Looks like it has once been on this site, but i cannot find it anymore. First appearing on miles davis classic jazz album kind of blue in 1959, the song is often. William john evans was an american jazz pianist and composer who mostly played in trios. Download and print blue in green sheet music for piano solo by miles davis in the range of f3a6 from sheet music. Bill evans the solo sessions volume 1 purchase album stream album. Posted is a transcription of the introduction, head and bill evans solo on minority album. The transcription contains only the piano and bass parts. The concert in canada is a live album by jazz pianist bill evans with eddie gomez and marty morell recorded in camp fortune, gatineau, quebec, canada in 1974 and released on the milestone label in 1991. All blues by miles davis, bill evans, transcription. Until the arrival of the lp, id been locked to the piano with pianist oscar peterson, phineas newborn, george shearing, and dave brubeck. Bill evans, american jazz pianist known for lush harmonies and lyrical improvisation, one of the most influential pianists of his time. This is one of bills early albums featuring the great bassist scott lafaro. He graduated with a music teaching degree from southeastern louisiana college in 1950. Transcriptions of bill evans s jazz piano solos including waltz for debby, green dolphin street, a time for love, one for helen, turn out the stars.
Piano players composition transcriptionsheet solo performances. Volume 4 is by jeff brent, a jazz pianist, composer, teacher, and author of modalogy and other acclaimed jazz theory and education books. Impd154 entitled bill evans, roy haynes, eric dolphy, oliver nelson, paul chambers, freddie hubbard the blues and the abstract truth. Hal leonard digital sheet music at sheet music plus. In our catalog, you can find bill evans sheet music for piano, drums, flute. Blue in green piano sheet music you can print the sheet music, beautifully rendered by sibelius, up to three times. The main theme of the bad and the beautiful by vincente minnelli 1952, composed by david raksin, author of many film scores and of the famous laura, was interpreted piano solo by bill evans for the second album recorded september 1976 by the tony bennett bill evans duet. Sep 08, 2015 bill evans trio portrait in jazz bill evans piano scott lafaro double bass paul motian drums. A couple of the songs for nenette and my bells are presented in easier keys, as well as in the. The solo transcription was done mostly as an exercise in melodic diction so i have not concerned to a great extent rhythmic accuracy. Alice in wonderland autumn leaves bills hit tune blue in green.
Bill evans transcriptions take a look at my collection of transcriptions with me, sound of love my mans gone now nardis how deep is the ocean lucky to be. The sheet music contained on the transcription page of. You can print the sheet music, beautifully rendered by sibelius, up to three times. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of tradit. This intro is taken in the key of a major, instead of the usual f major for this tune, and it offers a few interesting short modulations not heard in his more traditional takes. The following is a listing of the jazz pianist bill evans original albums. In this book jeff shares detailed analysis of transcriptions of live performances. Although the original release gave composition credit of blue in green to davis, evans claimed he wrote it entirely, based on two chords suggested by davis nowadays, they receive cocredit. Blue in green milestone bill evans similar allmusic. Im using the original audio for educational purposes. One of the first was wynton kellys fourchorus solo on freddie freeloader from miles davis quintessential album, kind of blue. Free pdf piano sheet music for blue in green bill evans. Hi folks, im back this time with a new transcription of a classic bill evans solo introduction, waltz for debby as played on the cbs 1971 bill evans album. This is likely my last bill evans post but i think i will be moving on to some other.
You can either print the sheet music from our website, or from playgrounds mac and pc. Miles claims in his autobiography that he wrote all of the tunes on kind. In this article well take a look at how to play this piece as a solo piano arrangement. Blue in green comprises a canadian concert by the bill evans trio.
An analysis of the compositions of bill evans, billy strayhorn, and bill murray. The canada concert is one of my favorite bill evans albums. I had a look at your transcription of i loves you porgy, as played by bill at montreaux. In any case, kind of blue now the biggestselling acoustic jazz. Im aware that bill evans often spoke vehemently of blue in green being his own composition. Bill evans films of the humanities and sciences, 1998 11. Bill evans sheet music free download in pdf or midi on musescore. Gretchen parlatos the lost and found album released in 2011. Piano transcriptions archive including more than 950 transcriptions in pdf of popular jazz pianist. I recently revisited some of the videos uploaded by my youtube friend roger lot2learn. John coltrane on blue in green this solo doesnt need much of an introduction. Download your blue in green chord melody, solo, and more pdf here. Pressed on 180gram vinyl, this 4lp set includes the original 2 bennettevans albums, plus 2 discs of alternate takes and outtakes.
Yes the chords have bill evans written all over them, perhaps miles had some say in the melody. Bill evans blue in green, the best of the early years 1955. Bill evans trio portrait in jazz bill evans piano scott lafaro double bass paul motian drums. Blue in green voicing sheet music for piano download free in.
The album is worth checking out if you havent already. Though miles has been given credit for the tune, it has long been speculated that pianist bill evans actually wrote the tune. The transcription of the head was done as an exercise in hearing harmony and voicings. Soundbite of blue in green, performed by the late miles davis. The tight and almost telepathic musical communication between the musicians, the strong repertoire six evans originals, a pair of ballads, and so what. Print and download in pdf or midi blue in green voicing miles davis bill evans. Jazz piano transcriptions archive include about 950 piano. Blue in green is the third tune on miles davis 1959 album, kind of blue. It was through a cover story in a 1960 downbeat magazine that i discovered pianist bill evans. Pianist evans, bassist eddie gomez, and drummer marty morell had been playing regularly together since 1969 gomez had joined the group back in 1966.
Evans really lets you have it here with his wonderful texturally rich approach that we have all come to know and love. Johnny griffin rhythmaning concert pitch rhythmaning for bb instruments from thelonious in action 1958. This transcription is done by jorn swart and covers bill playing the start of my romance on his lonesome in that impeccable way of his. Many of the real books reference miles as the author and so i included here it for easy reference. Bill evans solo transcription note for note from waltz for debby, 1962. Someday my prince will come bill evans solos transcription. The end result transcription is the transcribers view of the original authors work. Ive already posted about the issues of letter from evans that are available on scribd. Excellent source for bill evans compositions, made a bit more manageable. Best transcriptions sharepoint, interactive exercises to enhance musical expression, technique and creativity.
How many of these transcriptions have already been released in other bill evans transcription books. Ive snabbed the pdfs and extracted the following transcriptions from various issues. There are some points in which the playing was rhythmically free most likely on purpose. To that end, weve released an amazing collection of bill evans most astounding songs and solos in digital database software. With that issue came a subscription offer that included a copy of the bill evans trio everybody digs bill evans, on the riverside label.
You can either print the sheet music from our website, or from playgrounds mac and pc applications. Bill evans blue in green the concert in canada 1991. I have recently begun making electronic versions of some these transcriptions using studio vision and finale. I reuploaded this video as i really messed up the audio and had to rerender everything. He broke new ground in many of his piano trio, duet and solo recordings. That way i can see in the analytics what kind of videos people want. Introduction to jazz piano blue in green by miles davis. He recorded over 50 albums as a leader between 1956 and 1980 and also played as a sideman on nearly as many more. Simply put, no one delivers the level of sensitivity and touch that bill evans had. I would suggest that miles daviss 1959 recording kind of blue is. While in new haven i began transcribing segments of piano recordings i wanted to learn and play.
Transcriptions bill evans minority piano head and solo. While studying at berklee college of music in 19761977 i took a class where we learned to sightsing melodies, conducting 44 or. If you want to see more bill evans uploads just like and subscribe. Rare transcriptions 2 song recording 1i hear a rhapsodywith jim hall undercurrent 2. Given its in the real book key of c and utilising judicious use of reharmonisation, this is a great excerpt to just sit back and enjoy playing. Intuition has to lead knowledge, but it cant be out there alone bill evans wkipedia. Bill evans a stepbystep breakdown of the piano styles and techniques of a jazz legend by brent edstrom ro. In honor of miles davis 80th birthday friday, writer and poet quincy troupe discusses. Bill evans sheet music free download in pdf or midi on. Transcriptions on are for educational use only and may not used forprofit in any way. Blue in green, the best of the early years 195560 music.
Quite a bit of the album consists of ballads, the two lonely people, what are you doing for the rest of your life and of course the title track blue in green, but there are also a few jams as well. Introduction to jazz piano blue in green by miles davis youtube. The 1970s also saw evans collaborate with the singer tony bennett on 1975s the tony bennettbill evans album and. Music notes for piano solo sheet music by miles davis miles davis. Jazz piano transcriptions recommended jazz advanced piano. Bill evans blue in green, the best of the early years.
Blue in green tutorial bill evans chords, voicings, pdf. They dont name a transcriber for this omnibook collection. Midnight mood from the alone album i loves you porgy from recording at the montreux jazz. I had forgotten that he had done an excellent version of blue in green that classic from the best.
Transcriptions of bill evanss jazz piano solos including waltz for debby, green dolphin street, a time for love, one for helen, turn out the stars. Several of those won or were nominated for grammy awards. Nenette and bill remained married until bills death in 1980. Bill evans, miles davis, charles mingus, art farmer, bob brookmeyer, george russell, the eddie costa quartet, lucy reed, frank minon, jimmy cobb bill evans. Jun, 20 this is a transcription of the twochorus solo that pianist bill evans takes with the miles davis sextet on love for sale. The capstone of this arch upon an arch is the thirty seconds or so of coltranes solo. Shop our newest and most popular bill evans sheet music such as peace piece, everything happens to me and autumn leaves, or click the button above to browse all bill evans sheet music. In 1974, bill evans recorded a multimovement jazz concerto written for him by claus ogerman entitled symbiosis. Bill evans with harry evans on the creative process 9. Quite a bit of the album consists of ballads, the two lonely people, what are you doing for the rest of your life and of course the title track blue in green, but there are also a.
Frequence analysis of so what the sessions monday, march 02, 1959. Blue in green by miles davis miles davis digital sheet. Bill evans with harry evans on the creative process by editel of new york 8. Blue in green from the album kind of blue by miles davis. Npr contractor, and produced using a proprietary transcription process developed with npr. Letter evans, wing 1994 suggested lefthand voicings in absence of bass 1140 solo quiet double time 3. Blue in green is the third tune on miles davis 1959. Download for free in pdf midi format, or print directly from our site.
It doesnt matter what instrument you play, that is something you desperately want in your playing. Search our free piano sheet music database for more. Its taken from the columbia recording originally entitled jazz track, although these days youre probably more likely to find it under the reissue title of 58 miles. A compilation of articles now revised and expanded that originally appeared in the quarterly newsletter letter from evans, this unique folio features extensive analysis of evans work. Musicnotes features the worlds largest online digital sheet music catalogue with over 300,000 arrangements available to print and play instantly.
Apr 12, 2012 blue in green is a ballad allegedly written by miles davis for his famous hit record kind of blue. However bill evans, the composer, has yet to take his place alongside the great masters of composition. See new and popular bill evans songs, uploaded by musescore users, connect with a community of musicians who love to write and play music. Prior to this i had picked out songs by ear like the beatles lady madonna and martha my dear, memorizing them as i went, and thus bypassing the process of attempting to notate what i was hearing. Bill evans blue in greenthe concert in canada amazon. Bill evans the complete live at the village vanguard 1961 riverside j vicj 6095 bill evans, piano. Blue in green is the third track on miles davis album kind of blue which is the bestselling jazz album of all time. Bill evans minority piano head and solo more information home about fji departments linear jazz improvisation.
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