Evans' introspective lyricism and subtle, Western classical flourishes have echoes in a legion of fellow keyboard players. As a leader and... Bill Evans: 'Piano Impressionism' More than 25 years after ...

Pianist Bill Evans was a giant of jazz piano and one of Marian McPartland's first guests on Piano Jazz in 1979. On this program, the usually quiet... Bill Evans On Piano Jazz Bill Evans is one of the ...

Piano jazz in the late 1940s featured around 50 remarkable players, including Art Tatum, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, Al Haig, Teddy Wilson, Earl “Fatha" Hines, John Lewis, Erroll Garner, Hampton ...

Bill Evans was a genius: The jazz world, which can be roiled by factions and jealousies, usually agrees on that. He was a composer and pianist with a light, lyrical touch that was once described as ...

Four decades after his death, Evans remains part of the jazz conversation. A new anthology surveys records the jazz pianists made as leader, from 1956 until his death in 1980. This is FRESH AIR. Bill ...

Bill Evans ranks as one of jazz music’s pivotal performers. A graduate of Southeastern Louisiana College (now University) in Hammond, Evans was a prolific pianist, composer and recording artist. “In ...