Latest Release
- 1 MAR 2024
- 8 Songs
- Keepnews Collection: Portrait In Jazz · 1959
- Undercurrent · 1962
- Everybody Digs Bill Evans (Keepnews Collection) · 1959
- Undercurrent · 1962
- Everybody Digs Bill Evans (Keepnews Collection) · 1959
- The Bill Evans Album · 1971
- Know What I Mean? (Remastered) · 1961
- The Interplay Sessions [2-fer] · 1959
- You Must Believe In Spring (Remastered 2022) · 1981
- Everybody Still Digs Bill Evans · 1959
Essential Albums
- 2019
- 2016
- 2013
Artist Playlists
- A piano player with soul and a modernist and challenging edge.
- The legendary pianist brings his unique sense of swing to these classic jazz cuts.
- Pristine pianism and subtle adventurism by stylistic descendants.
- Solo essays, fusion experiments and orchestral interludes.
- Lean back and relax with some of their mellowest cuts.
Singles & EPs
- Cannonball Adderley
- George Russell and His Orchestra
- Cannonball Adderley
About Bill Evans
Bill Evans started on the piano at age six, eventually parlaying his skills into gigs at dances and weddings before he graduated from high school. ∙ He attended Southeastern Louisiana University on a flute scholarship and earned bachelor’s degrees in piano and music education in 1950. ∙ Just after college graduation, Evans joined a band led by Herbie Fields that backed Billie Holiday on tour. ∙ In 1958, Evans joined Miles Davis’ sextet, which also featured John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderley. ∙ In 1959, he performed on and wrote music for Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue and played piano on most of Chet Baker's Chet. ∙ He collaborated with Tony Bennett on two albums: 1975’s The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album and 1977’s Together Again. ∙ He posthumously won Grammy Awards for two different albums: 1979’s We Will Meet Again and 1980’s I Will Say Goodbye.
- HOMETOWN
- Plainfield, NJ, United States
- BORN
- 16 août 1929
- GENRE
- Jazz