BILL EVANS: HOW MY HEART SINGS PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Peter Pettinger | 366 pages | 15 Aug 2002 | Yale University Press | 9780300097276 | English | New Haven, United States Bill Evans Trio* - How My Heart Sings | Releases | Discogs Learn how to enable JavaScript on your browser. Add to Wishlist. Sign in to Purchase Instantly. Members save with free shipping everyday! See details. Here, the eight selections have a much more mid- and even up-tempo flair. Israel appears more comfortable in these settings to be sure, as he is the kind of bassist that relegates himself deeply into the rhythm section, sublimating himself to the pianist. In Evans' own words, the band's desire was to "provide a more singing sound" in this material. The set begins with a lyrical waltz in the title track. There are a number of standards here, including "Summertime," which sounds so different with its mid-tempo opening and Israel's flaunting bass vamp in front of the piano. When Evans gets to the melody he is following the swinging skip of Motian's drums, and he digs deep into inverting the melody line with a slew of arpeggios and short, choppy phrases. On Cole Porter 's "Everything I Love," Evans takes the snap in the tune and breaks it, committing it to a driving swing and vaunting lyrical gem that has three seemingly unresolvable harmonic problems in the center that turn out to be a Moebius strip in Evan's chromatic language. Very little surface noise. Good feeling vinyl with thick outer edge. Comes in a mofi-style poly inner sleeve. Reply Notify me 1 Helpful. Add all to Wantlist Remove all from Wantlist. Have: Want: Avg Rating: 4. Spinning-CD by basementrug. Fantasy 45 Series by Analogue Production by Ventrino. LP by Marten How My Heart Sings. I Should Care. For additional information, see the Global Shipping Program terms and conditions - opens in a new window or tab. Delivery times may vary, especially during peak periods. 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On Cole Porter 's "Everything I Love," Evans takes the snap in the tune and breaks it, committing it to a driving swing and vaunting lyrical gem that has three seemingly unresolvable harmonic problems in the center that turn out to be a Moebius strip in Evan's chromatic language. This is a tough recording; it flies in the face of the conventions Evans himself has set, and yet retrains the deep, nearly profound lyricism that was the pianist's trademark. Product Details Tracks Album Credits. Show More. Related Searches. Ben Hur [Hallmark]. View Product. Blue in Green [Milestone]. Pianist Evans, bassist Pianist Evans, bassist Eddie Gomez and drummer Marty Morell had been playing regularly together since Gomez had joined the group back in The set begins with a lyrical waltz in the title track. There are a number of standards here, including "Summertime," which sounds so different with its mid-tempo opening and Israel's flaunting bass vamp in front of the piano. When Evans gets to the melody he is following the swinging skip of Motian 's drums, and he digs deep into inverting the melody line with a slew of arpeggios and short, choppy phrases. On Cole Porter 's "Everything I Love," Evans takes the snap in the tune and breaks it, committing it to a driving swing and vaunting lyrical gem that has three seemingly unresolvable harmonic problems in the center that turn out to be a Moebius strip in Evan 's chromatic language. This is a tough recording; it flies in the face of the conventions Evans himself has set, and yet retrains the deep, nearly profound lyricism that was the pianist's trademark. AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully. Blues Classical Country. Electronic Folk International. Jazz Latin New Age. Aggressive Bittersweet Druggy. Energetic Happy Hypnotic. Romantic Sad Sentimental. Such was the case with Bill Evans. His shining tone and cloudy pastel harmonies transformed such innocuous pop songs as ''Young and Foolish'' and ''The Boy Next Door'' into fleeting visions of infinite grace. Yet the bespectacled, cadaverous ruin who sat hunched over the keyboard like a broken gooseneck lamp seemed at first glance incapable of such Debussyan subtlety; something, one felt sure, must have gone terribly wrong for a man who played like that to have looked like that. Appearances are seldom deceiving to the clear-eyed observer, and Peter Pettinger writes frankly in his fine new biography of what was no secret to Evans's appalled colleagues: The most influential jazz pianist of the past half-century was addicted to drugs -- first heroin, then cocaine -- for much of his adult life. He picked up the habit in as a member of Miles Davis's sextet, and despite occasional interludes of sobriety, it stayed with him, finally leading to his death in Pettinger, who died last month, was an English concert pianist who began listening to Evans as a teen-ager. He is as interested in his playing as his private life; his book is packed with so much shrewd critical commentary that it reads at times more like an annotated discography than a biography. But ''Bill Evans: How My Heart Sings'' is also the first full-length biography of Evans, and most readers will doubtless pay special attention to the grisly particulars of what the writer Gene Lees, who knew him well, tersely called ''the longest suicide in history. The second son of a hard-drinking New Jersey printer, Evans had a conventional and uneventful youth. One of his sidemen would later speculate that ''his involvement with drugs early on, anyway was to get away from the fact that he really was a very American kind of guy. How My Heart Sings! - Bill Evans, Bill Evans Trio | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic Jan 19, Donald rated it really liked it Shelves: biography. A tribute to this bountiful jazz pianist. This man lived a tortured life that somehow produced a keyboardist's manuscript and genre. His arrangements and compositions will live as long as one listens to jazz. Friends of mine ask why I like his stuff I am not a keyboardist. It's simply that Evans's virtuosity is emotionally descriptive. Jazz is an individualistic and existential experience; It only happens once. Evans spent himself on his own excellence. This is a fine account and a very good A tribute to this bountiful jazz pianist. This is a fine account and a very good look at a great jazz man, although it spares us of the torture he must have actually inflicted on himself. Nov 12, Philly Aesthete Brown rated it it was ok Shelves: music , books-i-reviewed , biography. Evans is one of the most lyrical and sensitive piano players in any genre of music. Wonderful composer, too, but this bio is clunky and rather flat. It's a sad, sorta paint by numbers affair here with respect to storytelling. Sep 23, Stefan Kanev rated it really liked it. I didn't expect that reading a biography of one of my favorite musicians would be so enjoyable. It transformed my experience of listening to his albums. There are a few bits of notated music in the book used to illustrate a point, but they were a bit above my skillset to grok. Mar 13, Bob rated it really liked it. A very good review of this brilliant musician's triumphs and tragedies. Bill Evan's contributions to modern music were profound and intellectual, yet accessible and deeply emotional. I still mourn his passing - after all these years. Mar 22, Addison rated it really liked it. This is the only complete biography of the jazz pianist Bill Evans. It lacks in personality, which is made up for with stories about Bill Evans, who was quite the character himself. I suppose that is the downside to non-fiction. A must-read for ardent fans of Bill Evans. Bill Evans is one of my all-time favorite piano player so I was predisposed to like this book. Pettinger lays out such a great examination of Evans life in four sections. Going through all of evans's highs and lows Mar 18, Al rated it liked it. I guess I wanted more than just the dates and personnel on recording sessions. Mar 28, Sam Chandler rated it it was amazing. Summary: Born in in Plainfield, New Jersey, Bill Evans grew up in a musical household, with his father Harry singing regularly in a barbershop quartet and his mother being a singer and classical pianist. He branched off and studied not only piano, but violin and flute. However, it was clear from a young age that Evans preferred the piano, having sightread and studied a number of works by the classical masters by the age of Evans garnered a taste for improvisation--a key element of jazz m Summary: Born in in Plainfield, New Jersey, Bill Evans grew up in a musical household, with his father Harry singing regularly in a barbershop quartet and his mother being a singer and classical pianist.