{"id":6951,"date":"2015-09-15T23:31:02","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T06:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=6951"},"modified":"2015-09-15T23:35:36","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T06:35:36","slug":"bill-evans-1929-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2015\/09\/bill-evans-1929-1980\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Evans, 1929-1980"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;BK82T1xZAYVBwQ3MRZnmchvTWRE87yHB&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Bill-Evans-sepia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Bill-Evans-sepia.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Evans sepia\" width=\"220\" height=\"193\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6952\" \/><\/a>Bill Evans died 35 years ago today at the age of 51. Long before everybody dug him, his producer, Orrin Keepnews, titled a 1958 album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Everybody-Digs-Bill-Evans\/dp\/B000000Y47\/?_encoding=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20\"target=\"_blank\">Everybody Digs Bill Evans<\/a><\/em>. The cover had autographed endorsements from Miles Davis, George Shearing, Ahmad Jamal and Cannonball Adderley. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bill Evans has rare originality and taste,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Adderley wrote, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153and the even rarer ability to make his conception of a number seem the definitive way to play it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Adderley was perceptive and the album title was prophetic. Soon, Evans moved from acclaim by the jazz inner circle to the admiration of musicians everywhere and an audience that expanded throughout his regrettably short life. He had a profound effect on the development of the music. From <em>Everybody Digs Bill Evans<\/em>, we remember him with \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Peace Piece.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d       <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nv2GgV34qIg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;BK82T1xZAYVBwQ3MRZnmchvTWRE87yHB&#8221;] Bill Evans died 35 years ago today at the age of 51. Long before everybody dug him, his producer, Orrin Keepnews, titled a 1958 album Everybody Digs Bill Evans. The cover had autographed endorsements from Miles Davis, George Shearing, Ahmad Jamal and Cannonball Adderley. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bill Evans has rare originality and taste,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Adderley wrote, [&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-6951","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\/6951","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=6951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}