Bill Evans, the most influential jazz pianist of the postwar era, would have turned eighty on Sunday. In honor of that anniversary, Marc Myers has just posted the first installment of a five-part interview with Laurie Verchomin, who was Evans’ lover during the last year and a half of his life. You can read it by going to JazzWax, Marc’s blog. It promises to be essential reading.
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The Bill Evans Trio plays “Midnight Mood” live in 1979:
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