Less than three weeks before his death on Sept. 15, 1980, Bill Evans appeared on the Merv Griffin Show. He came out in a white suit, chatted with Griffin and then played his composition Your Story without improvisation. The show aired on Sept. 23, 1980. Reader Gregory Lee had told me about this appearance some time ago and yesterday emailed to let me kn…
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