To BE

Happy birthday Bill Evans, on of the top jazz pianists.  He died at only 51, after years of poor health and drug use.  But in his time, he created a sound that many aspired to but few could reach.  As Miles Davis put it, he had a "quiet fire."

His best known playing has to be on Davis's Kind Of Blue, the top selling jazz album.  Evans is co-composer on some of the tunes, and wrote the liner notes, but playing with Miles represented only a small portion of his career.

Perhaps his most admired composition is "Waltz For Debby." (Debby was his niece.)



PS Here's a YouTube comment:

I will never forget this dream I had about a year ago. It was in black and white and I was in the middle of this round stage where the Bill Evans trio was playing Waltz for Debby and when the drums kicked in my body suddenly lost all it's weight and I was floating in the air to the music filled with pure ecstasy which lasted well on through to the next waking day.