Kind of blue bill evans liner notes pdf

For all the interest of evans remarks, their status as liner notes needs to be remembered. Flamenco sketches is a series of five scales, each to be played as long as the soloist wishes until he has completed the series. The 1976 recording has been meticulously restored, while the album includes new liner notes by ashley kahn, featuring insight from trio members eddie gomez and eliot zigmund. Legacy edition presents original album plus studio sequences, false starts, and alternate takes from 195859 sessions, plus 17minute so. Kind of blue deluxe 50th anniversary collectors edition miles davis. Not only are his comments sometimes misleading evans famously. Classic jazzs bestselling album ever, kind of blue, is at once a beacon to nascent. He plays the piano the way it should be played, said davis about bill evans. In the spring of 1959, seven musicians got together in a converted church on 30th street in manhattan and made jazz history. Bill evans was the pianist in miles davis group in 1958, and after a few tracks recorded and less than a year.

It was recorded on march 2 and april 22, 1959, at columbias 30th street studio in new york city, and released on august 17 of that year by columbia records. He really wanted to play something that matched that level of harmonic sophistication. If i remember correctly, the liner notes to kind of blue had a story about wynton psyching himself up before the recording of this solo since the rest of the record featured bill evans. I would suggest that miles daviss 1959 recording kind of blue is indubitably a classic. Frequence analysis of so what the sessions monday, march 02, 1959. Bill evans liner notes, for the kind of blue album bill evans was the pianist in miles davis group in 1958, and after a few tracks recorded and less than a year touring with the band, left to form his own trio and expand his career. Bill evans original handwritten liner notes did not mention the titles of tunes. The kind of blue sessions in honor of miles davis 50thanniversary kind of blue reissue. The piece follows a 32 bar aaba structure, both during the melodic line and during the solos. These books on the making of kind of blue were published about a month apart, but they are similar in topic only. Evans also penned the liner notes for kind of blue, comparing jazz improvisation to japanese visual art. The performance opens with a one chorus melody statement by bill evans supported by jim hall in a style that is somewhere between contrapuntal and, at times, functioning a bit like. There is a japanese visual art in which the artist is forced to be spontaneous. Miles davis kind of blue with julian cannonball adderley paul chambers james cobb john coltrane bill evans wynton kelly.

Bill evans liner notes, for the kind of blue album. The takes without john or julian are not listed here. Miles davis trumpet, bill evans piano, jimmy cobb drums, paul chambers bass, john coltrane tenor saxophone, julian cannonball adderley. Featuring transcriptions of bill evans piano, scott lafaro bass and paul motian drums pdf created date 10272016 10. But kind of blue marked a huge leap in the direction of a simpler, yet openended structure which emphasized melody. David remnick has been editor of the new yorker since 1998. The album features daviss ensemble sextet consisting of saxophonists john coltrane and julian cannonball adderley, pianist bill evans, bassist paul chambers, and. My father practiced an average of eight hours a day in his later years, evan evans writes in the discs liner notes. Following are bill evans liner notes from the original 1959 lp release. The making of the miles davis masterpiece, ashley kahn gives readers the. From the very first notes we know we are hearing something new. A superb collection of classic liner notes, including pianist bill evans notes for kind of blue columbia, 1959.

Bill evans eventually left miles partly because of the racial tensions among the band members, but went back for a studio session once when miles asked him to. All titles recorded by the miles davis sextet in chronological order. If the melody of blue in green is taken to be the line that bill evans plays in the first chorus on portrait in jazz, then it appears most clearly in the final piano statement on kind of blue, and miles first theme statement is related but not very literal. The bill charlap trio, live at the village vanguard blue note, 2007. Bill evans, liner notes to kind of blue 19 introduction the introduction of artistic methods and processes into academic research can enrich and enliven both research and art. The five 1958 studio recordings were performed just a couple of months after the sessions that produced the fine transitional milestones, but the replacement of red garland and philly joe jones with billy evans and jimmy cobb, respectively, had already moved the band down the path that would lead to kind of blue. Bill evans iivi transcription in 12 keys i really enjoyed working on this transcription more like adaption of bill evans. Bill evans talking about miles daviss change of style to jazz fusion i would like to hear more of the consummate melodic master, but i feel that big business and his record company have had a corrupting influence on his material. And the other thing was that the first complete performance of each thing is what youre hearing, like the, miles ran over the.

The rock and pop thing certainly draws a wider audience. Over forty years have passed since miles davis assembled his famed sextet to record kind of blue, and in that time the album has risen to the level of masterpiece in kind of blue. Im using the original audio for educational purposes. Aside from the weighty technical problem of collective coherent thinking, there is the very human, even social need for sympathy from all members to bend for the. It is the fifth track on davis 1959 album kind of blue, the bestselling jazz. Abene employs some dynamic orchestrations from the big band on this number while drummer smith delivers a virtuosic drum solo while accompanying himself on south indian carnatic konokol singing. That session became kind of blue, generally held to be the greatest jazz album ever. It meant bill evans liner notes from the original 1959 release now ascribed a sixeight, twelve measure blues to all blues and a series of five. Jack has included, as track 26, an18 minute recording of himself playing evans classics in a wonderful medley. Bill evans is given credit for inventing the jazz piano trio. Of course, the original version appears on the revered recording with pianist, bill evans titled, undercurrentblue note which was recorded in the spring of 1962. It is the bestselling jazz album in the columbia records catalogue. Liner notes include historical essay, kind of blue at 50 by francis davis, and original liner notes by bill evans. Columbias recording policy at that time was to run two tape machines simultaneously, a master and a safety.

Even as the adherence to improvising within the melody remained the order. Jerry jazz musician is a noncommercial website whose mission is to explore the culture of america with jazz as the centerpiece. He must paint on a thin stretched parchment with a special brush and black water paint in such a way that an unnatural or interrupted stroke will destroy the line or break through the parchment. Miles davis, cannonball adderley, john coltrane, bill evans, wynton. The piece is made up of a jazz sextet, with miles davis on trumpet, john coltrane on tenor saxophone, cannonball adderly on alto saxophone, bill evans on piano, paul chambers on bass, and jimmy cobb on drums. Fifty years of great jazz liner notes anchor books, 1996. He mus paint on a thin stretched parchment with a special brush and black water paint in such a way that an unnatural or interrupted stroke will destroy the line or break through the parchment. How my heart sings by peter pettinger yale university press, 1998, the liner notes from the 1992 mastersound edition of kind of blue state. Evans wrote in his original liner notes, miles conceived these. Kind of blue ist ein studioalbum des usamerikanischen jazztrompeters miles davis. Famously, the players had not seen or played the pieces before they entered the studio. If kind of blue is heard in the light of blues idioms of the late 1950s more. So what is a simple figure based on 16 measures of one scale. Bill evans interview by william goldberg, wkcr miles davis festival, july 4, 1979 p.

Now comes three more rereleases with plenty of bonusunreleasedalternate takes, extensive liner notes, and even pdf booklets. Miles davis, cannonball adderley, john coltrane, bill evans, wynton kelly, paul chambers, and jimmy cobb 2cd kind of blue. Indepth liner notes essay by awardwinning miles davis authority francis davis, plus embedded. Miles davis flamenco sketches lyrics genius lyrics. Incidentally, the band on blue was coltrane, cannonball adderley, bill evans. Published in the print edition of the may 19, 2008, issue. In the hci research community, artbased methods have begun to push and refigure core hci notions of. I was turned on to jazz by my dad, and the 1st miles album i ever experienced was birth of the cool. First out of the gate was miles davis kind of blue.

As described in the original liner notes by pianist bill evans, davis had only given the band sketches of scales. That his music was so powerful can only be a testament to the importance of perseverance, dedication, and above all, as he and i agree, discipline. Pianist bill evans describes in the original liner notes the brief guidelines they were given. Blue in green from the album kind of blue by miles davis. Bill evans piano solo is simply magical, almost minimalist in his approach. Flamenco sketches is a jazz composition written by american jazz trumpeter miles davis and pianist bill evans. Kind of blue is a studio album by american jazz trumpeter miles davis.

I still listen to kind of blue frequently, particularly flamenco sketches, which is my alltime favorite song. The new version has a cd now included with the examples of the porrtions explained and notated in the text with a bonus. A nonbelievers appreciation of bill evans, by tom djll also includes the full text of larry karts critique of. A typical audition with bill evans trio would have the.