Beautiful Love (Bill Evans)

A nice transcription of Bill’s performance of Beautiful Love (take 2) as it appears on the album Explorations. This is one of Bill’s early albums featuring the great bassist Scott LaFaro.

• Beautiful Love (take 2) (PDF document)

5 Bills Evans transcriptions

I’ve already posted about the issues of ‘Letter from Evans‘ that are available on scribd. Fascinating reading for the Bill Evans fan.

I’ve snabbed the PDF’s and extracted the following transcriptions from various issues:

• ‘Midnight Mood’ from the ‘Alone’ album
• ‘I Loves You Porgy‘ from recording ‘At the Montreux Jazz Festival’
• ‘Someday My Prince Will Come‘ also from ‘At the Montreux Jazz Festival’
• ‘Quiet Now‘ from recording ‘Live in Paris vol 2′
• ‘The Opener‘ from recording ‘I Will Say Goodbye’

For Bills Evans fans, don’t miss this

Lets face it, alot of the stuff on Scribd must violate copyright (surely?), including this fantastic batch of Bills Evan’s materials, links of which are supplied below for your perusal and pleasure. Remember to login/create an account so you can download the PDF’s.

• Bill Evans Signature Licks
• Bill Evans ‘The 70’s’
• The Bill Evans fakebook
• The Artistry of Bill Evans (excellent, I’ve owned this for years)
• The Harmony of Bill Evans (referred to in an earlier post, but here again)

Super. Smashing. Great.

Harmony of Bill Evans ebook

On Scribd.com, recently found the Jack Reilly book, The Harmony of Bill Evans, so the link is posted here. Essential reading for any jazz pianist I would have thought…

http://www.scribd.com/doc/6378042/The-Harmony-of-Bill-Evans-Piano-Score-Jack-Reilly

Bills Evans piano solo’s ebook

Esnips has some great stuff on, and I’ve just found this 23 page e-book of Bill Evans solos - includes Waltz for Debby, Time Remembered, My Bells, Interplay, Fudgsicle Built for Four and Very Early. Not sure whether these are transcribed solo’s off actual recordings, but for pianists these will be great if you looking to play these tunes as Bill played them.

Bob Keller’s video collection…

…Is a wonderful collection of video’s of great jazz musicians doing their thang. Bob must have collected these over years and he’s presenting them on his site in all their WMV goodness. Bills Evans fans (like me) are particularly well catered for, although Coltrane and Getz are there too. What you waitin’ for: get tuned in.