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“I don’t know how impressive that sounds to anyone else ” Keepnews wrote in the Loose Blues liner notes, “to me, who was on hand for all of it, it is still overwhelming.”īorn in New Jersey and educated in music at Southeastern Louisiana University, Bill Evans moved to New York City in 1955 at age 25, where he learned modal music from theorist George Russell. “The burst really began,” remembered producer Orrin Keepnews, “when Evans surprised me by announcing that he was ready to record with his new trio eventually it meant that he was in three different studios on a total of eight separate occasions between April and August 1962, creating four and a half albums’ worth of solo, trio, and quintet selections.” Recorded in two days in August 1962, Loose Blues was the product of extraordinary recording activity for a normally reticent artist, one who took almost two years to record a second solo album. It was conceived by a man in the middle of an intensely creative period, only to be released after his death recorded by a group of ad hoc players not fully prepared for its compositional intricacies and produced by a man who didn’t fully believe in the project. It was created during a time of grief and addiction, formed from necessity and ambition, and frustrated by financial limitations. Thought lost, Loose Blues remained in vaults for 20 years. That is partly because “Loose Bloose,” and the album with which it nearly shares a name, was shelved. It is a part of Evans’s legacy that is without either parent or descendant. It moves with the strange grace of a mantis.

Played in unison and in octave harmonies on piano and tenor saxophone, it is somehow both intimate and imperious. The head riff on “Loose Bloose” is too complex to not have been notated. They’re typically repetitive and simple enough for musicians to remember - an arrangement kept in one’s head, not written down. Such motifs are played at the beginning, or “head,” of a jazz or rock song. “Loose Bloose” has a beguiling head riff. Read Moreģ0 of 52 people found this review helpful.Tom Maxwell | Longreads | October 2018 | 11 minutes (2,248 words) If you are a classically trained pianist you will really find great pleasure in learning the pieces and hearing the gorgeous SOUND you are creating! It's one thing to listen to him on cd, but another to actually see on paper how he breaks down a simple melody into the most amazing music. If you are a jazz pianist you will appreciate this and use this as a reference. Bill Evans is a master and this book is for anyone. It is beautiful music that is really simple once you break it down but he puts it together so elegantly. Yes the syncopation can be tricky, but you'll see that in each piece he uses pretty much the same exact chords throughout so you just have to get the rhythm. If you have a good bill evans collection and your piano is in tune, you can play along w/ the cd once you work up the. The transcriptions are ENTIRELY accurate. I am a classically trained pianist and took jazz lessons in college but never got the "sound" I wanted.

#ALONE TOGETHER ALBUM BILL EVANS TRANSCRIPTIONS PLUS#

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