I'm watching this while drinking some wine on what would be a random monday, you know... I decided to lit up some candles, and I'm now watching and listening to Bill and his extremely beautiful playing. Everyday life in a big city dries your soul. This ritual heals it a bit. Funny... One of his purposes being achieved here and now.
I have seen them playing at this home, but not this discussion. What a treat. I love Bill Evans ❤ Thank you again for this opportunity to listen again to these gentlemen playing exquisitely. 🥰 Bill Evans, Eddie Gomez, & Martin Morrell.
This concert takes place at the home of Ilkka Kuusisto (then about 37), Finnish composer (opera), church organist, jazz pianist, radio producer, conductor and opera manager.
BILL EVANS A TOUJOURS ÉTÉ, LE ROI DU LYRISME LE PLUS BEAU ET ABSTRAIT!!! EN PLUS, SES MAINS NE TOUCHENT PAS LE CLAVIER, ELLES LE SURVOLENT, OUVRANT NOTRE IMAGINAIRE...!!! Directement de Salvador-Bahia-BRASIL.
“Aesthetic guiding force.” Bill Evans was in the business of making beautiful music, plain and simple. No fancy talk or pretense, just hard work, talent and dedication. I also notice in the video that the cymbals had a lot of presence in this particular setting.
Listening this music makes the current moment a great time to be alive. My heart is flying. I can't help to feel envy of those listening live, from another live and another time...
+Oswaldo Goite Absolutely. The hushed intimacy of the moment, and yet the utter astonishment that such expressive, intelligent music chose to emerge from silence - and would have vanished into silence (except in the ear of those there to recollect it) were it not for this document - on that unrepeatable occasion.
I remember Bill schlepping around NYC back in 1950s, before his commercial prominence. In fact, he helped me with a piano accompaniment recording a demo featuring a doo-wop group I was promoting at the time. Bill Evans was always great with the public, a pretty shy musician who delivered a transformative experience for everyone who loves jazz and true stylistic innovation. Coltrane was dead wrong to complain to Miles that white guys can't play jazz. Luckily, Miles and music fans of the genre knew better.
They traveled through many time zones and a performance schedule that's probably tight, meeting many people, in and out of hotels and concert halls and at a home in rural Finland on a lake with coffee and hors d' oeuvres and about 10 people and there's this kind of dedication to their art that transcends. They could be at Madison Square Garden or Lincoln Center and it's no matter they enter their realm. There's a spiritual element to each of them with their music and with the people there and they let it flow. It's so great to hear Bill Evans speak and so articulate about such a subjective topic as his art and meaning and philosophy. The quality of the recording and the sharpness of the picture is remarkable and even done so not in a studio or concert hall but in someone's home.... It's so great, whomever they were in Finland, to set it all up to record this, what a contribution, and at an era when the technology to do so was so cumbersome and working in such a small space and so great of Musica Dede El Cono Sur to share this. Thank you!
Hi Peter! By hosts do you mean the family in Finland who hosted the Trio in their home, or the person who posted the recording? I meant the equipment of that era was much more cumbersome, and to fit it all in their own living room, plus the trio etc. Thanks though for the great food for thought. Yes, it is really great! Sincerely 5368mwj
The Finnish host was Ilkka Kuusisto, a very wealthy and very highly regarded classical musician. There were jazz musicians in the family. He no doubt had all the technical connections and influence to pull off this superb video and recording. Happily for us, Evans, Gomez, and Morell played peak performances.
Hopefully, you're still around to read this 4 years from your comment....apparently the performance was done for Finnish State Television which accounts for its video excellence and it was a performance in the house of the rich and famous Finnish conductor IIkka S---- because he owned an extremely rare grand piano favored by Bill Evans. That's the story the conductor's son, a well known jazz pianist at the time, passed on to enquiring minds. I'd assume the fortunate audience were friends and family of the conductor. They were indeed lucky to be present for 3 of Bill's absolutely best improvisations.
this recording of Bill Evans (and Eddie!!) is a revelation, not only for the music, which is extraordinary, but for his lovely improvisational vamp on the nature of jazz, the motivations of its practitioners, and his wonderful presence as a genuine human being--simply marvelous
Can you believe that, The Bill Evans Trio shows up to play in your home...only in Europe can that happen. I really enjoyed listening to him explain the approach to Jazz music...it's all about letting go and relaxing.
It's 4/9/21 and like all great music it sounds as fresh today as it did in 1970 from this great master. I was lucky to see bill at shelly's manne hole in hollywood in the mid-sixties with chuck israels and larry bunker. He did not look as healthy as he does here as it was shortly after scott lafaro's death. This video is a timeless masterpiece coming from a very progressive country.
....Bill Evans an his trio playing these marvellous tunes like Emilie...love his melancholic piano style, also his collaborations with Miles Davis...beautiful Finnish landscape can be seen on some camera shot through the windows
This was fantastic - it's great to see and hear Bill talk about playing. A few comments, though: 1.) I wish Marty had used brushes on "Nardis". Sticks sounded too harsh in that tune. 2.) Man, Bill's teeth! 3.) Somewhere, there is a 50ish guy watching this video saying "crap, that was me picking my nose"
Anthony Cornicello he only really switched to sticks in the later half of the tune, and by then I'd say they were all playing intensively enough to warrant the use of sticks
Amazing how clear and concisely he articulates his thoughts when talking about his music, given his life and death struggle with addiction. So many more years of absolute piano genius for the ages, robbed by his untimely demise. Rest in peace.
Mah,se lui aprezzasse un po sua vita....ma no,no voleva pensandoci che a dirittura Dijo no a diritti su di lui...tutta sta droga...che poteva a che decidere di no fare...e tutto sto egoismo ..lascisndo la moglie per un altra ...che dopo sappiamo...e lasciamo perdere sta ultima laurie...lasciammo perdere...letto libro e sono rimasta scioccata ad apprendere VERA FACCIA DI TUTTE DUE...ABBASTANZA SPIACEVOLE...
No way! I just discovered a classic Madvillain sample (a song called Raid, one of my favorites on the record). Some quick research and I see the song is called Nardis, written by Miles Davis and played by Bill Evans.
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@@antonioarcas3159 Oh yea sounds alike with The Touch of your lips. I remember when I listened to his version of The Touch Of You Lips it reminded me of this video.
A little biographical comment for each of the people/couples gathered would've been an excellent addition. But, hey, the whole show's about this exceptional performance.
Very true, I just want to know who the blonde guy is with the funny teeth lol because I believe he preformed with Bill Evans a couple times during the 70s.
