How My Heart Sings
Bill Evans
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Browse piano sheets by Bill Evans on Zen Virtual Piano. Bill Evans joined Miles Davis in 1958 in what proved to be a historic eight-month collaboration. Before that, he studied theory and composition with Gretchen Magee and became deeply appreciative of her guidance. In 1950 he finished a music teaching degree at Southeastern Louisiana College, and New York City was his next destination. A teaching degree in 1950 and a collaboration with Miles Davis in 1958 may point to a musician whose path moved from study to prominent stages. His first professional jobs were at dances, weddings, and other events between Elizabeth and New Brunswick, and he worked several nights a week plus weekends. Curious about how music was put together, he spent private hours working through material nobody had taught him. Evans said: "Everything I've learned, I've learned with feeling being the generating force. I've never approached the piano as a thing in itself, but as a gateway to music." Those early dance and wedding jobs, together with his remark about the piano as a gateway to music, may hint at a player shaped by both working experience and his own study. The title song of How My Heart Sings is another waltz by Earl Zindars, who composed Elsa. Evans's trio recorded Elsa for the album Explorations, and Evans also played on the Cannonball Adderley Quartet LP Know What I Mean, which includes the piece. Jazz pianists still draw on his impressionist harmony, his block chords and innovative voicings, and his singing melodic lines that move independently in rhythm. A waltz by Earl Zindars on one record and Zindars's Elsa on others may suggest a repertoire where one composer's music returned in different settings. Evans's stay in the Army was traumatic, and it caused him to have nightmares for years. Heroin addiction affected his work in the 1960s, yet he recovered, and The Bill Evans Album in 1971 started a career resurgence. He became addicted to cocaine shortly before his death in 1980. Thomas Hardy's works became a love of Evans, and he grew into something of an expert on them. He also felt a strong kinship with William Blake, the visionary eighteenth-century poet and painter. A traumatic stay in the Army that caused years of nightmares and the collaboration with Miles Davis in 1958 may point to a life that held both prominent work and hardship.
Browse piano sheets by Bill Evans on Zen Virtual Piano.
Bill Evans joined Miles Davis in 1958 in what proved to be a historic eight-month collaboration. Before that, he studied theory and composition with Gretchen Magee and became deeply appreciative of her guidance. In 1950 he finished a music teaching degree at Southeastern Louisiana College, and New York City was his next destination. A teaching degree in 1950 and a collaboration with Miles Davis in 1958 may point to a musician whose path moved from study to prominent stages.
His first professional jobs were at dances, weddings, and other events between Elizabeth and New Brunswick, and he worked several nights a week plus weekends. Curious about how music was put together, he spent private hours working through material nobody had taught him. Evans said: "Everything I've learned, I've learned with feeling being the generating force. I've never approached the piano as a thing in itself, but as a gateway to music." Those early dance and wedding jobs, together with his remark about the piano as a gateway to music, may hint at a player shaped by both working experience and his own study.
The title song of How My Heart Sings is another waltz by Earl Zindars, who composed Elsa. Evans's trio recorded Elsa for the album Explorations, and Evans also played on the Cannonball Adderley Quartet LP Know What I Mean, which includes the piece. Jazz pianists still draw on his impressionist harmony, his block chords and innovative voicings, and his singing melodic lines that move independently in rhythm. A waltz by Earl Zindars on one record and Zindars's Elsa on others may suggest a repertoire where one composer's music returned in different settings.
Evans's stay in the Army was traumatic, and it caused him to have nightmares for years. Heroin addiction affected his work in the 1960s, yet he recovered, and The Bill Evans Album in 1971 started a career resurgence. He became addicted to cocaine shortly before his death in 1980. Thomas Hardy's works became a love of Evans, and he grew into something of an expert on them. He also felt a strong kinship with William Blake, the visionary eighteenth-century poet and painter. A traumatic stay in the Army that caused years of nightmares and the collaboration with Miles Davis in 1958 may point to a life that held both prominent work and hardship.
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In 1958 Bill Evans joined Miles Davis in what proved to be a historic eight-month collaboration.
Evans studied theory and composition with Gretchen Magee and became deeply appreciative of her guidance.
Evans said he had never approached the piano as a thing in itself, but as a gateway to music.
After a 1960s output affected by heroin addiction, Evans recovered and began a career resurgence with The Bill Evans Album in 1971.