CORRECTION: Joe Henderson's recording of Nardis appeared on The Kicker, not Page One. Both are good albums, though I actually prefer The Kicker, so that works out well for you. Thanks to u/profscumbag on Reddit for the fact check.
I don’t know why some people are mad about people learning about Nardis through madlib. I think it is good because it is bringing people to jazz and great songs like Nardis.
1000% man - so many modern jazz players came to it through rock or pop (Pat Metheny anyone?) so I think this is the same. The popular music of the day might have changed, but it's the same process
It's not the first time people have learned about jazz through hip-hop A Tribe Called Quest has put a lot of people onto jazz. My 94 year old father put me on to Jazz.
I've always viewed "NARDIS" as the great Miles Davis song that Bill Evans "owned". Meanwhile, "Blue in Green" is the great Bill Evans song that Miles Davis "owned". 😎
Came from Reddit. Absolutely love this kind of content. Songs have stories and crucial moments behind them. To get to know the details truly makes the song even more special. Nardis is one of my all time favorites. Awesome video
Thanks Francisco, really appreciate that! And I totally agree - when I was getting really serious about learning the repertoire I found it really useful to learn the background of a tune, so I guess I'm trying to make stuff that would have made it easier for me at that time.
In the version on Bill Evans' Explorations, the beginning of the head goes back to Emaj7 very quickly: Em7 - Fmaj7 - *Emaj7 - B7 - Cmaj7 - Fmaj7 - Emaj7 - Emin7. In every other version and even the soloing it usually goes straight to the B7, but I always liked that little detail in that arrangement.
Why no one ever mentions Ralph Towner's many Solo versions of Nardis is beyond me. Always acoustic using classical technique he plays piano really well and the guitar very pianistically. A master who's always gone his own way as great a composer as you'll ever find no really. A humble servant of the music.
I’m 65 years old and have been a fan of Bill Evans since I was a teenager. I saw Bill live many times and feel like he played Nardis most of those dates. With the exception of the jazz musicians who were contemporaries of Evans, I never heard of most of the musicians you mention in this video until tonight. Now I have plenty of new stuff to check out. Thanks.
I first heard Nardis two years ago through "Raid" off Madvilliany, fast forward two years and now I've been taking jazz piano lessons, learning standards, improv, the whole jazz shebang. In the short-time I've been studying jazz, I've already become 10x the musician I was before, so in more ways than one Nardis changed my life haha.
Subbed! Great vid! Fellow keen jazz amateur & MF DOOM fanatic. There's a reason there is overlap between those two groups in the venn diagram. DOOM understood and had impeccable taste in music.
Great video! I knew there was some connection to be made with Untitled 5 but was never sure how to find out what it was. Everything makes sense now. Some outstanding musicianship from everyone involved
Nope, you’re not the only one 😂 I grew up (born in 1978) listening to this and it BURNED my brain. During college I tended bar at a really great little jazz club that had a modicum of notoriety associated with it and I got to hear great music, solidifying my deep love of jazz for eternity. I like this dissection. Nice piece 👌🏻
I had the honor of playing this with my closest buds and i can say without a doubt it was the most magical experience I’ve had on stage. We stumbled on it by chance in the real book and still joke about it to this day
It is spelled backwards, it's SID RAN. It's about the white jazz promoter Symphony Sid whom he punched in the face at a club. He hated that dude. So im guessing he's mocking him by calling it SID RAN. The music actually sounds like a guy running away from a fight. :)
That was great! Not sure if you were interested in other songs that sampled nardis but Madlib first used this sample on the track “on point” while producing for his hip hop group called “the lootpack”.
Thanks so much for all this background on Bill Evans. I've been a fan since I started playing jazz piano in the early 60s after I heard Kinda Blue. Looking forward to the other videos.
This quality of this video (and channel) is exceptionally high - I LOVED watching this, stayed entertained the entire way through. I actually really loved your demonstration of Nardis on guitar + Rhodes at the start of the video, I wish I could hear more of it hahaha (if you have it uploaded somewhere please let me know!) Keep up the amazing work, your channel deserves wayyyyy more recognition and I’m confident it will come with time :)
Yeah I've been listening to it on repeat the last few days. I really like hearing how modern players approach standards, it shows off their personal style in a more familiar context, which is always cool.
Hey, I appreciate this. I'm a bass player and I have been on the Japanese jazz for a while now. The bass lines are something I am learning right now. They do bass lines kind of different than what the US has been playing for years. Basically, the grooves (japanese), go a difference way. Ex: we may do major bass lines,...where in my mind, the japanese will do a major bass line and head off into a minor groove instead of you being able to predict the next note. So, that make me sound different around my bass friends. If that makes since. :D
@@TheGlippe like "CASIOPEA" just look them up and scale through some of their tunes. Wait a minute let me check for 2 particular one I know you'll like,...hold up a second. Try these two,..."MIDNUGHT RENDEZVOUS and SET SAIL. Listen how they groove on off key style. Let me know what you hear. I'm down for hearing others opinions as well. Kind of like, we help each other. 👌😉
@@11coopbasscooper55I can dig it. I'm a self taught trad jazz guy with a lot of gaps in basic music theory. That being said, In midnight I hear a tune in e minor but I dont hear a definite e minor chord. Sound more like E7. Which is cool. The bass isn't time keeping so much as being free to serve the song in its own unique way. I really didnt like this type of music at first. I remember a lot of high school jazz guys liking this stuff: I thought it just sounded plastic. Something that you could use as a soundtrack to an instructional video from the eighties. Its definitely grown on me since then. Vaporwave sounds like it uses tracks from this genre. There is alot of good stuff for a bass player to check out in this music especially if you do the slap bass guitar.
Great video. My favourite version (bc it's the only version I know) is Lenny Breau playing it with Dick Cotton. That whole album is, IMO, the absolute pinnacle of Lenny's playing.
I noticed 379,043 times Bill Evans live in Helsinki views in what appears to be a personal residence. 200+ views are me! Each time I watch it, I love it. I have every piano note memorized. Bill Evans annihilates this song.
“Setting Sun” by a late 90s hip hop group called Unspoken Heard was the first time I heard Nardis .. I’ve heard a million versions since.. brilliant tune
Aside from the songs on Kind of Blue... an album essentially built around Bill Evans' piano style. Yeah, since Bill Evans composed some of the songs and contributed greatly to the others.
Richie Beirach played a beautifully haunting version of the song on his trio album "Eon" for ECM records (1975). Frank Tusa and Jeff Williams joined him on the date.
I've been listening to Evan's recording of this as well as some other artist's, and I found that while that E major chord is played on the melody of the song, on the solos that chord is always substituted for an E minor: the E major chord is never played. If you, or anynone, hace some insights about this, I would love to hear them. Great work!
My interpretation of that would be that it's just a lot of chords to play in a small space and it's easier to solo over a track when it has simpler chords yk
Came late. But I've actually noticed that the melody of the A section outlines the E Double Harmonic Major scale, especially because of it using that Emaj7 with the b2 on the last bar leading to the Emin7.
This video was such a great random find since a Miles is my favorite artist of all time. I love Evans, Doom & Lamar...BTW I didn't even know Lamar song sample Nardis.
@@TimBeauBennett thank you...I'm also got a idea for you... Wynton & Miles both record a album in tribute to Jack Johnson (Boxer,) I can't think of two albums that clearly shows the difference musical point of view of both artist.
I instantly recognized two Kendrick Lamar songs that uses the Nardis vibe when you played the chords. “How much a dollar costs” is the other one. The chords aren’t the same but the vibe feels the same to me
Great video. Check out Richard Beirach's version on his 1974 album Eon. Brings an entirely different perspective to the tune while maintaining the spirit.
I want to suggest (as many have before me - Google Richie Beirach on who wrote Nardis) that Bill Evans is the real composer of Nardis. Many people suspect that Kind of Blue as well was written by Bill Evans. I tend to agree. There is something in those melodies that harken to Evans playing in general. There's no way to know for sure, but I believe that thinking about it enhances listening to the tunes for their harmonic sophistication and structural depth. To me, they reflect Bill Evans more than they do Miles.
Jorge Pardo Las zigarras son quizas sordas" Nardis......OOOOH,Boy!! In this album ,Jorge, (Flute and Sax) made versions of Miles Davis tracks, mixing Jazz and flamenco ,,,awesome!
Great video. Have you heard the Ralph Towner version from his 1979 album "Solo concert"? I love this versions but I look forward to ear the versions you suggest.
Totally, I would have loved to hear him play it. I don't LOVE the cannonball version, but I still enjoy it if I listen to it, if that makes sense. To be fair though it is a weird tune and it was the first time anyone had taken a crack at it
Just got here so for your interest : A rare Richard Beirach album on the Japanese "Trio" (Kenwood) label ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jW-i-mIjjIs.html And another Beirach take here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2VWLgFHWTwE.html Someone earlier mentioned his version from the album "Eon" which is definitely worth hearing 👍
