Is there anyone who has the pure musicianship other than Bill Evans? This guy played from heart, with suburb technique and a pure musical quality that haunts. A true, modern day, musical genius. RIP Bill, we miss you.
Fantastic solo piano. I've heard this one also performed with either a trio or quintet. Both renditions are excellent. This one was on a double album I once owned (milestone records). Great post.
@MrRickywallace no its not anything like that :P it reminds me of erik satie because to me its him exploring minimalism, beauty in simplicity and the sounds in your head, not the memorized lines on your fingers. which to me are all elements of erik saties music, most notably his gymnopedies
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Billfreaks, you are invited to a beautiful Bill Evans master class on YT! The class includes an in-depth analysis of Bill's classic solo performance "A Time for Love". You will LOVE this, promise:) Type in "Dave Frank" Bill Evans on YT.
"Peace Piece" is an absolute favorite! One that transcends time and space. Classic at best! I can easily listen to this one for hours. Easily. What a musical legend.
I love this song, sometimes when I get bored I'll just play this for hours and my family will be like "Don't you know how to play anything else?" Then I'll smile... and keep on playing. ;D
so much emotion. Bill Evans was the highly intelligent yet introverted tragic romantic. but a progressive romantic, at that. This is my favorite piece by him. the notes are like droplets of water on a calm lake. everything that needs to exists does yet nothing more. God is in the work. it is deeply transcendent and powerful. that last chord is amazing.
@Cashflowben983 I don't know the notes/chords...I played it by ear---try to sound it out, shouldn't take long. Check this video out "Corrina, Corrina (8) " go to the -5:28- mark and good luck!
Just to show my level of musical geekiness... The chord near the end (6.15) was sampled by Forss on the track Funk For Nerds off the album Soulhack. Ahh. Had to say it.
bobke114: So very sorry for your loss. I know exactly how that feels. It almost hurts more than losing a human friend or relative. "Peace Piece" is my all-time favorite in all the music I like.
Awhile back I had to say goodbye to a longtime family pet. The following morning it was snowing and I was feeling really down. I took a walk with my I-Pod and this song came on. It really helped me put things in place and assured me that Bevo was in "Peace" God bless Bill Evans and Bevo
Miles Davis liked the introduction to this cover of Leonard Bernstein's "Some Other Time" so much that he asked Bill Evans if they could work it into the album that they were recording together. That album was Kind of Blue. So yes, everyone is correct.
ahhhh..... for those who look for perfection in music..... behold! Peace Piece! close your eyes and shut down all your senses except for the ear and the heart - surely, you will have found peace in this piece!
l'energia di questi ragazzi non si dissolverà, Bill ne definisce un'idea di suono che espande senza fine nel tempo e oltre... il jazz è anche Consolazione.
@Chdrapkin1 Yes, I see the gymnopedies in this piece a lot (even though it's not in 3/4. But the tranquility and similar texture is there. I just wish all the people I know, and eventually the world were like this piece describes so well... peaceful.
Is this "some other time" with Tony Bennett or is it simply a beautiful filling in between the spaces with remarkable sad beauty of happiness I have for Bill Evans and Tony Bennett together, or could it be the piano temporarily replacing through "peace piece" the smooth voice of Tony Bennett. I know it relates to our Veterans coming home from Viet Nam, perhaps? What beauty, preciseness, exactitude, and COMPASSION to Kevin at times, never selfish. The chords wake me up with chilling war...
One person slipped on a banana peal, landed with its face on the keyboard of the computer, rolled his head to the left and accidentally hit the don´t like button -
@ivensmith its kind of odd haveing a picture from woodstock with bill evans music because he hated rock music but i dont i went to woodstock bill evans was the opening act at the newport jazz festival the next month but it was on a thursday night so most missed it they had some of the same rock groups as woodstock ten years after johnny winter bs&t ...
Came back home late, dead tired after a crazy fucking day. Put this song and album on and closed my eyes. Next thing i knew the morning birds were chirping. Got myself ready for another day in the life :) :)
If you listen to this song its obvious that flamenco sketches is from bill evans. and so is blue in green. what makes blue in green special ist bill evans piano style.
At least half of kind of Blue should be credited to evans.
@rumpranger65 Miles Davis,while jerk, was a total genius. Maybe you could put it like that.
But Davis went through hard stuff, police officers hit him while he just stood on the sidewalk. I mean if you go through stuff like that it changes you and I think that´s the way its supposed to be.
@MrBob10 As If what makes blues in green special is EVERYTHING!!! the horns, the piano, the rhythm section, the melody/lack of, the chords.
and Flamenko Sketches is this song yes... with extra chords that add movement throughout the whole thing so i'd say davis and evans deserve equally to share the credit for it.
but ultimately any musician who was lucky enough to share an album with miles davis was rewarded with a place in history which is worth more then any writing credit
I had a music teacher that told me, its better to play a simple song beautifully than to play a difficult song without heart. Evans really proves that right here. Artists who are only known for their technical playing ability will always be outdone somewhere down the road, but music like this, will live on forever.
I have always loved this! I did a cover of it on guitar at a gig a couple of months ago. The place was really ambient, and it came out pretty nice. There is a vid of it on my page.
I'm not even going to try to see a connection between the music and the accompanying photo; I always listen to this piece with my eyes closed anyway. Hearing this for the first time years ago was one of the really sublime musical moments in my life... transcendental is a word that comes to mind.... thank you for posting this
I love the left hand part of this song. It never fails to lure me in to a trance. I can easily play it for an hour and not get bored. With or without right hand improv!
That's what I read in a biography titled "How My Heart Sings". It is possible I am not remembering the words exactly.... it may have said he did not like R&R instead of "he hated".
I was totally wrong in my post saying Bill Evans hated R&R music. Excuse my brain snafu. So I need to apologize to everyone and I thank loren1283 for pointing this out. Bill Evans was a great, great artist,and a very open-minded one. The last thing I want to do is misstate the man. Sorry everyone!
I was watching Corina Corina and heard this song and immediately looked it up on You Tube. I love the approach he uses and the sincerity of each note. This is excellent.
With solo piano an artist is totally exposed....No tricks or short cuts. What you've got, or haven't got, is heard by all. Bill Evans has a lot....an awful lot.
I agree with you. Bill Evans hated rock & roll which is what Woodstock was centered around. Very good Woodstock picture though. And to Bill.... how I wish you were still with us!!!
"flamenco sketches" from Miles Davis (on the famous album "Kind of blue") is composed exactly on the same chords.. In fact,"Flamenco sketches" was recorded after "peace piece", so it's wrong that Miles is the composer of "flamenco".
In fact, these 2 chords were the intro to Evans cover of Bernstein's "Some other time"... Then Evans improvised a complete tune around these chords. On "Flamenco sketches", it's the same "2 chords" but in different keys. On "Kind of blues", Miles is also credited to have composed "Blue in green"... who seams also to be an Evans Tune (the "legend" says that Davis has wrote only 2 first chords and Evans has wrote a 10 bars melody)
Hey,man..peace piece is all in C maj (ionian)..flamenco sketches is structured in 5 steps instead..so that are not the same chords.. that "obligato" both the songs start with, is just an idea that miles used, to compose a great song..
First heard this in "Jack goes Boating" hauntingly beautiful, yet so simple. Really hits home. Could be my theme song...of life.
GreenEyedGurrrl 4 days ago
This piece makes me want to feel innocent in this world again. So that I can experience everything like it was new.
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This ostinato is taken from his and Miles' composition "Flamenco Sketches"...Great!!!:-) That's very peaceful!!!
PortgasD88rach 1 month ago
@PortgasD88rach actually, it's the other way around. This was recorded 3 months before "Flamenco Sketches"
ssg263 1 week ago
@ssg263 Wow!!! This makes the piece more suggestive!^_^ Thank You for the information;-)
PortgasD88rach 1 week ago
better than meditation. this should be the opening "piece" before every meeting in NEW YORK.
of the U.N. calm the bastards down!
randy8614 1 month ago
Is there anyone who has the pure musicianship other than Bill Evans? This guy played from heart, with suburb technique and a pure musical quality that haunts. A true, modern day, musical genius. RIP Bill, we miss you.
ensemble10 3 months ago
beautiful piece. Thank you "Jack Goes Boating" the movie for recall
Leonisz 3 months ago
Fantastic solo piano. I've heard this one also performed with either a trio or quintet. Both renditions are excellent. This one was on a double album I once owned (milestone records). Great post.
doc2skate 3 months ago
Gorgeous
MultiFinlayson 3 months ago
reminds me of erik satie
papersky1 4 months ago 6
@papersky1 Maybe a Chopin Beceuse?
MrRickywallace 2 months ago
@MrRickywallace "Berceuse" maybe that's the correct spelling.
MrRickywallace 2 months ago
@MrRickywallace no its not anything like that :P it reminds me of erik satie because to me its him exploring minimalism, beauty in simplicity and the sounds in your head, not the memorized lines on your fingers. which to me are all elements of erik saties music, most notably his gymnopedies
papersky1 1 month ago
@papersky1 totally agree on the rerik satie
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TruthContest 5 months ago
haunting piece........... pun intended..... by a genius musician who is so sorely missed!
aoz823 6 months ago
@aoz823 inspired by haunting peace right? .......o ye, u see that? ooooohhhh right
papersky1 1 month ago
Thank you Dr. Evans.
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Billfreaks, you are invited to a beautiful Bill Evans master class on YT! The class includes an in-depth analysis of Bill's classic solo performance "A Time for Love". You will LOVE this, promise:) Type in "Dave Frank" Bill Evans on YT.
Dfrankjazz 6 months ago
"Peace Piece" is an absolute favorite! One that transcends time and space. Classic at best! I can easily listen to this one for hours. Easily. What a musical legend.
GracefulJoy 6 months ago 3
Satie
Bagas 7 months ago 2
I love this song, sometimes when I get bored I'll just play this for hours and my family will be like "Don't you know how to play anything else?" Then I'll smile... and keep on playing. ;D
lilmissmusic2012 7 months ago 4
This piece has been missing before. Sometimes I feel like bill evans and dollar brand. Now there I am.
zzausel 7 months ago
The movie Corrina, Corrina bought me here. I have no words for how beautiful this is
anye76 7 months ago 5
i think the comment posted above goes for the other three that it dislike...
Bill Evans is... well... simply amazing...
dmoac 8 months ago
I have the sheet music if anyone wants it. just msg me
stewpidvideos 8 months ago
@stewpidvideos
you mean the transcription of the solo, or the Cmaj7 - C9sus4 sequence? :P If it's the transcription, I want it :D
FliegendeHollaender 7 months ago
so much emotion. Bill Evans was the highly intelligent yet introverted tragic romantic. but a progressive romantic, at that. This is my favorite piece by him. the notes are like droplets of water on a calm lake. everything that needs to exists does yet nothing more. God is in the work. it is deeply transcendent and powerful. that last chord is amazing.
stevenas135 9 months ago 4
So thoughtful...so fresh. The world with peace.
KSUedu09 9 months ago 2
is this another rendition of "some other time" ?
kharnvelzyghur 10 months ago
4:05 Just came
Rsphazonking 10 months ago
bill fucking evans. YES. this guy got it. a real winner. he got there and back many times. ya gotta dig it
chuk513abide 10 months ago 2
Funny story...I learned to play this song on the piano by watching Corrina, Corrina. Beautiful song.
timetocomeup 10 months ago
@timetocomeup, how do you play the left hand?
Cashflowben983 9 months ago
@Cashflowben983 I don't know the notes/chords...I played it by ear---try to sound it out, shouldn't take long. Check this video out "Corrina, Corrina (8) " go to the -5:28- mark and good luck!
timetocomeup 9 months ago
@Cashflowben983
The left hand is C(2 ocataves below middle C), then BmiddleCE, then GAmiddleCF, then down to G then back down to C.
tgptmm 8 months ago
cool . . .
JezzKool 10 months ago
To hear it is to sense it, to feel it, to know it. We will always remember you Bill. Peace...
bobfic 10 months ago
Thanks Deepintheforestcat.
bobke114 11 months ago
Just to show my level of musical geekiness... The chord near the end (6.15) was sampled by Forss on the track Funk For Nerds off the album Soulhack. Ahh. Had to say it.
skurfadude 11 months ago 2
bobke114: So very sorry for your loss. I know exactly how that feels. It almost hurts more than losing a human friend or relative. "Peace Piece" is my all-time favorite in all the music I like.
deepintheforestcat 11 months ago
@deepintheforestcat you must not value your 'human' friends very much
fop221 10 months ago
pon most high . . . so chill and heartfelt
unseenrecordings 11 months ago
Awhile back I had to say goodbye to a longtime family pet. The following morning it was snowing and I was feeling really down. I took a walk with my I-Pod and this song came on. It really helped me put things in place and assured me that Bevo was in "Peace" God bless Bill Evans and Bevo
bobke114 11 months ago 3
Miles Davis liked the introduction to this cover of Leonard Bernstein's "Some Other Time" so much that he asked Bill Evans if they could work it into the album that they were recording together. That album was Kind of Blue. So yes, everyone is correct.
mattheweilar 1 year ago
Divine. It is very reminiscent of Flamenco Sketches from Kind of Blue, am I missing something?
Wilfslad 1 year ago
ahhhh..... for those who look for perfection in music..... behold! Peace Piece! close your eyes and shut down all your senses except for the ear and the heart - surely, you will have found peace in this piece!
Cc00kies 1 year ago
wha~ it sounds like the intro from "some other time"
ehanbameh1 1 year ago
I love it
drefofi 1 year ago
Beautiful... waqs used over the end credits for the movie "Jack Goes Boating" with Philip Seymour Hoffman
ucsb1969 1 year ago 3
Incredible.
jamesrledwith 1 year ago
l'energia di questi ragazzi non si dissolverà, Bill ne definisce un'idea di suono che espande senza fine nel tempo e oltre... il jazz è anche Consolazione.
carbone1957 1 year ago
Reminds me so much of Eric Satie's compositions and ideas.
This is certainly a "peace" piece. Meditation anyone?
Chdrapkin1 1 year ago
@Chdrapkin1 Yes, I see the gymnopedies in this piece a lot (even though it's not in 3/4. But the tranquility and similar texture is there. I just wish all the people I know, and eventually the world were like this piece describes so well... peaceful.
ChopinFanatic19 1 year ago
Is this "some other time" with Tony Bennett or is it simply a beautiful filling in between the spaces with remarkable sad beauty of happiness I have for Bill Evans and Tony Bennett together, or could it be the piano temporarily replacing through "peace piece" the smooth voice of Tony Bennett. I know it relates to our Veterans coming home from Viet Nam, perhaps? What beauty, preciseness, exactitude, and COMPASSION to Kevin at times, never selfish. The chords wake me up with chilling war...
EGomezbest 1 year ago
I am in awe of Bill Evans.
GodStarRevisited69 1 year ago
stunning
ufuckamelon 1 year ago
this is the opening of flamenco sketches..
felicksk8 1 year ago
One person slipped on a banana peal, landed with its face on the keyboard of the computer, rolled his head to the left and accidentally hit the don´t like button -
we forgive you.
ivensmith 1 year ago 89
@ivensmith its kind of odd haveing a picture from woodstock with bill evans music because he hated rock music but i dont i went to woodstock bill evans was the opening act at the newport jazz festival the next month but it was on a thursday night so most missed it they had some of the same rock groups as woodstock ten years after johnny winter bs&t ...
spacepatrolman 1 year ago
Isn't Bill GORGEOUS!!????
TwoMunchuTwo 1 year ago
Assolutamente FANTASTICI e IMMENSI.
themusicman903 1 year ago
beautiful
10Parasol 1 year ago
magic....
carbone1957 1 year ago
Some Other Time. Same chords?
carbone1957 1 year ago
@carbone1957 Yeah it is.
rumpranger65 1 year ago
@carbone1957 - Exactly. This is an improvisation based on the chords of "Some Other Time,' which he recorded at the same session, as I recall.
glene37 1 year ago
this is an amazing piece. Wow!
msteras 1 year ago
Came back home late, dead tired after a crazy fucking day. Put this song and album on and closed my eyes. Next thing i knew the morning birds were chirping. Got myself ready for another day in the life :) :)
dreamatorium 1 year ago 12
@dreamatorium
That was poetry my friend. An amazing rxsmple of how inspiring such music can be.
XPattiasina 2 weeks ago
@dreamatorium what album is this from?
christzak 1 week ago
@dreamatorium
Thats what I do most every day
bobke114 1 week ago
rest in peace Bill...thirty years gone....an awesome genius.
aplfbaum 1 year ago
absolutely blows me away everytime.....ohh bill how you make me cry!xxxxx
NaomiJasmine 1 year ago
far out there, a little frightening... but fantastic!
musiconlyplease98 1 year ago
it...is...so...beautiful ;_;
cr1msonking93 1 year ago
If you listen to this song its obvious that flamenco sketches is from bill evans. and so is blue in green. what makes blue in green special ist bill evans piano style.
At least half of kind of Blue should be credited to evans.
MrBob10 1 year ago 15
@MrBob10 Absolutely true. Miles Davis, while great, was a total jerk.
rumpranger65 1 year ago
@rumpranger65 Miles Davis,while jerk, was a total genius. Maybe you could put it like that.
But Davis went through hard stuff, police officers hit him while he just stood on the sidewalk. I mean if you go through stuff like that it changes you and I think that´s the way its supposed to be.
Miles Davis wasn´t a total jerk, he was a genius.
ivensmith 1 year ago 2
@MrBob10 As If what makes blues in green special is EVERYTHING!!! the horns, the piano, the rhythm section, the melody/lack of, the chords.
and Flamenko Sketches is this song yes... with extra chords that add movement throughout the whole thing so i'd say davis and evans deserve equally to share the credit for it.
but ultimately any musician who was lucky enough to share an album with miles davis was rewarded with a place in history which is worth more then any writing credit
papersky1 1 month ago
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TheGigsixstringAge 1 year ago
o crap so beautiful >_<
sulaimanswaleh 1 year ago 2
I love when jazz got impressionistic. Too bad contemporaries don't write this kind of stuff any more...
turtlepainter2 1 year ago 7
el mejor pianista de jazz!!!
jazzdanijazz 1 year ago
I had a music teacher that told me, its better to play a simple song beautifully than to play a difficult song without heart. Evans really proves that right here. Artists who are only known for their technical playing ability will always be outdone somewhere down the road, but music like this, will live on forever.
dggrunzweig 1 year ago 8
@dggrunzweig true man
racket113 1 year ago
very simple, beautiful.
AnotherRandomFellow 1 year ago
I have always loved this! I did a cover of it on guitar at a gig a couple of months ago. The place was really ambient, and it came out pretty nice. There is a vid of it on my page.
MrGuitardudeism 1 year ago
So brilliant so perfect x
shaneski75 1 year ago 2
kocham
promajles 1 year ago
zakochalam sie w tym kawalku...
promajles 1 year ago
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Zepster77 1 year ago
as much here from Satie or maybe Debussy as there is from American Jazz . . .
littleotis57 1 year ago
subtle sublime heartfelt heartwarming
TheFranjy 1 year ago
I'm not even going to try to see a connection between the music and the accompanying photo; I always listen to this piece with my eyes closed anyway. Hearing this for the first time years ago was one of the really sublime musical moments in my life... transcendental is a word that comes to mind.... thank you for posting this
Blackgeoff1 1 year ago
Master-piece... paece!
85Cofrade 2 years ago
Bellisima
LeFiDes 2 years ago
Esta canción es excactamente lo que recuerdo del Tano
LeFiDes 2 years ago
great music!
BergamoStreetArmy 2 years ago
I love the left hand part of this song. It never fails to lure me in to a trance. I can easily play it for an hour and not get bored. With or without right hand improv!
Vayshen 2 years ago
Pure, Blisss!!!!!!
nwacomptonboy 2 years ago
this is soo good!!!
RnBLOVER82 2 years ago
Ive never seen any quote if bill evans saying he hated rock music! It should be obvious it wasnt his music, but give me a break.
loren1283 2 years ago 4
That's what I read in a biography titled "How My Heart Sings". It is possible I am not remembering the words exactly.... it may have said he did not like R&R instead of "he hated".
MrWolfmantim 2 years ago
I was totally wrong in my post saying Bill Evans hated R&R music. Excuse my brain snafu. So I need to apologize to everyone and I thank loren1283 for pointing this out. Bill Evans was a great, great artist,and a very open-minded one. The last thing I want to do is misstate the man. Sorry everyone!
MrWolfmantim 2 years ago
@MrWolfmantim Chet baker said in a interview which you can find in youtube
the interviewer asked, WHAT DO YOU LISTEN WHEN YOU'RE NOT PLAYING YOURSELF?
he gave a pretty much straightforeward answer and said.. he didnt like pop,country,rock, Lol pretty much he was a jazz man.
why do i mention this? i don't know.
viva jazz.
lesengir 1 year ago
This song brings back memories that are so dear to me-- brings to mind the person
who taught me everything I know about music-- Thank you for this beautiful song.
kinaiella1515 2 years ago
First time I heard this was in the background of some movie. I think I enjoy the beginning and end more than the mid part.
Thanks for sharing.
edgeless000 3 years ago
It was in Corina Corina.
jvmonique 2 years ago 11
@jvmonique i know i love it when Corrina & Manny play it together on the piano
Rembrandta 1 year ago
@Rembrandta Oh, I know!!! :)
jvmonique 1 year ago
@jvmonique
I was watching Corina Corina and heard this song and immediately looked it up on You Tube. I love the approach he uses and the sincerity of each note. This is excellent.
fnknebula 1 year ago
With solo piano an artist is totally exposed....No tricks or short cuts. What you've got, or haven't got, is heard by all. Bill Evans has a lot....an awful lot.
prudence999 3 years ago 74
@prudence999 You speak the truth my brother .
rstead 1 year ago
amazing amazing amazing
alackofoxygen89 3 years ago 6
The picture isn't appropriate
lupash 3 years ago 4
I agree with you. Bill Evans hated rock & roll which is what Woodstock was centered around. Very good Woodstock picture though. And to Bill.... how I wish you were still with us!!!
wolfmantim2001 2 years ago
Para Akenaton de su peke ... lissy, cuidate!
LissyCoage 3 years ago 2
Magnificent wow .... I love it ! Peace!!
missrepo 3 years ago 5
stay in peace...
hawesham 3 years ago 3
I never tire of Mr Evans--what a masterpiece--Listen to "EveryBody Diggs Bill Evans"-at least twice a week.
VanHoorelbeke 3 years ago 5
Just too beautiful for words.....
spoly13 3 years ago 7
"flamenco sketches" from Miles Davis (on the famous album "Kind of blue") is composed exactly on the same chords.. In fact,"Flamenco sketches" was recorded after "peace piece", so it's wrong that Miles is the composer of "flamenco".
mathos78 3 years ago
In fact, these 2 chords were the intro to Evans cover of Bernstein's "Some other time"... Then Evans improvised a complete tune around these chords. On "Flamenco sketches", it's the same "2 chords" but in different keys. On "Kind of blues", Miles is also credited to have composed "Blue in green"... who seams also to be an Evans Tune (the "legend" says that Davis has wrote only 2 first chords and Evans has wrote a 10 bars melody)
GozTheGreat 3 years ago 4
Hey,man..peace piece is all in C maj (ionian)..flamenco sketches is structured in 5 steps instead..so that are not the same chords.. that "obligato" both the songs start with, is just an idea that miles used, to compose a great song..
mikesax91 1 year ago
what's this picture ? I like it
elmex26 4 years ago
The best of Bill Evans !
DunhillHilton 4 years ago 2