# Your Favorite Bill Evans YouTube Clip **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 14, 2010, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-bill-evans-youtube-clip/553745 "2010-09-14T17:27:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-bill-evans-youtube-clip/553745/1 "2010-09-14T17:27:04Z")
When Eliane Elias was on Marian McPartland’s _Piano Jazz_ not long ago, she mentioned a song Bill Evans had given her husband Marc Johnson on tape and that she had taken and provided lyrics for it and released it as a new song. At the time of her visit with Marian, there was a link to > **[Dear Bill: From Brazil, With Love, Eliane](https://www.npr.org/2008/02/27/43637288/dear-bill-from-brazil-with-love-eliane)** > > Eliane Elias grew up listening to the music of jazz pianist Bill Evans in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Now an accomplished pianist and singer in her own right, she shares a small selection of her favorite trio, duet, and solo recordings. Dear Bill: From Brazil, With Love, Eliane On there there are links to six Evans performances including “Nardis” [http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=43637288&m=19352423](http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=43637288&m=19352423) which is well beyond fantastic. Yesterday I tried to see if YouTube has the same version, with no luck yet, but with a link to one that is fine in its own right: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XA-dcNbqQc) I spent several hours last night listening to Evans clips on YouTube and am having a hard time picking a “best” one. Thought I’d share that with Evans fans for whatever purpose we can make of it. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-bill-evans-youtube-clip/553745/2 "2010-09-14T17:31:09Z")
Huge fan - the 3CD reissue of [Live at the Village Vanguard](http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Village-Vanguard-Recordings-1961/dp/B000AMJEKA)is a favorite of mine. I will try to give this a listen - thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-bill-evans-youtube-clip/553745/3 "2010-09-14T19:25:29Z")
Holy shit, that reissue of the Vanguard sets looks amazing. I had no idea it existed. My favorites are his “Conversations with Myself” (especially his great blues feel and walking bass on “Blue Monk”), “Explorations” (my favorite with the LaFaro/Motian trio), “Moonbeams” and the “Turn Out the Stars” box set from the early 1980s (if I remember the name correctly – with Johnson and Joe La Barbera). “Everybody Digs…Bill Evans” is also great with Philly Joe on drums – Clark Coolidge has some good stuff on that album in his very rich paperback “Now It’s Jazz.” I can’t do Youtube links now, but I’m sure they’re all up there somewhere or on Rhapsody. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-bill-evans-youtube-clip/553745/4 "2010-09-14T19:45:59Z")
> [@Jaledin](#): > > Holy shit, that reissue of the Vanguard sets looks amazing. I had no idea it existed. My favorites are his “Conversations with Myself” (especially his great blues feel and walking bass on “Blue Monk”), “Explorations” (my favorite with the LaFaro/Motian trio), “Moonbeams” and the “Turn Out the Stars” box set from the early 1980s (if I remember the name correctly – with Johnson and Joe La Barbera). “Everybody Digs…Bill Evans” is also great with Philly Joe on drums – Clark Coolidge has some good stuff on that album in his very rich paperback “Now It’s Jazz.” > > I can’t do Youtube links now, but I’m sure they’re all up there somewhere or on Rhapsody. That _Danny Boy_ clip you linked to is fine! Next to the _Nardis_ played in that Finnish living room, I was much impressed with [Bill Evans - “Here’s that rainy day”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJzIvj9IKcM) ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-bill-evans-youtube-clip/553745/5 "2010-09-14T21:07:57Z")
This one is going to be hard to top! [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/I-ta8S9OTmo/hqdefault.jpg "Bill Evans - Minority") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-ta8S9OTmo) Bill Evans - Minority ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-bill-evans-youtube-clip/553745/6 "2010-09-14T22:43:22Z")
Also a must-hear: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY6xj-AE4Hw) 'Round Midnight - Bill Evans Trio I have yet to get a reasonable count at YouTube. Must be at least 100 Evans things. ---
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-bill-evans-youtube-clip/553745/7 "2010-09-15T03:14:37Z")
That was great hearing “Minority” again – nothing like it with PHILLY EFFING JOE hitting it and with Bill’s wild sense of pushing against the time. Gigi Gryce, who wrote the tune, has some great records as well, under his own name, with some of the best players around then with him. Great writer, no slouch as a performer as well, terrific combo leader. ---
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-bill-evans-youtube-clip/553745/8 "2010-09-15T03:26:20Z")
This is one of my favorites from the 1961 Vanguard sessions: [Detour Ahead](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YigeXvrJilk). I can still remember when, after having owned the album for quite a while, “getting it” while listening with cans on a crummy bus in a crummy little town. Here’s[Billie Holliday](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDO-O5GnTr8&p=0221039C1A90DECF&playnext=1&index=27) singing it. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-bill-evans-youtube-clip/553745/9 "2010-09-15T13:36:12Z")
> [@Jaledin](#): > > This is one of my favorites from the 1961 Vanguard sessions: [Detour Ahead](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YigeXvrJilk). I can still remember when, after having owned the album for quite a while, “getting it” while listening with cans on a crummy bus in a crummy little town. Here’s[Billie Holliday](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDO-O5GnTr8&p=0221039C1A90DECF&playnext=1&index=27) singing it. Excellent tune, great renditions. I went ahead and listened to the Eliane Elias version, too, and something about that one made me remember that the sound I kept hearing in the tune that I knew I had heard before was from Kurt Elling! That’s been years, on the radio, but the thing was stuck in my memory. Much like the way _Minority_ was back there somewhere! What you say about Gigi Gryce is a lot like so many of the guys who were active when I first became aware of jazz as the music I prefer. They never made it to the same level of “big time” that guys like Miles and Brubeck and Stan Getz did, but their stamp on the sounds, by way of tunes they either wrote or had superior versions of, has stuck with me in the background. I’ll hear a tune and think of one of those old versions, or one that sounds like it and be taken back to those old times. There have to be dozens if not hundreds of guys like that. Not to veer to far away from the Bill Evans thing, but just to give an example of what I mean along the _Minority_ lines, this oldie from Brownie is a perfect example: [CLIFFORD BROWN & MAX ROACH / Gertrude’s Bounce](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkO9V_rjs4c) which I can’t hear without thinking of _There Will Never Be Another You_ – and vice versa. It took me years to identify the tune after having heard it on the radio. That happens often enough to be a big thrill to me. That’s how _Minority_ felt yesterday. And _Detour Ahead_ now. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2010, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-bill-evans-youtube-clip/553745/10 "2010-09-17T00:04:08Z")
It’s hard to stop listening to Evans! I must have spent three hours at least doing just that. Here’s an exceptional one: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/R5rF1rAOY2w/hqdefault.jpg "Bill Evans Trio - My Man's Gone Now") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5rF1rAOY2w) Bill Evans Trio - My Man’s Gone Now ---
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2010, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-bill-evans-youtube-clip/553745/11 "2010-09-18T15:05:19Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Not to veer to far away from the Bill Evans thing, but just to give an example of what I mean along the _Minority_ lines, this oldie from Brownie is a perfect example: [CLIFFORD BROWN & MAX ROACH / Gertrude’s Bounce](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkO9V_rjs4c) which I can’t hear without thinking of _There Will Never Be Another You_ – and vice versa. I think “Split Kick” (written by Clifford?) off one of Clifford Brown’s earlier Blue Notes with Lou Donaldson and Horace Silver is off the same changes as “There Will Never Be Another You.” My personal favorite is Jimmy McGriff’s TWNBAY from “Live at the Apollo,” but I like that stuff. “My Man’s Gone Now” – I don’t have any words for how deep that one has always hit me played by Bill. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-bill-evans-youtube-clip/553745/12 "2010-09-20T13:22:41Z")
> [@Jaledin](#): > > > [@Zeldar](#): > > > > Not to veer to far away from the Bill Evans thing, but just to give an example of what I mean along the _Minority_ lines, this oldie from Brownie is a perfect example: [CLIFFORD BROWN & MAX ROACH / Gertrude’s Bounce](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkO9V_rjs4c) which I can’t hear without thinking of _There Will Never Be Another You_ – and vice versa. > > I think “Split Kick” (written by Clifford?) off one of Clifford Brown’s earlier Blue Notes with Lou Donaldson and Horace Silver is off the same changes as “There Will Never Be Another You.” My personal favorite is Jimmy McGriff’s TWNBAY from “Live at the Apollo,” but I like that stuff. > > “My Man’s Gone Now” – I don’t have any words for how deep that one has always hit me played by Bill. On the outside and unlikely chance that the term is not a familiar one, you might enjoy what’s said at [Contrafact - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrafacts) and > **[List of jazz contrafacts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_jazz_contrafacts)** > > A contrafact is a musical composition built using the chord progression of a pre-existing piece, but with a new melody and arrangement. Typically the original tune's progression and song form will be reused but occasionally just a section will be reused in the new composition. The term comes from classical music and was first applied to jazz by musicologists in the 1970s and 1980s.\[citation needed\] > Contrafacts by notable jazz artists include: > B "Honeysuckle Rose" > B 1930 I got myself into a real head-scratching ordeal yesterday trying to remember the name of, and thus the spelling of, one of those tunes like _Minority_ that’s so familiar as a tune and yet not quite as familiar as a name. I remembered having heard words to it (a la Jon Hendricks or somebody like him) and it kept coming back to me as “last time I/he saw \_\_\_\_\_” and something along the lines of “janine” or a similar sounding name. I think it may have been gambling on Manhattan Transfer that finally lead to all this: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/L2hJPU2nlrk/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-BIAC4AOKAgwIABABGH8gQigTMA8=&rs=AOn4CLCYdnA8A6LLODQqjOOVFZi7N9A-BQ "Manhattan Transfer - Last Time I Saw Janine") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2hJPU2nlrk) Manhattan Transfer - Last Time I Saw Janine [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/b2qinQNlL-0/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AHeAoACoAKKAgwIABABGH8gHygZMA8=&rs=AOn4CLDk7IvweEZUH1d4h7jHjPF2STm0Dg "Jeanine") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2qinQNlL-0) Jeanine > **[Duke Pearson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Pearson)** > > Columbus Calvin "Duke" Pearson Jr. (August 17, 1932 – August 4, 1980) was an American jazz pianist and composer. Allmusic describes him as having a "big part in shaping the Blue Note label's hard bop direction in the 1960s as a record producer." > Pearson was born Columbus Calvin Pearson Jr. in Atlanta, Georgia, to Columbus Calvin and Emily Pearson. The moniker "Duke" was given to him by his uncle, who was a great admirer of Duke Ellington. Before he was six, his mother started giving him piano... Pearson’s compositions include the now standard, frequently covered “Jeannine”, composed c. 1960, an early cover of which appears on the Cannonball Adderley album Them Dirty Blues (1960). > **[Answers - The Most Trusted Place for Answering Life's Questions](https://www.answers.com/redirectSearch?query=duke-pearson)** > > Answers is the place to go to get the answers you need and to ask the questions you want https://www.youtube.com/embed/_DMtWyrY6uI?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque Cannonball Adderley “Jeannine” (1960) The real question is: how long will I be able to remember the name and the composer now that I have seen it in print! The next thing is to try to locate a Bill Evans version of some spelling of “Jeannine”! ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2011, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-bill-evans-youtube-clip/553745/13 "2011-04-07T21:42:28Z")
Eureka! You Netflix subscribers with the “watch instantly” feature will be able to experience that Nardis version I mentioned in the OP. See the writeup of the entire concerts (from 1966 and 1980) at [http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Bill\_Evans\_Trio\_The\_Oslo\_Concerts/70060267?trkid=2430625#height1470](http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Bill_Evans_Trio_The_Oslo_Concerts/70060267?trkid=2430625#height1470) In fact, there are two versions on [Bill Evans Trio: The Oslo Concerts](http://movies.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=70060267&trkid=2439572) but the one I recommend starts at 0:50:40. The entire 1:13:03 is a special Bill Evans Trio treat.