Throughout a long association with Peace News I’ve known that PN readers are not necessarily pacifists – though I’d hazard most are. Trust me – I’m a pacifist… you won’t regret it. There’s an excellent music programme on Radio 4 called Soul Music, which examines the influence of particular songs or musical pieces and ‘Peace piece’ would suit that format very well. It needs accuracy and attention to detail but also a willingness on the part of the performer to stand back and let the music just “be”, to exist in the moment of creation – as Evans insisted it should in that 1958 recording. Pages: 6. Dear readers, if you want a rest from Trumpery, strong leadership and general election gloom and doom, just tune in to this. The curve of complexity turns full circle when the theme returns in its original form at the end. To me Bill was the Chopin of jazz. If you find joy and value in what I do, please consider making a donation to support the continuance of the site, Romanticism Reincarnated: Bill Evans’ ‘Peace Piece’, Finding the “essence of Bach”: How a lifelong love of Bach led this pianist to transcribe the complete solo cello suites, When music may not be your ‘first’ profession. Evans refused to play ‘Peace Piece’ live, insisting it was the result of a unique moment in the recording studio, a moment which could not be recreated in concert (though he did eventually perform it just once, two years before he died). This is the free "Peace Piece" sheet music first page. A1-A2: New York, March 13, 1961.
Back in May, the anti-Corbyn press had a field day over Labour’s divisions about retaining Trident nuclear missiles. Evans’ greatest interpreter, the critic Gene Lees, once described the experience of hearing his first Evans album: “Until then, I had assumed, albeit unconsciously, that I alone had the feelings therein expressed.” William John Evans (August 16, 1929 – September 15, 1980) was an American jazz pianist and composer who mostly played in trios. Genre: Popular/Hits. Bill Evans, who died when he was only 51 in 1980, was the pianist-composer on Miles Davis’ famous Kinda Blue album.
Evans, a jazz pianist by profession, was classically-trained at Southeastern University and Mannes School of Music, and his fondness for and mastery of classical repertoire (including by Bach, Chopin, Scriabin, Rachmaninov, Ravel and Debussy) gave him extraordinary expressive freedom and inspired some of his greatest jazz innovations. Basic Income – left-wing utopia or right-wing trap? Add to Cart.
SKU: MN0100456 Pacifism is not a popular cause. Welcome to Peace News, the newspaper for the UK grassroots peace and justice movement. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the CD release of Peace Piece on Discogs. It strikes me that if you chanced upon ‘Peace piece’ without knowing anything of Bill Evans and his pivotal place in jazz history, you’d find it hard to confine this music to an appropriate genre. Everything I’ve learned, I’ve learned with feeling being the generating force. While Chopin’s Berceuse, with its sense of freely evolving improvisation and fresh decorative ideas, is the most obvious model for ‘Peace Piece’, the work is also redolent of Satie’s Trois Gymnopédies (that repeating bass figure again) and the slow movement of Ravel’s G major Piano Concerto. By The Cross-Eyed Pianist $4.99. Explorations (Riverside, 1961) Explorations established the Bill Evans cult. I’ve known gay men and women personally and also read their thoughts variously and they commonly assert that they knew as children that they were gay.In my own life, there’s a parallel. When I lived in the London borough of Islington, JC was my MP, and although I knew of him as a consistent and committed campaigner for British unilateral nuclear disarmament, I never thought of him as a pacifist. Playing it can feel like a meditation, where time stands still – something an audience will sense too when the music is played well. Score: Piano Accompaniment. Evans borrowed the ostinato bass figure and improvised an increasingly decorative treble line over the top of two chords which remain the same throughout, just as in Chopin’s Berceuse. His Wikipedia entry states, however, that he was ‘traumatised by his army service and suffered nightmares for years’. Add to Cart. In 1958 – only a few months before that record – Evans wrote one of his most celebrated and influential piano solos titled ‘Peace piece’. Bill Evans’ ‘Peace Piece’ came out of Leonard Bernstein’s ‘Some Other Time’ (from On The Town). Disclaimer: the opinions expressed in articles by named contributors do not necessarily represent those of Peace News. A favourite composer of mine is the pianist Erik Satie and to my ears his serene and beautiful ‘Trois gymnopédies’ were an influence on Evans.The mood though is the key and it matters not whether ‘Peace piece’ is about the absence of war or about personal calmness and serenity. Famine threat to millions as Saudi attack on Yemeni port looms, Muslim activist faces prison for keeping silent, After a £10,000 fine, climate activists pledge to fight on. We seek to oppose all forms of violence, and to create positive change based on cooperation and responsibility.
Instrumental Solo in C Major. Since my early teens I’ve been a jazz fan: from Louis Armstrong to Miles Davis, Bessie Smith to Billie Holiday, Jelly Roll Morton to Bill Evans.
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