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"Peace Piece" is a jazz piece recorded by Bill Evans in December 1958 for his album Everybody Digs Bill Evans.It is a pastoral improvisation done at the end of the recording session and is one of his simplest, built on a gentle Cmaj7 to G9sus4 two-chord progression that Evans had used earlier during the session for his version of "Some Other Time" from Leonard Bernstein's musical On the Town.
Around that time he also composed a piece called "Peace Piece". [6] Years later, when asked to play it, he said it was a spontaneous improvisation and didn't know it. He was a founding member of SLU's Delta Omega chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, played quarterback for the fraternity's football team, and played in the college band.
The Bill Evans Album: Based on a tone row: T.T.T.T. (Twelve Tone Tune Two) 1973: The Tokyo Concert: Based on a tone row: The Two Lonely People: 1971: The Bill Evans Album: Lyrics by Carol Hall for the performance of the song by Tony Bennett: Very Early: 1949 (appr.) 1962: Moon Beams: Evans's first-known tune composed when he was an ...
The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961, a three-CD box set released in 2005, marks the first time the entire Bill Evans Trio's complete sets at the Village Vanguard on June 25, 1961, have been released in their entirety (outside of the 12-disc set containing Evans' complete Riverside recordings).
On Green Dolphin Street is an album by jazz pianist Bill Evans, recorded with bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Philly Joe Jones in early 1959, shortly before the Kind of Blue sessions in which both Evans and Chambers participated, but not released until 1975 as part of the double LP Peace Piece and Other Pieces.
The Complete Bill Evans on Verve: 18-CD set Verve: 1998 Ultimate Bill Evans: Selected by Herbie Hancock, recorded 1956–71 Verve: 1998 Piano Player: From various sessions with various musicians, recorded 1957–71 Includes 6 duos with Eddie Gomez (b) Columbia: 2001 Bill Evans' Finest Hour: Verve: 2004 Bill Evans for Lovers: Various sessions ...
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Evans recorded it again in 1964, this time in a quartet with Stan Getz, but once again, release of the recording was delayed, in this case to 1973. [ 5 ] So the first recording of the piece that was released was on his 1971 Grammy Award winning The Bill Evans Album , the first album by the pianist featuring exclusively his own originals.