Three from My Trinity of Cool: Bill Evans, Monika Zetterlund, Chet Baker.

Three more irresistible tracks…..

Bill Evans (August 16th 1929 - September 15th 1988)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monica Zetterlund (September 20th 1937-May 5th 2005)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monica sings ‘I’m so lucky to be Me’

 

 

 

 

Chet Baker (December 23rd 1929-May 13th 1988)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Bill Evans: Three not-so-easy pieces.

Bill Evans ( August 16th 1929 - September 15th 1980)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bill could make cool smoulder – what is there left to say about him? His music speaks for him. He did more with less – his brilliance was always deep and un-superficial, and you already had to be turned a little inward in order to ‘get’ him.  He had incredible style – careful, thoughtful , refined, measured and spell-binding are the words that come to mind when I think of Bill. He could handle anything from a Pavane of Fauré to the serial tonality of a  Schoenberg scale.

 

 

If any further proof of Bill’s brilliance is needed here it is.
I don’t know anyone else who could have coaxed this much melodic coherence out of potential atonality.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some great sites for information about the late great Bill Evans:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://new-jazz.blogspot.com/2010/05/bill-evans-biography.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.shockmd.com/2011/04/17/bill-evans-a-face-without-a-name/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.jazzwax.com/2008/01/bill-evans-conv.html

 

 

 

 

 

http://dougpayne.blogspot.com/2011/01/bill-evans-his-piano-and-orchestra-play.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/after-the-vanguard-the-return-of-bill-evans/http://www.billevans.nl/Bio.htm

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