{"id":6391,"date":"2015-02-07T11:42:22","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T19:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=6391"},"modified":"2015-02-07T15:14:29","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T23:14:29","slug":"weekend-extra-evans-reflects-on-ellington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2015\/02\/weekend-extra-evans-reflects-on-ellington\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Extra: Evans Reflects On Ellington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the aftermath of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-bill-evans-legacy-1423008187\"target=\"_blank\">Bill Evans piece<\/a> in <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em> this week and the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Ellington-facing-left.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Ellington-facing-left.jpg\" alt=\"Ellington facing left\" width=\"190\" height=\"190\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Ellington-facing-left.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Ellington-facing-left-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Ellington-facing-left-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Evans-head-facing-right.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Evans-head-facing-right.jpg\" alt=\"NYC; 1968\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Evans-head-facing-right.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Evans-head-facing-right-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Evans-head-facing-right-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>many generous comments about it here and in the online edition of the paper, I thought you might enjoy a rare Evans performance. It is the exquisite concert version of a piece that he recorded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/New-Conversations-Monologue-Dialogue-Trialogue\/dp\/B000002KIJ\/?_encoding=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20\"target=\"_blank\">for this album<\/a> in 1978 and played again in his memorable appearance on Marian McPartland\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <em>Piano Jazz<\/em> program. This was at Carnegie Hall on June 28, 1978. Bill makes the introduction. <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hDw2ClkdeR4?feature=player_detailpage\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the aftermath of my Bill Evans piece in The Wall Street Journal this week and the many generous comments about it here and in the online edition of the paper, I thought you might enjoy a rare Evans performance. It is the exquisite concert version of a piece that he recorded for this album [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}