I really liked the Bill Evans piano playing on “Kind of Blue.” So I asked for another album. She gave me [Evans’] “Portrait of Jazz” and I just fell in love with what Bill was doing.

This went up in August... Here's Bill Evans playing solo piano at New York's Carnegie Hall, with Marian McPartland announcing, on June 30, 1974. He plays Since We Met, Two Lonely People and Turn Out ...

Bill loved playing this piano, and the recordings released later of ... Given how much he loved the piano, Evans was clearly enjoying himself working through the standard on an instrument that was ...

Bill Evans, one of the most influential and tragic figures of the post-bop jazz piano, was known for his highly nuanced touch, the clarity of the feeling content of his music and his reform of the ...

After jazz journalist Gene Lees heard Bill Evans for the first time ... For a few months he stopped playing the piano and withdrew from the jazz scene, also sinking deeper into a drug habit ...