Bill Evans - Re: Person I Knew - Live at the Maintenance Shop 1979(video)

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   FastRMacR says Miles Davis once said that Bill Evans' playing sounded like flowing water. I believe him. This is absolutely beautiful - and so awesome to see his brow and fingers.The camera shots are great - seeing the interplay of this trio is priceless. Not just 2 minutes ago I wrote Bill's name on Bartleby's MOG about what best suits your ease out of the 'night-before' frolics. Unquestionably, Bill Evans - anytime is a good time. Thanks very much for this post. LeFaro's loss was devastating to Evans.

   Permalink posted 01/01/2008
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   Sturgell says "a piano whose upper register sounds too bright and chimey." -wow, you must be a werewolf to be able to hear that

   Permalink posted 01/02/2008
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   Bartleby says I second what FastR said. Bill Evans was one of those pianists whose sound flows like the sap of an orchid which leads the extraordinary bloom. PS: I don't have a musically trained ear to tell whether this sounds "too bright and chimey." All I know is that this is sumptuous.

   Permalink posted 01/02/2008
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   DLuebbert says Sturgell and Bartleby, I put up a link to Evans original recording below the video link. Listen to that and then the video. In the video, when Evans plays the far right hand side of the keyboard to produce the highest sounding pitches, the notes he plays buzz and sometimes warble. They scratch at my ears a little and produce a gamelan-like sound when he plays loudly. The recording engineers might have miked that side of the piano too closely, the piano tuner didn't get all of the strings for the upper keys to match pitch perfectly or there was something out-of-kilter mechanically with the instrument. Attaching your computer to amplification or listening wih headphones increases the odds you'll notice it. You won't hear those effects in the studio recording.

   Permalink posted 01/02/2008
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   Bartleby says Thank you for the technical explanation. Unfortunately, for non-Americans like myself the tune on Rhapsody is only available as a 30 second random excerpt. -- Anyway, I'm looking forward to your next nugget of musical maieutics.

   Permalink posted 01/02/2008
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   FastRMacR says LAFARO. : sigh : Perhaps because it seems so evident in the title and I jump without proper fact - I think this tune as a piece written for him. Am I correct in my assumption of this? This cut from _Moonbeams_ , the first album he made after LaFaro's death .. so I .. sigh. (thanks for the link there indeed). I would like to reference this great post of yours - it really moved me seeing this clip of Bill. With your abundance of jazz postings since this one I cannot help but be humbled, DLuebbert. I grew up with jazz and I play a lot more by my good ear than I do the fact book (and improvise perhaps too much to my chagrin of the orchestra). I agree with your comments about the tones. I think the piano is not acclimatised or is mis-mic'd ... or the gain was too much somewhere. Rhapsody allowed simultaneous playback when I pulled this up again just now - this piano sounds 'out of tune' when paralleled. Gamelan is a great word for it. :-)

   Permalink posted 01/06/2008