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How My Heart Sings
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Browse piano sheets by Bill Evans on Zen Virtual Piano. Bill Evans was a jazz pianist whose career helped reshape the conversation between piano, bass and drums. Born in Plainfield, New Jersey, he studied at Southeastern Louisiana University, graduating with a Bachelor of Music in 1950. After service in the Army, he returned to New York in 1955 and worked and recorded with Tony Scott and George Russell. Several months in Miles Davis’s band in 1958 placed Evans alongside John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderley during Davis’s move toward modal improvisation. Evans then organized his own trio, with bassist Scott LaFaro and drummer Paul Motian joining by the end of 1959. They developed an interactive approach in which each instrument could carry melodic responsibility, rather than leaving all of it to the piano. His recorded repertoire included How My Heart Sings, composed by Earl Zindars. Evans described its interplay of a waltz line and a four-beat interlude. The trio with LaFaro and Motian recorded four albums before LaFaro’s death in 1961, including two drawn from a Village Vanguard performance.
Browse piano sheets by Bill Evans on Zen Virtual Piano.
Bill Evans was a jazz pianist whose career helped reshape the conversation between piano, bass and drums. Born in Plainfield, New Jersey, he studied at Southeastern Louisiana University, graduating with a Bachelor of Music in 1950. After service in the Army, he returned to New York in 1955 and worked and recorded with Tony Scott and George Russell.
Several months in Miles Davis’s band in 1958 placed Evans alongside John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderley during Davis’s move toward modal improvisation. Evans then organized his own trio, with bassist Scott LaFaro and drummer Paul Motian joining by the end of 1959. They developed an interactive approach in which each instrument could carry melodic responsibility, rather than leaving all of it to the piano.
His recorded repertoire included How My Heart Sings, composed by Earl Zindars. Evans described its interplay of a waltz line and a four-beat interlude. The trio with LaFaro and Motian recorded four albums before LaFaro’s death in 1961, including two drawn from a Village Vanguard performance.
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With Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian, he developed playing in which all three instruments shared melodic responsibilities. Bass and drums acted as interactive voices rather than only accompaniment.
After returning to New York in 1955, he worked with Tony Scott and George Russell. In 1958, he spent several months with Miles Davis, alongside John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderley.
He attended Southeastern Louisiana University and graduated with a Bachelor of Music in 1950.