That's my 1918 vintage 9' Steinway "D" Bill is playing. I rebuilt the instrument, prepared, tuned and voiced the piano for that performance at Lulu White's that night. I owned a piano rebuilding shop next door (David McCord Pianos) on Appleton Street, Boston, and lived on the 3rd floor above Lulu Whites. Bill, Joe and Marc came for dinner at my place, and along with my cohorts in the piano shop, we all feasted on Canard ala Orange that my french girlfriend and business partner Veronique cooked. One of the most memorable evenings of my lifetime!

@PhilipClarke

5 жыл бұрын

What a great comment, brings the recording to life for someone like me ! It must have been great to have been part of this history. Sounds like Bill is really enjoying playing your piano

@hivicar

5 жыл бұрын

That's pretty cool! Good stuff!

@hansis

5 жыл бұрын

Bless you Mr. McCord. I hope someday in my life I can own a steinway, It will always be a lifelong goal of mine to own one. it sounds wonderful.

@makpjazz57

5 жыл бұрын

Wow, David McCord; thanks for sharing. I hear that Dave McKenna was playing opposite Bill Evans during this engagement? Sure wish I had been living in Boston during the time Lulu Whites was around. Also, I heard that Lulu White's had a previous address (before Appleton Street)?

@SteveSmith-pr3jw

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for providing context. This piano sounds superb!

This has been an incredible listening experience for this 80 year-old pianist-composer! I’ve been enthralled with Bill’s music for over 60 years! I had a 3-hour one-on-one visit with Bill in L.A.-and other shorter visits with him. This set of recordings made less than a year before he died are transcendental! The sound is remarkable and the playing of all members is killin’! It’s almost as if Bill had an intuitive feeling that he didn’t have much time left! He left everything out there on the stage! I LOVED this Trio! Marc is such a monster! Joe was so sensitive! The whole thing was astonishing!

Thank God for you Bernie.

So unique style and great man, I have had the chance to hear him in 1973 in Paris, thanks so much forever Bill

Vaya sonido límpido, la ejecución de los temas es de una brillantez en estado de lucidez artística

[1] 0:00 Re: Person I Knew + [2] 4:11 Midnight Mood + [3] 10:15 The Peacocks + [4] 16:50 Suicide Is Painless (Theme from Mash) + [5] 21:31 Laurie + [6] 29:37 Up With the Lark + [7] 35:53 I’m Getting Sentimental Over You + [8] 40:30 I Do It for Your Love + [9] 46:41 My Romance *[1]* is an anagram of *Orrin Keepnews*

@TaichiStraightlife

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the timings but no: "My Romance" is most obviously NOT an anagram of Orrin Keepnews

@alphasolutionstv3288

4 жыл бұрын

@@TaichiStraightlife hi, he was referring to the first track. Re: person I knew

Thank you. What a gem.

Your favorite Bill Evans recordings? How would one even start? Well, Affinity, The Bill Evans Album, Alone, Conversations with Myself, What's New, Everybody Digs Bill Evans, You Must Believe in Spring, Bill Evans and Tony Bennett. And I'm just getting warmed up!

@dkschupack

5 жыл бұрын

He has some pretty okay ones with Miles and Coltrane, if memory serves...

@scottirhodes364

2 жыл бұрын

OMG I can’t thank you enough for these! Bill Evans is my favorite jazz pianist!

@terenciojazzpiano7794

Жыл бұрын

VANGUARD, 1961 AND INCLUDING Mike Harris secret sessions, 1860 Birdland, Solo Sessions, Town Hall

Wow! Wonderful recording, Evans at a peak moment (in spite of the Disease that will take him few months later). What a sound, and that piano... Thanks, I'll try to get the vinyl or the CD! 👏🏻😊👍🏻

Tellement de plaisir à écouter, merci pour le partage !

Good job well done.....great to read the context!!!

Intense!

Great to hear Peacocks (lovely light RH playing including trills) & Johnny Mandel's Suicide is Painless.

Blissful.

Beautiful album!

亡くなる前の年 LIVEアルバム ビルエバンスの 前期、後期のパフォーマンスの違いをジャズ評論などで目にしました。 が、 一本の流れる川の如く 美しい旋律はどこまでも続く✨

No matter how much I love Bill Evans and his music, I can't stand it when he plays Theme from Mash.

@dstol62

5 жыл бұрын

The arrangement is an elevation from the television version.

@wholibah

5 жыл бұрын

considering it's called 'suicide is painless', i feel like it was kind of an important piece all considering.

@dkschupack

5 жыл бұрын

The most ironic and humorous jazz version of a pop tune is Coltrane Chim Chim Cheree on the John Coltrane Quartet Plays album

@roberteckert6081

5 жыл бұрын

I never thought the TV show was any good either. Bunch of typical 70’s flippant, saucy and stupid scripting making fun of body bags. I don’t like the tune much either. I met Bill in 1979 in Chicago and we went over some guitar arrangements that I had made of his tune Waltz for Debby and Turn out the Stars. He was a very nice guy! If he hadn’t hooked into the Miles drug culture he would have lived much longer and given the world even more music. He was the greatest improvisational musician of the 20th Century.

@golds04

3 жыл бұрын

So don’t play it.

This is great but birdland sessions will always be the dankness

0:00 Re: Person I Knew 4:11 Midnight Mood 10:15 The Peacocks 16:50 Suicide Is Painless (Theme from Mash) 21:31 Laurie 29:37 Up With the Lark 35:53 I’m Getting Sentimental Over You 40:30 I Do It for Your Love 46:41 My Romance is an anagram of Orrin Keepnews

😊🌱🎶💐💗

💛🌸😀💙

What brand recorder and mic was used? Thanks, fantastic!

OMG - That staccato touch >> Michel Petrucciani ( kind of disciple of Bill ) did that too with even yet more dynamics

@twigtolle4316

Жыл бұрын

Yes.

Is Scott Lafaro playing bass?

How can people talk during this interplay?..

@peterj.andros3996

6 жыл бұрын

They're in a club drinking, socializing, that's why. It's not a concert in a hall. Get it?

@peterj.andros3996

6 жыл бұрын

I should add that the night the famous Sunday at the Village Vanguard music was recorded I was six feet from the piano through two sets and remember Evans telling the audience to shut up that they were recording. Now that was a very noisy gang talking and klinking glasses most of the night. Bill was still at his greatest.

@roberteckert6081

5 жыл бұрын

Every time Bill Evans plays its a concert, unless he is practicing. Those practice tape recordings released by his son Evan are just that... practice tapes. But if he’s playing in public, the audience is listening to the greatest improvisational musician of the 20th Century and should have shut up. But that’s the general public for you.

@claudiopardini792

Жыл бұрын

​@@peterj.andros399653:18

@carnak6665

8 ай бұрын

@@roberteckert6081 ...I'll never forget Dionne Warwick at the intimate Venetian Room in San Francisco 1966, trying to perform her magic with a table full of drunken tourists who could care less...she literally called for help and luckily the maitre d' was on her side and shut them up.

Anyone have an exact date for this performance?

@hivicar

6 жыл бұрын

Keith Shadwick and Peter Pettinger's excellent biographies have this performance in Oct 1979, following the Buenos Aires concerts in Sept, and just prior to his alma mater visit in Louisiana. (it was Oct 30th)