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'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". 😎
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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 👌🏻
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.
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”.
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
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.
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.
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.
Just got here so for your interest : A rare Richard Beirach album on the Japanese "Trio" (Kenwood) label ua-cam.com/video/jW-i-mIjjIs/v-deo.html And another Beirach take here ua-cam.com/video/2VWLgFHWTwE/v-deo.html Someone earlier mentioned his version from the album "Eon" which is definitely worth hearing 👍
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.
“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
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.
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.
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. Check out Richard Beirach's version on his 1974 album Eon. Brings an entirely different perspective to the tune while maintaining the spirit.
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.
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
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 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.
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
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
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'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". 😎
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.
@@ramsesstafford4640 this is true, I’m heavily into jazz and started getting into it through Tribe, Pete, nujabes and them guys
me, remembering when i got into hip hop through jazz when i was 19 in 2013.
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.
isn't there a Am7 between Cmaj7 and Fmaj7
I agree though I really like the explorations version too
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.
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.
Heck yeah - I feel like people having great taste is the first and most important step in making great music. DOOM had that locked
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.
came for the jazz history, stayed for the castle clip
Me too my dude, me too.
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
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.
Your videos are criminally underated I enjoy them so much!
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 👌🏻
Hey cheers, much appreciated. Was a fun one to make, just got to listen to rad tunes for a few weeks.
@@TimBeauBennett you’ve got a nice gig going!
I appreciate how well you share the info too!
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 :)
My favourite version is Chet Baker trio on the album Candy. Check it out! There's a video recording of the session on UA-cam.
thundercat, terrance, kamasi, glasper, and chris dave is a fucking crazy band, still so glad we got that lmao
Thanks for the reminder of how awesome that Mike Stern album is! Nardis I do always think of Bill Evans, great video - and good luck with the channel!
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.
What an awesome video about one of my favorite songs. Thanks for linking so many different eras and artists!
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”.
Yeah definitely keen to check it out, thanks for the tip!
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
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.
Thanks for mentioning this. I just checked it out. Great stuff.
Loved the video! I'm pretty sure the Mike Stern version is just in 4/4 but obscuring common time by emphasizing changes on beat 3
Yeah I was thrown by this too. I listened to it a few times and I agree that it's common time. Still a great video though!
I can only thank you for this amazing article, incredible comments! Thank you!
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.
What's the name of that recording ? Thx.
Joe Henderson's version of Nardis was on his "The Kicker" album.
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
Hey man, that's cool. Could you suggest a recording that illustrates that?
@@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.
Man you deserve more and more views videos are amazing by all means
Haha thanks man - if I can get around to finishing the videos I've already got taped then that might help!
Just got here so for your interest : A rare Richard Beirach album on the Japanese "Trio" (Kenwood) label ua-cam.com/video/jW-i-mIjjIs/v-deo.html And another Beirach take here ua-cam.com/video/2VWLgFHWTwE/v-deo.html Someone earlier mentioned his version from the album "Eon" which is definitely worth hearing 👍
I found Nardis through the Madvillain sample but only today did I discover that it was sampled in untitled 05. God I love digging through samples
You really do ya homework! Chris Dave, Mike Stern too!
Nardis on George Russel's Ezz-thetics with Eric Dolphy is sick too
This is super cool to learn about. I had no idea that Nardis was sampled in one of my fav MF DOOM songs, AND one of my fav Kendrick songs
Fantastic Video! Great explanations of the history and future of this amazing song. Taught me a lot.
I honestly don't understand how u haven't got more views/subs my man. I really enjoy your content! Thanks a lot
Haha thanks Jens. I think my lack of consistency in uploading isn't helping! But hey, I have two half edited videos for you to look forward to...
@@TimBeauBennett Awesome 🙏😌
Massive fan of the Mike Stern version of Nardis here. Great video, thanks!
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.
Fantastic content. Happy to have found your niche channel!
Bro, all the best! Thanks for this effort.
“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
Another great video. Keep it up, man!
Cheers dude - thanks for coming back. Relevant to your avatar, I re-watched the original muppets movie the other day - still holds up.
What about Chet Baker’s version on 1985 LP Candy with a beautiful piano introduction by JL Rassinfosse and Michel Graillier on the bass, beautiful!!
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.
I've actually had a friend recommend me it just this morning! I haven't checked it out but I certainly will. Thanks for watching!
@@TimBeauBennett very great version by Ralph Towner, it’s also a good pianist!
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.
Tony Rice Unit is my first exposure to this classic and really the sweetest version i know. And still my favorite. Check it out when you get a chance.
Wow, thanks for this. One of my favourite jazz tunes!
Patricia Barber’s version off the album Cafe Blue is monumental!!!
Great content. Thanks! Will be tuning in to more videos.
"its just the vibe of it" that was perfect. imagine being a jazz lawyer, in court for defending all these criminally cool tunes. wish that was a job.
You know it would be great. Although with all the copyright lawsuits being thrown around these days, I wonder if we're not that far off...
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!
Awesome video and production quality! Subscribed:)
Cheers! Thanks for checking it out
Chet Baker also recorded some wonderful versions of Nardis.
This is a great video. I'd definitely watch more like this!
There are more in the works! Thanks Matthew
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.
Had no idea this became a crossover pop hit! Cool!
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.
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
Also came from reddit; this is damn great content!
Cheers Edmond - thanks for saying so!
I love Chet Baker at Gazell library version. Don't miss the piano intro, it's an absolute perfection.
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.
Awesome, glad you dug it! Yeah there are so many sweet jazz samples in hip hop, I'll try to do more vidyas on them in the Future
@@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.
Actually that's a very cool idea - both of them have such different attitudes to music too
Great overview of the song and its various incarnations. Thanks much!
Tony Rice, the great bluegrass guitarist, recorded this tune a few times.
Philip Catherine's album "I Remember You" has a nice version of "Nardis", too.
Well done man! Super interesting and informative
Great video!
Definitely way cooler than me.
YOOOO UNTITLED 05 IS MY SHIT SHOUT OUT TERRACE MARTIN. THUNDERCAT TOO. THIS IS DOPE. DIDNT EVEN CATCH THE NARDIS INNIT!!!!💯
YOOOO I COMPLETELY AGREE WITH THIS COMMENT!!!!
Great standard, and great video!
Is there anything in this world that gives away similar vibes this masterpiece does ?
Listen to joe Henderson el barrio not exactly but you’ll be very glad you listened
Imagine this dude telling you to listen to something because it makes you 'hip'. FML
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.
Great video brother
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
If anyone wants to hear what Miles might of sound like on this tune, check out Wallace Roney on Cody Moffett's album Evidence
Having heard Evans’ voice in the interview, yeah I can see how he would have said “I’m a nardis” 😄
I recommend Chet Bakers duet with piano on Nardis from the 80s. It's here on youtube.
Chet baker. 1985
Tony Rice’s bluegrass version is also killin
On the version of Bill Evans on this video, Eddie Gomez is phenomenal.
i loveee nardis in all versions
Great video! I hope there’s an alternate universe where that Bill Evans biopic starring Crispin Glover got made to much acclaim.
There must have been someone who tried to make it happen at some point, surely. I'll assume that alternate reality exists under proven otherwise
Always thought if they ever make Bill Evan's movie he should play him
oh this series is great to smoke to. Thanks man
Great video. I still love the Cannonball version. It's really unfortunate that Miles never recorded a version of it.
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
Awesome content, man. Keep it up!
Thanks for checking it out!
I always thought that Nardis was vernacular for "no, this" (as in, "not that")
Mike Stern is so fucking underrated that it's disgusting. That kind of shit gives me mood swings.
Any chance that anyone was inspired by Camillo de Nardis? Thank you!
If you can hear Emily Remler you would freak. I have it. I want to post it but it's just audio and I'm not sure how.
brilliant breakdown! new sub here
What a great video, glad I got it in my recommended page
Hey cheers! Glad you liked it.
Nardis, by the artist
working the hardest
don't discard this video, it's super nice
Mike Stern cop the intro from Bill Evans. This is the only recording of that intro with Bill Evans Trio live.
Explorations album to me has the essential version on Bills headline
I understand that legally MF DOOM was english, but he was a New Yorker through and through.
Statik Selektah sampled this as well!
Great vid! Love bill evans!
amazing content. thank you!
This channel looks very good.
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A Bullcrap void, in fact....
......I will investigate further.😊
good stuff!
Is there a vibes version of this song?