's just not worth the effort it takes to appreciate or relate to it. Most of the things I hear coming out of that sphere today lack, to my ears, the sort of introspective, genuine charm guys like Coleman, Sanders and Mingus had
Notice how Jazz Performance exuded a stuffy shirt and tie presence back when video recording tech involved hundreds of pounds of rigidly mounted camera equipment. That he mentions Jeremy Steig, a stand out flutist at a time when that instrument was barely noticed, is a curious revelation from a renown musician of his genre.
Soy un gran enamorado de la música de Bill Evans pero me duele mucho cuando se citan a otros músicos y no se nombra nunca a Lennie Tristano. Me duele muchísimo y Bill es de mis primeros favoritos sin duda...
This guy was so intelligent when he wasn't playing jazz he spent all his time reading philosophers from Plato to Frederick Nietzsche and from Freud to yung
...i lke,too, his phisycal transformation through the time and life...his way of looking,...in his younger years, he looked older in a way ,to me, like straight profesor, while till the end of his life he changed in freely way, looking like ,having that look like hippy ,artist style...😎!?!...🌹❤️
If a film on the life and music of Bill Evans had been made, Willem Dafoe definitely would have been an awesome choice. But Bill Evans died at 51 and Willem Dafoe is now in his 60's, so if that film is ever made the role will have to go to a younger actor.
Saw Bill Evans at Ronnie Scott's London in the 1960's. He autographed my purse......then it was stolen ,the next day I think,in Kingston UK by a grinning imp of a child 😞. I have his album Conversations With Myself.
Isn't it remarkable the level of interest shown by the somewhat 'large' group assembled here, the almost 'scientific' nature and level of the enquiry, the depth of the questioning and corresponding detail of the responses? Discourse is not static across time. Rather, it is mediated by many factors having to do with contexts of time and place This clip provides a good example.
Ha Ha -Yeah it's crazy isn't it- didn't really seem to matter- they killed it every time. How does he stay so lucid and brimming full of intellect? Surely enriched many lives-I know I'd wear an "I Love Bill Evans" Tee shirt in a 1/2 second!
@ctrlzjones I read his biography and learned bill evans didn't get his teeth fixed till way later on in his career, through a family friend who offered to do it for free. Only then, was he able. Shame for such a genius to have to go through that.
"What we want is freedom with responsibility"
Deep words.
Nabil BERERICHE Yes, I agree! In a number of cultures and languages, Hawai’i for example, there is just one word the two. The two are so inseparable as to be the same thing.
totally
GAY
Agreed. Too many yo-yos in America go around crowing about freedom, never mentioning responsibility.
This is definition of creativity.
Everybody digs Bill Evans!
Bill was just as graceful and as effective speaking, as he was when playing the piano.
@Anderson Cooper jealousy rears its ugly head once more...
mercury in virgo moon in capricorn and capricorn lilith
he was very
very
realistic
@Anderson Cooper but is that any of our business ?
@Anderson Cooper yeah heroin ain't good.nothing graceful about it.. but God's gifts are graceful...
Yes
“Never rehearsed” Bill Evans trio is like the big 3 of jazz
Such a cool atmosphere, it feels almost like a scene from some european art house film, but it really is a real interview! Honestly I am flabbergasted how cool everyone and everything is. For a small public broadcasting company YLE (who filmed this) did a marvelous job with Bill Evans trio living room concert.
True. Keep in mind, this was in a wealthy home in one of the most exclusive locations in Finland. YLE is not as small as you think. They are often a major player in some relatively big internatonal productions.
Calm, cool and collected.
That was back when 'cool' meant a cool disposition - not disturbed or excited by anything. Then the 80s came and 'cool' turned into some kind of Bobcat Goldthwait/Bart Simpson "Hey dude!" excitable character. I prefer original cool.
Bill Evans had a light, lyrical touch that was so beautiful, it made it seem like you could hear the gates of heaven. But like so many tragic artists, he died way too young 😢
Rest In Peace Bill Evans 🙏🏾🎹
Yes
"the trio has never rehearsed" - that quote knocks me on my ass
What do you think he means by that never rehearsed?
How amazing is it that Evans speaks about music as connections between people? You get that in hearing his music.
Oo
Love this! Life long fan of Bill Evans, such a brilliant artist.
Most musicians, and particularly jazz musicians, find it difficult if not impossible to speak clearly and incisively about their music and what they seek to achieve in it. Bill Evans was that rare exception.
Ever heard Lyle Mays speak about it?
Bill has a phenomenal ability to express himself. In words and his music the level of communication is incredible.
Evans open the big gate of jazz music for me. When I was a child, I remembered the first time I hear the sound from "Autumn Leave", and I immediately know this is what I'm looking for all the time. And after heard many jazz records and playing, Bill Evans is still my number one jazz piano player. You just can't get tired of listening to those magical note, one after another.
I'm very impressed at the high quality of this video. Especially since this came from the 70's! The compression is nowhere near as bad all the other Bill Evans videos. Thanks for posting this! Bill Evans is the man!
How about Krispin Glover as B.E. ....oh yeah..
his mind, music and vision is timeless.
Bill Evans is a Master Legend and genius.
Agree
Brilliant and highly relevant to anyone who wants to play jazz.
Freedom with responsability...amazing words, and indeed, very deep ones. The trio never rehearsed...wow!!! Beyond amazing musicians...
Oh Bill...thanks for the great music. I'm sorry for your struggles; you left us much too soon. Thanks for posting this...I love this man and his music
He is a good interview. A lot of musicians do not interview very well. This is around the time I was first getting into Jazz, He liked Bach as a favorite, He liked Classical and Debussy in the Impressionist period.
I’ve heard his music for so many years, and I became a fan as a teenager when I learned that he was trained here in Louisiana at Southeastern Louisiana University. (He died shortly after I discovered his music so I never got to see him perform live, unfortunately).
So, after 40+ years of appreciating this man’s remarkable talent and grace, I finally get to hear him speak. Hear his voice. And I’m damn impressed - to paraphrase what someone else commented here - he was a graceful, elegant speaker - just as his playing was.
What a unique talent, time to listen to more Bill Evans Trio.
Thank you for posting this! Literally the first time I’ve heard the man talk... so cool. This is why I love CZcams...
CZcams is the world's collective library
"The intellect only goes as far as being a student"....
God I love this guy. What a true genius!!!
Wow, thanks for sharing this!
well, this was a pleasure to listen to. he seems like a nice quite sensible guy as expressed by his piano play as enriching the minds of his fellows by sharing his insights of beeing ecstatic with music. yum yum, thank you =)
Wow, I think he really captures the modern predicament in popular (spotify artists, though I don’t necessarily mean any shade!) music today when he articulates the danger of expressing feelings that are too “everyday” (~7:40ish mark). There is such an emphasis on expression over and against aesthetic sensibility, or maybe craftsmanship, more precisely put. Such profound insight and kinship with the nature of music!
He was such a high level thinker!
Precisely this.
I didn't understand his use of "everyday" in the sentence about the dangers of the avant-garde being "too personal". By that, I thought he meant that avant-gardists were running into the usual avant-garde problem of not being "everyday" enough. Surely the "everyday" has little or nothing to do with the "personal"? The "everyday" usually refers to what's usual or 'normal'; something an avant-gardist flees from.
@@blackmore4 you’re right I forgot that he said that in the context of the question about avant-garde jazz. Thank you for pointing that out
Bill Evans. Never forget the first time I heard his music.
Devin Gademan OFFICIAL for me: Waltz for Debbie from the Jazz Masters cd.
Cloud! Nite!
Crispin Glover would be ideal in a biopic about this man.
Allen Manor - Joaquin Phoenix and Vincent Gallo could pull it off too
Oh MAN I wanna see that.
Evans sorta resembles Ethan hawke to me
emporer: Yeah -- Joaquin Phoenix or maybe Christian Bale as someone else suggested.
George McFly as Bill Evans
learn first, then learn to forget what you've learnt---deep
wbx he wasn't trying to be deep, he was just being truthful. If you're constantly thinking about technique then there's no bandwith left for expression.
this is incredible footage. thanks for uploading! :)
Bring back those times
Elegant, eloquent, classy and intelligent
Like someones poetry ? 🙂
His answer to the question about "avant garde" was perfect.
Avant les net ces archives était inconsultables merci🖥
So well spoken. I love Bill Evans so much.
Just the genius.
This was filmed in my hometown of Helsinki almost 20 years before I was born, I love Bill Evans and his approach to the piano, that's some very intelligent words on avant-garde jazz as well (referred to as free nowadays?)
Amazing interview ... truly classic vintage footage ...
Wonderful interveiw !
This is so dope! I wish Bill knew how much he meant to people.
The great Bill Evans .....
“Freedom with responsibility.”
I like that statement.
The last thing he said was really important: that you develop by playing in front of audiences and with peers constantly.
(Not by watching youtube videos.)
Yes, with everything in life! You only learn 'on the job'.
What a very interesting person to hear and listen to, Bill Evans. Yes very deep.
"I think, what we looked for is that: Freedom with responsibility. In other words, there is no requirement to do anything at a certain time, but we like to feel like that we're responsible to the total performance."
Great footage!
this is a gold mine. if i could play even as half as good as bill evans before i die, i will be a content man.
Bill Evans has an individual and unique quality about him . It resonates from him...it resonates out of him whilst he speaks and plays.
To this day , the Gold standard!
🏆🥇🏆🥇🏆🥇🏆🥇🏆🥇🏆🥇🏆
Marty Morell is still around. In fact, I'm going to see him in concert tomorrow night here in Orlando. He's still playing well, but plays much different now than he did with Bill Evans--more firey and louder.
Retrorex, hi! I just finished this wonderful video, Bill Evans- an icon- and even his interview was inspiring! And what a cool surprise to see Marty Morell again! Then to read your comment ...Marty will Not remember! but I met him around 1970 (?) in Toronto, where I used to sing, he played a couple of our gigs with Paul Grosney's band and was fantastic! It's both weird and pleasant to have this ancient "connection" of sorts with the old days of my former life. Which I miss so much...enjoy your jazz night out! Toronto's still in lockdown, including our live music venues. 😡
Some of their accents are pretty heavy but Bill's comment about the baby in the crib made me think, I never thought of it like that. Its like you want to have a voice (in music) and style of your own need to be selective about the music you play and feelings you express. Thanks for uploading.
Rufus The Pink Elephant just had the same thought
So much of music today is a baby crying in the crib.
This is wonderful footage, thanks for posting this!
Shows us a nation of not exactly laid back, but at least as curious people. The audio/video quality is very good considering it's a private home. I know the place. Great to hear Bill Evans' voice, such a great voice.
I wish the host would have offered something else than coffee and cakes. Perhaps they did.
thanks
this has been on since 2009 wow anyway thanks for this. Bill Evans !
Yeah, bill is such a force in jazz. Me personally, I think music is like a force of art that you can get into whatever you're playing. I personally think p My perception of jazz is probably bigger and more widespread than most people
13 👎 ???? Who in the world can these 13 people be ? What sort of humanoid dislikes this modest, kind and sincere genius ?
There is no limit to the gratitude that we should feel and express for having witnessed his performances and for being able
To keep enjoying every chord after all thesee years.
He was the greatest. I know there were many great ones , Duke, Count, Art, Oscar, Thelonious, Errol, Even Fats , Keith or then Rubinstein, Horowitz or Gould .....'.' Mr Evans is on top just by himself.
B. Low
Brussels
Absolute musical genius
Amazing
Magnifique,
A genius!
Bill Evans played with space and tranquility in mind, always with a purpose.
Real genius!
At 7:13 when the question comes about avant garde, Evans gives a beautiful response. Every musician who considers himself experimental (for lack of a better word) should listen carefully to his advice.
Agreed
Also imo, lot of the time (especially with many of the modern stuff) I feel as though the expression that's there gets drowned out in so much chaos that it's just not worth the effort it takes to appreciate or relate to it.
Most of the things I hear coming out of that sphere today lack, to my ears, the sort of introspective, genuine charm guys like Coleman, Sanders and Mingus had
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Eddie Gomez is so young. I've never heard him talk at this age. Any age for that matter. Such a badass.
Yeah I was surprised to see him. I didn’t even know he would have been old enough to be playing with Bill back in 1970
what a legend
Великий Гений
That's an excerpt from a concert he gave in a posh private residence on Lauttasaari in Helsinki. Full video exists on CZcams.
Bill taught jazz for a semester or more at the UM music dept. By invitation. ❤
💖
@ 0:11 @ 0:23 @ 0:33 Bill's newest admirer. The innocence of 'Debby'. Somewhere back there, in us all. Eternalized, for us all, by Mr. William Evans.
🥀💚
A pure genius at, or away from the keys.... When I think of beauty in music, I think Bill first.
@Skinzlivez I quite agree. For a long time he hesitated between a classical "career" and a jazz one...
Treasure.
Notice how Jazz Performance exuded a stuffy shirt and tie presence
back when video recording tech involved hundreds of pounds of rigidly mounted camera equipment. That he mentions Jeremy Steig, a stand out
flutist at a time when that instrument was barely noticed, is a curious revelation from a renown musician of his genre.
Didn't notice that he mentioned Steig. At what point?
Go to 5:40. Brief mention of Steig
Yes - Evans also played flute when he was young, apparently with some proficiency, so he would have appreciated Steig
You don’t get anymore cooler than these cats!
Soy un gran enamorado de la música de Bill Evans pero me duele mucho cuando se citan a otros músicos y no se nombra nunca a Lennie Tristano. Me duele muchísimo y Bill es de mis primeros favoritos sin duda...
This guy was so intelligent when he wasn't playing jazz he spent all his time reading philosophers from Plato to Frederick Nietzsche and from Freud to yung
"well, he was counting measures one day..."
Holy shit you guys.
I'm amazed at the least. Bill's teaching me how to speak eloquently.
Didn't most (educated) people speak like this in the 1960s?
@@herrbonk3635 I realised that, but I think even the "educated" (English-speaking) celebrities nowadays don't speak like this anymore.
debussy, ravel, bartok (and bach of course) - amazing influences
...i lke,too, his phisycal transformation through the time and life...his way of looking,...in his younger years, he looked older in a way ,to me, like straight profesor, while till the end of his life he changed in freely way, looking like ,having that look like hippy ,artist style...😎!?!...🌹❤️
Yeah he said once that he wants the music to express exceptional moments and insights as opposed to the banal.
Bill Evans sounds like David Lynch
He was a real intellectual, no doubt about it.
the true cool.
When adults actually were allowed to create music and art at a very high level!
What made you decide to leave? (classical music for jazz); Morell: "Well...", Bill: "He was counting measures one day, ..." - ;-)
Marvelously lucid
He looks like William Defoe and the guy that plays the father in Insidious a little.
If a film on the life and music of Bill Evans had been made, Willem Dafoe definitely would have been an awesome choice. But Bill Evans died at 51 and Willem Dafoe is now in his 60's, so if that film is ever made the role will have to go to a younger actor.
I think Crispin Glover would be an amazing choice if they ever decide to make it
Saw Bill Evans at Ronnie Scott's London in the 1960's.
He autographed my purse......then it was stolen ,the next day I think,in Kingston UK by a grinning imp of a child 😞.
I have his album Conversations With Myself.
Guy sound like chomsky to me. Great upload. Thank you.
00:54, damn she's something! We miss you Bill.
I am going to use that line about comparing crying babies to subjective artists and expressing everything
Isn't it remarkable the level of interest shown by the somewhat 'large' group assembled here, the almost 'scientific' nature and level of the enquiry, the depth of the questioning and corresponding detail of the responses? Discourse is not static across time. Rather, it is mediated by many factors having to do with contexts of time and place This clip provides a good example.
Ha Ha -Yeah it's crazy isn't it- didn't really seem to matter- they killed it every time. How does he stay so lucid and brimming full of intellect? Surely enriched many lives-I know I'd wear an "I Love Bill Evans" Tee shirt in a 1/2 second!
Eddie Gomez looks like Tostoa. The great Brasilian football legend.
that chick at :54 tho
Devin Doherty yes oh my yes
@hansis I don't think anyone could get to a QUARTER of what bill was as a musician
Would he perhaps be on the level of those great classical composers? I think so.
Crispin Glover could play him in a biopic
Maybe the look, but Glover's voice is too gutteral like Jordan Peterson's.
idea interplayed counterpoint vs multiple-dynamical-interloods
@ctrlzjones I read his biography and learned bill evans didn't get his teeth fixed till way later on in his career, through a family friend who offered to do it for free. Only then, was he able. Shame for such a genius to have to go through that.