Yesterday, the autumn sky in New York was bumper-to-bumper with billowy clouds in all shades of white and slate grey. No rain, just a sea of moody cumulus formations muscling their way east across Manhattan. A perfect day to write with Bill Evans playing. [Photo above by Marc Myers]
Which led me to three videos of Evans—two that went up at YouTube recently and another from Facebook that Dave Thompson found and sent along. [Photo above of Bill Evans]:
Here's the Bill Evans Trio in 1964, with Evans on piano, Chuck Israels on bass and Larry Bunker on drums playing My Foolish Heart and Israel. Note how superb Chuck is here...
Here's the Bill Evans Trio in 1966, colorized, in Oslo playing Time Remembered, with Evans on piano, Eddie Gomez on bass and Alex Riel on drums...
And here's Bill Evans on piano, Kenny Burrell on guitar, Marc Johnson on bass and Philly Joe Jones on drums, at the 1978 Montreux Jazz Festival. Thanks, Dave! Just click anywhere on the image below and you'll be taken to the Facebook page and the video. Unfortunately, I can't embed it here like the others unless it's uploaded to YouTube...