# Bill Evans had changed by very early ’70s and interview: Videos, Photos

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2018/03/19/bill-evans-had-changed-by-very-early-70s-and-interview-videos-photos/
- Published: 2018-03-19T10:13:40+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**Bill Evans had changed by early 1972. The pianist who looked like a gaunt accountant
in the 1960s sported a mustache by 1971. A year later, his hair was college-campus
long, and he also sounded different. Instead of playing with shy, lyrical patience
and lots of space, Evans sounded more agitated in his keyboard attack.**

This visual and artistic transformation has been attributed to a wide range of factors,
from jazz-rock fusion’s atmospheric influence to his growing frustration with the
pianos he had to play while touring more extensively and his increased use of cocaine.
Whatever the reasons, a marked intensity and crankiness had crept into his music.

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**Bill Evans Trio At Helsinki, Finland 1970, interview excerpts**

Two videos give us rare glimpses into this newly emerging Evans, a period that I’ve
referred to in liner notes as his “percussive poet” phase. The first video features
Evans around February 1972 in Paris in front of a live audience, with Eddie Gomez
on bass and Marty Morell on drums. I believe it’s film that was for a French TV 
show called _Jazz Session_…

![Image result for Bill Evans paris 1972](https://asset.dr.dk/imagescaler/?file=%
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The second video was taped with Gomez and Morell in late June or July 1972. The 
show was called The Jazz Set and was hosted by Chris Albertson. It aired on PBS 
nationwide. In an interview during the show with Albertson, Evans refers to his 
forthcoming Living Time album for Columbia with George Russell. He says that he 
and Russell had just mixed it. Since the album was recorded in May ’72, the time
frame here is likely early summer…

![Image result for Bill Evans: Very Early '70s](https://i0.wp.com/i.ytimg.com/vi/
xix9KVnPxPY/hqdefault.jpg?w=640&ssl=1)

**Bonus:** Blood, Sweat & Tears playing Bill Evans’s _Time Remembered_…

![Image result for Bill Evans: Very Early '70s](https://i0.wp.com/uamodna.com/assets/
articles/image/e/j/x/ejxbnl6c/fullsize.jpg?w=640&ssl=1)

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