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Gilles MERCIER

L'influence de Bernard Maury fut considérable sur un grand nombre de musiciens[réf. souhaitée]. Parmi ses élèves d'harmonie ou de piano, on peut citer : Pierre de Bethmann, Sylvain Beuf, Jean-Pierre Como, Lilian Dericq, Zool Fleischer, Étienne Guéreau, Ahmet Gulbay, Benoît Delbecq, Philippe le Bareillec, Éric Legnini, Jean-Pierre Mas, Alfio Origlio, Michel Petrucciani, Jean-Michel Pilc, Gael Rakotondrabe, Emil Spanyi, Jacky Terrasson, Laurent de Wilde, Pierre-Alain Goualch.

Bernard Maury Quartet au Thelonious, Bordeaux, 1995

Bernard Maury, L’École française de piano jazz.
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Bill Evans - Quiet Now (1969 Album)

Personnel: Bill Evans (p) Eddie Gómez (bs) Marty Morrell (dr)
Released: 1970
Recorded: November 28, 1969 Amsterdam, Netherlands

0:00 "Very Airy" (Evans)
5:12 "A Sleepin' Bee" (Harold Arlen, Truman Capote)
10:01 "Quiet Now" (Denny Zeitlin)
15:27 "Turn Out the Stars" (Evans)
20:24 "Autumn Leaves" (Jacques Prévert, Joseph Kosma, Johnny Mercer)
24:40 "Nardis" (Miles Davis)

An aptly titled album from the Bill Evans Trio, Quiet Now is the jazz pianist at his most ambient and cerebral. Accompanied only by the minimalist rhythm section of bassist Eddie Gomez and drummer Marty Morell, Evans effortlessly deconstructs two pop standards, Harold Arlen's "Sleeping Bee" and his beloved "Autumn Leaves," a Johnny Mercer tune that he played seemingly hundreds of times, along with three of his own compositions and Miles Davis' "Nardis," a song Evans made his own through endless reintepretation over the course of many years. Morrel is a steady, unobtrusive drummer with a light touch and, happily, not much of a tendency to show off and even less to solo. Gomez, the bassist Evans worked with the longest in his career, knows how to anticipate his boss' every move, no matter how seemingly random, and his solo spots are those rarities, economical and well-constructed bass solos that are actually fun to listen to. Quiet Now is a bit too workmanlike to be one of the greatest Bill Evans Trio releases -- it's more solidly competent than divinely inspired, but Evans' playing, as always, is marvelous.

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Bob Brookmeyer, Bill Evans × The Ivory Hunters

The Ivory Hunters (subtitled Double Barrelled Piano) is an album by jazz pianists Bill Evans and Bob Brookmeyer, originally released on the United Artists label, featuring Evans and Brookmeyer with Percy Heath, and Connie Kay, recorded in 1959.

Brookmeyer was known primarily as a trombonist who occasionally doubled on piano; this was his only album playing piano exclusively.

The Allmusic review by Michael G. Nastos states: "Pairing a rising superstar of modern jazz with a gentleman known for playing valve trombone and arranging charts might have been deemed by some as a daunting task. Fortunately for the keyboardists, this was a good idea and a marvelous concept, where the two could use the concept of counterpoint and improvisation to an enjoyable means, much like a great chess match. For the listener, you are easily able to hear the difference between ostensible leader Evans in the right channel of the stereo separation, and the accompanist Brookmeyer in the left... Some have called this an effort based more on gimmick and showmanship, but if you agree to listen closely, the depth and substance of Evans and Brookmeyer reveals a lot of soul, invention, and musicians simply having a real good time".

Track listing
"Honeysuckle Rose" (Andy Razaf, Fats Waller) - 5:55
"As Time Goes By" (Herman Hupfeld) - 6:58
"The Way You Look Tonight" (Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern) - 7:41
"It Could Happen to You" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 7:28
"The Man I Love" (Ira Gershwin, George Gershwin) - 5:58
"I Got Rhythm" (Gershwin, Gershwin) - 8:34
Recorded in New York City on March 12, 1959

Personnel
Bill Evans - piano
Bob Brookmeyer - piano
Percy Heath - bass
Connie Kay - drums

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Wolfgang Haffner - Silent World (2023)

Wolfgang Haffner / drums
Simon Oslender / piano & keyboards
Thomas Stieger / bass
Sebastian Studnitzky / trumpet
Bill Evans / soprano sax
Till Brönner / flugelhorn
Nils Landgren / trombone
Dominic Miller / guitar
Mitchel Forman / lead synth
Eythor Gunnarsson / rhodes & synth
Alma Naidu / vocals
Rhani Krija / percussion
Bruno Müller / e-guitar
Nicolas Fiszman / bass
Norbert Nagel & Marc Wyand / tenor sax, flute & clarinet

#WolfgangHaffner #BillEvans #TillBrönner #jazz #music

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hm... finished Intermission by Owen Martell

New York, June 1961. The Bill Evans Trio, featuring twenty-five year old Scott LaFaro on bass, play a series of concerts at the Village Vanguard that will go down in musical history. Shortly afterwards, LaFaro is killed in a car accident, and Evans disappears. Intermission tells the story of what happens next.

In measured, evocative prose, Intermission takes a period from the life of one of America's great artists and fashions it into a fiction of extraordinary imaginative skill and ambition. The novel inhabits the lives of four people in orbit around a tragedy, presenting an intense and moving portrait of the burden of grief, and of a man lost to his family and to himself. It is also a conjuring of a pivotal moment in American music and culture, and a unique representation of the jazz scene in the early 1960s.

Intermission is a novel of pure control and power, certain to establish Owen Martell as one of the most promising young writers in Britain today.

#OwenMartell #books #reading #BillEvans

Intermission

New York, June 1961. The Bill Evans Trio, featuring twenty-five year old Scott LaFaro on bass, play a series of concerts at the Village V...

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Live At Birdland 1960 - Bill Evans

0:00:00 01 Autumn Leaves
0:04:59 02 Our Delight
0:11:32 03 Beautiful Love / Five
0:17:22 04 Autumn Leaves
0:23:44 05 Come Rain Or Come Shine / Five
0:28:52 06 Come Rain Or Come Shine
0:34:01 07 Nardis
0:41:16 08 Blue In Green
0:47:27 09 Autumn Leaves
0:54:36 10 All Of You
1:01:43 11 Come Rain Or Come Shine
1:06:20 12 Speak Low
Bill Evans（p）　Scott LaFaro（b）　Paul Motian（ds）
01～03 Mar.12 / 04 05 Mar.19 / 06～09 Apr.30 / 10～12 May 7, 1960

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Bill Evans Trio Live at Casale Monferrato, Piedmont, Italy - 1979 (audioy)

Bill Evans Trio Live at Casale Monferrato, Piedmont, Italy, November 30, 1979. Full concert. Audio only. Broadcast by RAI Radio 3.
-Setlist set I:
01. Re: Person I Knew (Bill Evans)
02. Midnight Mood (Bill Evans)
03. Polka Dots And Moonbeams (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen)
04. Theme From M*A*S*H (Suicide Is Painless) (Johnny Mandel)
05. A Sleepin' Bee (Harold Arlen, Truman Capote)
06. I Do It For Your Love (Paul Simon)
-Setlist set II:
09. My Romance (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart)
10. Noelle's Theme (Michel Legrand)
11. I Loves You Porgy (George & Ira Gershwin)
12. Up With The Lark (Jerome Kern, Leo Robin)
13. Turn Out The Stars (By Bill Evans)
12. Five (Bill Evans)
13. Spring Is Here (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart)
14. Nardis (Miles Davis)
15. But Beautiful (Johnny Burke - Jimmy Van Heusen)

-Lineup:
Marc Johnson - Bass (1 to 7, 10 to 15)
Joe LaBarbera - Drums (1 to 7, 12 to 15)
Bill Evans - Piano

This is the last Trio Evans would work with before his death in 1980.
One of the innovators in Jazz, Evans used impressionist harmony, along with an inventive inter-pretation of Standards which continues to be influential among Jazz pianists today.
His compositions, including the memorable Waltz For Debby, have been frequently played by other musicians and have become standards in Jazz repertoire.
In addition to his solo and trio work, Evans worked with a veritable who’s who of Jazz musicians, including Miles Davis, Art Farmer, Cannonball Adderley and numerous others.
A chaotic life, marred by a longtime heroin addiction, which prompted Jazz critic Gene Lees to describe as “the longest suicide in history”. Evans was in a considerable amount of personal turmoil, especially around this time with a severe Cocaine addiction and the suicide of his brother in May of that year weighing on him, which prompted him to cancel several dates on a Spring tour of the Northwest, Evans was still able to focus and deliver thoughtful, introspective interpretations and to continue astounding audiences.
Bill Evans recorded a considerable amount during his career. Even more has been recorded in a live concert setting, and those have been issued, some officially and some clandestinely, over the years to an ever-present base of fans, admirers and students of Jazz piano. Even gone some 40+ years, he still influences. And in this chaotic time, he still consoles.
(pastdaily.com).

#BillEvans #MarcJohnson #JoeLaBarbera #piano #jazz #music

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#yoopee ! discovered an unknown Bill Evans. added to me 216 albums of this genius.
... when I am in that special mood I can listen only Bill Evans !

Bill Evans Trio Live at the Lieberhalle, Stuttgart, Germany - 1979 (full concert, audio only)

Bill Evans Trio Live at the Lieberhalle, Treffpunkt Jazz Festival, Stuttgart, Germany, December 3, 1979. SDR radio broadcast.
-Setlist:
01. Re: Person I Knew
02. Laurie
03. All Of You
04. Noel's Theme
05. I Loves You, Porgy
06. Up With The Lark
07. Theme From MASH (Suicide Is Painless)
08. All Mine
09. Nardis
10. But Beautiful

-Lineup:
Bill Evans - piano
Marc Johnson - bass
Joe LaBarbera - drums

The last two months of 1979 were rough on pianist Bill Evans. On tour in Europe with bassist Marc Johnson and drummer Joe LaBarbera, he was booked into a different city each night. He also had a cold and looked haggard. Nevertheless, on November 26, he performed a sensational concert at Espace Pierre Cardin in Paris. The results would appear on two Paris Concert albums. Four days later, the trio was at Casale Monferratoin in Piedmont, Italy. Based on albums and bootlegs from this tour, some nights Evans was spectacular. On other nights, his playing was rushed or murky. One suspects that how well or poorly he played had much to do with the quality of the piano on stage. Evans tended to punish lousy pianos with percussive disgust. On December 3, 1979, Evans was at Liederhalle in Stuttgart, Germany, and the concert grand on stage must have been gorgeous. His appearance was part of the Treffpunkt Jazz Festival. Completed in 1956, Liederhalle was and is considered one of Germany's most extraordinary arts buildings of the 1950s. The original hall, built in 1864, was destroyed during the war.
The new Liederhalle combined several halls of different sizes and architecture. The largest, where Evans performed, is the Beethoven Hall, with over 2,100 seats. It's asymmetrical and dominated by the shape of a sweeping, curved gallery. The Evans concert was taped and broadcast on SDR, the German radio station. The next day, Evans moved on to Lyon, France. Years later, the Liederhalle tape somehow made its way to Japan, where it was released as Bill Evans: Treffpunkt Jazz Festival 1979, a bootleg. It is extremely rare.
This performance rivals Evans's Paris Concert and, in places, exceeds it (All of Me, But Beautiful). Evans's pacing is terrific, his tone is moving and his fingering is fleet and magical. It's easily one of his finest live recordings.
(jazzwax.com).

#BillEvans #jazz #music

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