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With Bill Evans, The Pianist as an Artist, Enrico Pieranunzi provides a compelling look at this influential musician. Pieranunzi, a talented pianist himself, provides an insightful glance into the ...
Critics call Bill Charlap one of the strongest mainstream jazz pianists on the scene and one of the most gifted interpreters of standards. He has worked with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet, Benny ...
Few musicians ever captured a profound sense of aloneness like pianist Bill Evans. Throughout a too-brief, 20-odd-year career that ended with his death in 1980, Evans used his nuanced playing to ...
A New Documentary Explores The Troubled, Brilliant Life Of Pianist Bill Evans Filmmaker Bruce Spiegel speaks with Weekend Edition about the eight-year process behind Bill Evans: Time Remembered.
If you, professor, could live the academic equivalent of Bill Evans’s life would you abandon the “lazy safety of specialization” for the privilege and lacerating anguish of doing so? This ...
No one sounded like Bill Evans. The delicacy of his touch and luster of his tone alone would have made him a distinctive jazz pianist. But add to this his complex chord structures and meticulously … ...
Bill Miller, who was Frank Sinatra’s pianist for nearly 50 years until the singer’s last performance in 1995, has died. He was 91. Miller died Tuesday at a Montreal hospital of complications ...
Jazz pianist Bill Charlap has performed in a variety of settings, including the Blue Note 7 band that played the Sheldon Concert Hall in 2009.
A master interpreter of classic American Songbook material, the inventive, expressive pianist Bill Charlap leads a brilliant, tightly knit unit that celebrates the art of the jazz piano trio with c… ...
The synopsis reads: “June 1961, NYC: legendary jazz pianist Bill Evans (Danielsen Lie) has found his musical voice and created the perfect trio, including bass player Scott LaFaro, said to be ...
On Sunday, Jan. 31, jazz pianist Bill Charlap gives a solo performance of selections from the Great American Songbook. He performs at The Unitarian Church in Summit. After his recital, the ...
Bill Chadney, a jazz pianist who for many years owned the popular Chadney's restaurants in the San Fernando Valley and Santa Monica, died Tuesday at his Palm Desert home, his daughter Susan ...