On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hah! Just bought a Bill Evans compendium recording the other day. Wonderful > stuff. :-)
Bill Evans is one of my favourite jazz players. Quite the tragic figure (I think he died at 51 after decades of drug abuse - mostly heroin then coke IIRC), he was to my mind one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Along with Keith Jarrett and Herbie Hancock, he's in my Triumvirate of Piano Gods - a purely subjective opinion, I understand, as there are pretty good arguments that people like Bud Powell, Errol Garner, Fats Waller and Thelonious Monk and many others might well be in there. But, whoever else is on the list, Bill Evans deserves to be there. Enjoy your compendium - you're right, it ~is~ wonderful stuff! cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
