What an absolute genius. That was the year he died, you can really see how crap he felt, poor guy. So many artists have been their own worst enemy. It's like a bunch of different people all sharing the same vessel. Drugs, alcohol, smoking, and depression have robbed us of many great people too early.
I’ve got a couple kids and they aren't into jazz. But I played Bill Evans for them, and they say, 'Jesus, that's pretty good.' So I think it's great that people are just rediscovering Bill Evans, and I want people to rediscover Bill Evans. I think he's a great artist, and I think more people should listen to him and respect the beauty that he was able to create.
@@jbf2858 oh wow, it was that close to his death? Did he become suddenly ill? I know it was his liver, but I don’t know how he died. I ask only bc that context greatly changes the way I perceive this all. Or at least a little, it’s still charming.
@@nikolademitri731 The immediate cause was hemorrhage, a stomach ulcer, I believe. In addition to that, liver failure, having suffered from hepatitis for many years (and apparently failing to treat it in his last few months), pneumonia and, more broadly, malnourishment. Check out Laurie Verchomin's (Bill's last girlfriend) interviews for more detail on the final year of his life.
I don’t even like this type of music or know anything about it. I like him though, something about his music keeps me listening. It sounds relatable, without speaking a word.
You’re reacting to his music, because you’re sensitive enough to „get“ the universal language; as human beings, we‘re all connected at a deeper level - or higher, if you want -, this is „the universal mind“, according to Bill‘s own words.
Uhh from the documentary i just found out that he was heavy drug addict.. its kinda unexpected to me. Never thought of him like that but only like a fresh glass of a water
Common misconception is that the album was recorded in one take and one day, in reality it was recorded in multiple takes over 2 days, March 2 and April 22, 1959.
I think it's more likely from his extreme cocaine addiction, if cocaine addiction could ever be anything but. He's still lucid, but seeing how physically ill at ease he is here makes me sad.
I wonder how many people do not know that Bill Evans is a natural born left-hander. As a left hander and I will always love his greatest talent and genius on the piano, I can play several instruments, as self taught, but I'm not professional level as a musician, as I've always had a preference for mastering the visual arts. I'm also an astronomer and astronomy artist which I've had my artwork published many times by NASA. I've spoken and lectured about this art and also on National Public Radio several times. I've studied left handedness for over 25 years. If you look at many well-known people in the world that are highly accomplished you'll see a higher percentage of left handedness, in certain fields and professions, that is to say, a higher percentage of left-handed individuals at the tops of these fields, especially in the arts and sciences. Just a quick aside note here. Those such as Bill Gates and Paul Allen of Microsoft, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak of Apple, Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven. Albert Einstein, Dr Richard Feynman, and Dr Linus Pauling, and Dr Carl Sagan, are commonly thought of as about the three or four most admired scientists and/or astrophysicists of the 20th century, aside from the arts. Is it a coincidence that they are all left-handed? Most people are aware that Paul McCartney and Jimi Hendrix play left handed guitar. But who does not know that when they see other famous and genius level musicians playing guitars right-handed, that many of these people are natural born left-handers and geniuses? - Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, David Bowie, David Byrne, Bob Geldof, Robert Fripp, Mark Knopfler, and there are many many more naturally born left-handed people, that play right handed guitar as I do. But sticking with the famous musicians lists, the famous child prodigy classical pianist from Eastern Canada, and through his adulthood for his entire life, Glenn Gould as a natural born left-hander was diagnosed with moderate Asperger's condition in early life. Bill Gates as I mentioned earlier of Microsoft and his co-creator of Microsoft, Paul Allen, are both diagnosed with Asperger's as left-handers. The famous David Byrne of the Talking Heads has moderate to severe Asperger's as a left-hander. Famous actor, Tom Cruise, does everything left-handed but he writes right handed as he was forced trained to write right-handed by Catholic nuns in Catholic boarding schools that he was brought up in. He's also diagnosed with severe dyslexia. So you may see a pattern of where this is going. There are many other great genius pianists such as Erroll Garner, Oscar Peterson, and Sergei Rachmaninoff, as left-handers. There are probably many more I'm forgetting here. And there are many other lists and fields of employment and expertise in the world but if you check all these lists of the greatest, such as thinking of visual artists, as oil painters, and some of them are scientific and combined artists, say, Leonardo Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Picasso, MC Escher, and Vincent van Gogh. People have noted when they see Bill Gates of Microsoft sitting in a crowd before he speaks begore a lecture, he has the same rocking or nodding back and forth motion. So not to carry on too long here but finally it is known scientifically and medically documented that naturally born left-handed people run a higher incidence of autism, Asperger's, dyslexia, and bipolar. When I taught as an agile professor of astronomy they put us through a new class for the new faculty about the human brain prior to the start of the semester. The lady teaching the class was a nurse and a wife to a her husband that was a brain surgeon. This is where I heard the cause of left handedness that was believed in many medical circles since the mid-1980s. The Doctor Norman Geschwind, of a large medical and research University in Maryland studied women's amniotic fluids and found precisely at 6 weeks after conception some mothers show a presence of high testosterone in their amniotic fluids. Geschwind noted that this high testosterone appeared to suppress the left lateral hemisphere of the brain and this allowed the right lateral hemisphere to become more active and also grow extra neurological wiring through the corpus callosum to the left hemisphere. Simply stated the larger right hemisphere brain about 8 months before birth, begins to determine the preference to left-handedness. But the larger capacity and more active right brain also functions as a higher-order computer in left-handed people imparting greater creativity abilities, and thus a natural noted genius level which has been documented in many medical and scientific studies over the past decades. You can follow up by reading noted medical papers in the New England Journal of Medicine and the British Lancet. Some of these papers are lengthy and require some understanding of medical terminology but they're fascinating to research.
Just a visitor on this planet, brief time here then on to the next train. Thanks Bill for what you left behind.
What a beautiful way of describing life on earth, i’ve never heard of anyone else say it like that
Bill Evans was a huge influence on my love of Jazz music. RIP Bill 🙏🏾
The world needs more Bill Evans.
What an incredibly tortured beautiful artistic soul.
What an absolute genius. That was the year he died, you can really see how crap he felt, poor guy. So many artists have been their own worst enemy. It's like a bunch of different people all sharing the same vessel. Drugs, alcohol, smoking, and depression have robbed us of many great people too early.
Such a great man. What a communicator.
I’ve got a couple kids and they aren't into jazz. But I played Bill Evans for them, and they say, 'Jesus, that's pretty good.' So I think it's great that people are just rediscovering Bill Evans, and I want people to rediscover Bill Evans. I think he's a great artist, and I think more people should listen to him and respect the beauty that he was able to create.
It’s hard for non-jazz fans to not hear the beauty in his approach. He was so important.
Amazing understanding of the artistic and perceptual experience. True genius
Bill Evans and McCoy Tyner were the most impressionistic Jazz Piano Player. Piccaso of Music.
That's a great point. McCoy could indeed be very impressionistic, in perhaps a more volcanic, propulsive way.
Man he looks quite rough here. What a beautiful soul still, though.
RIP!
You might not love jazz, but you have to love Evans....and then jazz !!
4:55 such truth
that is truly profound
Totally using that quote to ruin a party when I complain that the music sucks. 🤙🔥
@@BanjoFrog612 king
Love it when he started wearing aviators, looks like a very well seasoned gentleman
Not any more!’ Biden ruined it period!!
3:45 - burp - "excuse me"
The ending was hilarious!
Right? “No, it’s too late. I’m sorry!” *goes off into the darkness*
He has no chill
@@lumirogen8949 He's super chill to sit through that BS interview, 4 weeks before passing away. Plus he had a date with TWA.
@@jbf2858 oh wow, it was that close to his death? Did he become suddenly ill? I know it was his liver, but I don’t know how he died. I ask only bc that context greatly changes the way I perceive this all. Or at least a little, it’s still charming.
@@nikolademitri731 The immediate cause was hemorrhage, a stomach ulcer, I believe. In addition to that, liver failure, having suffered from hepatitis for many years (and apparently failing to treat it in his last few months), pneumonia and, more broadly, malnourishment. Check out Laurie Verchomin's (Bill's last girlfriend) interviews for more detail on the final year of his life.
Wonderful, the stuff he said about art couldn't be anymore spot on
Bill was so articulate. He speaks like he plays.
5.11....so very very true. Im so appreciative of what I've discovered in Bill's art. Thank you to covid for the opportunity
Man he's high as fuck. Same demeanor as late Jerry Garcia.
I don’t even like this type of music or know anything about it. I like him though, something about his music keeps me listening. It sounds relatable, without speaking a word.
Sounds like you like this type music, now :)
@@GREENMAYNE maybe, I tried. Do you have any recommendations?
You’re reacting to his music, because you’re sensitive enough to „get“ the universal language; as human beings, we‘re all connected at a deeper level - or higher, if you want -, this is „the universal mind“, according to Bill‘s own words.
@@GestattenWinnetou "My foolish heart" haunted me in my dreams when I first heard it.
@@mrc8049 may I suggest Ahmad Jamal trip-I love music, spain-chic corea. Probably the first jazz songs I got into :)
Artist...
What a legend!
Rocking back and forth like when he plays
I think thats because of all of the drugs his taking at this point of his life 💀
He looks and sounds a lot like Marc Maron here :D
I was thinking he looked and sounded like someone! Lol,
A very cool wise man. I wonder what year this interview was recorded? Mr Evans is wearing a 1970s style dagger collar shirt.
It was probably 1978 - 1980, somewhere around there.
Aug 9, 1980 - the Molde Jazz Festival, Norway i believe.
Uhh from the documentary i just found out that he was heavy drug addict.. its kinda unexpected to me. Never thought of him like that but only like a fresh glass of a water
1:42
i need those glasss
One month or so before his death. RIP
5.02 so true
The interviewer is not up to the level to interview this genius
exactly
How so?
He did fine
American treasure
i hope he wasn't mean to his wife and kids.
When was this made? 1980?
yep
august 9th. 1980.
@@Wildrover82 Wow, he died only a month later
AhYaOkRgT i don't know what the guy asked at the very end and bill refused but he maybe regretted not to ask sooner since he died weeks after.
@@GrumpyStormtrooper He was asking for a photo.
Kind of Blue was recorded in one day
Common misconception is that the album was recorded in one take and one day, in reality it was recorded in multiple takes over 2 days, March 2 and April 22, 1959.
@@bernardopkmDP178 still that’s unbelievable that the chemistry was so strong in the studio
So who was it, Phily Joe or Jimmy Cobb?
You'd think Bill would have recognized the drummer no matter what the album credits said.
Similarities in his speaking with that of Chet Baker. His rocking back and forth here is indicative of something.
Ulcer, literally killing him.
He was a drug addict and in constant emotional turmoil. Very sad.
would be great with audio
Does him swinging back and forth throughout the interview have to do with his heroin habit?
Michael Seltenreich I think so😞
pretty sure bill quit heroin and switched to cocaine in the 70's
Probably more like a fidget, being a shy person who doesn't particularly feel comfortable being interviewed by a stranger.
I think it's more likely from his extreme cocaine addiction, if cocaine addiction could ever be anything but. He's still lucid, but seeing how physically ill at ease he is here makes me sad.
I wonder how many people do not know that Bill Evans is a natural born left-hander. As a left hander and I will always love his greatest talent and genius on the piano, I can play several instruments, as self taught, but I'm not professional level as a musician, as I've always had a preference for mastering the visual arts. I'm also an astronomer and astronomy artist which I've had my artwork published many times by NASA. I've spoken and lectured about this art and also on National Public Radio several times.
I've studied left handedness for over 25 years. If you look at many well-known people in the world that are highly accomplished you'll see a higher percentage of left handedness, in certain fields and professions, that is to say, a higher percentage of left-handed individuals at the tops of these fields, especially in the arts and sciences.
Just a quick aside note here. Those such as Bill Gates and Paul Allen of Microsoft, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak of Apple, Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven. Albert Einstein, Dr Richard Feynman, and Dr Linus Pauling, and Dr Carl Sagan, are commonly thought of as about the three or four most admired scientists and/or astrophysicists of the 20th century, aside from the arts. Is it a coincidence that they are all left-handed?
Most people are aware that Paul McCartney and Jimi Hendrix play left handed guitar. But who does not know that when they see other famous and genius level musicians playing guitars right-handed, that many of these people are natural born left-handers and geniuses? - Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, David Bowie, David Byrne, Bob Geldof, Robert Fripp, Mark Knopfler, and there are many many more naturally born left-handed people, that play right handed guitar as I do.
But sticking with the famous musicians lists, the famous child prodigy classical pianist from Eastern Canada, and through his adulthood for his entire life, Glenn Gould as a natural born left-hander was diagnosed with moderate Asperger's condition in early life. Bill Gates as I mentioned earlier of Microsoft and his co-creator of Microsoft, Paul Allen, are both diagnosed with Asperger's as left-handers. The famous David Byrne of the Talking Heads has moderate to severe Asperger's as a left-hander.
Famous actor, Tom Cruise, does everything left-handed but he writes right handed as he was forced trained to write right-handed by Catholic nuns in Catholic boarding schools that he was brought up in. He's also diagnosed with severe dyslexia.
So you may see a pattern of where this is going. There are many other great genius pianists such as Erroll Garner, Oscar Peterson, and Sergei Rachmaninoff, as left-handers. There are probably many more I'm forgetting here.
And there are many other lists and fields of employment and expertise in the world but if you check all these lists of the greatest, such as thinking of visual artists, as oil painters, and some of them are scientific and combined artists, say, Leonardo Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Picasso, MC Escher, and Vincent van Gogh.
People have noted when they see Bill Gates of Microsoft sitting in a crowd before he speaks begore a lecture, he has the same rocking or nodding back and forth motion. So not to carry on too long here but finally it is known scientifically and medically documented that naturally born left-handed people run a higher incidence of autism, Asperger's, dyslexia, and bipolar.
When I taught as an agile professor of astronomy they put us through a new class for the new faculty about the human brain prior to the start of the semester. The lady teaching the class was a nurse and a wife to a her husband that was a brain surgeon. This is where I heard the cause of left handedness that was believed in many medical circles since the mid-1980s.
The Doctor Norman Geschwind, of a large medical and research University in Maryland studied women's amniotic fluids and found precisely at 6 weeks after conception some mothers show a presence of high testosterone in their amniotic fluids. Geschwind noted that this high testosterone appeared to suppress the left lateral hemisphere of the brain and this allowed the right lateral hemisphere to become more active and also grow extra neurological wiring through the corpus callosum to the left hemisphere. Simply stated the larger right hemisphere brain about 8 months before birth, begins to determine the preference to left-handedness. But the larger capacity and more active right brain also functions as a higher-order computer in left-handed people imparting greater creativity abilities, and thus a natural noted genius level which has been documented in many medical and scientific studies over the past decades.
You can follow up by reading noted medical papers in the New England Journal of Medicine and the British Lancet. Some of these papers are lengthy and require some understanding of medical terminology but they're fascinating to research.