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-"BILL EVANS PLAYS STANDARDS1" A music book review by Win Hinkle This is the first Hal Leonard issue of Bill Evans transcriptions and it is a great beginning. Hal Leonard purchased the Bill Evans catalog from The Richmond Organization (formerly The Acorn Group) and the Bill Evans catalogs from Teneten Music, the company owned by Nenette Evans.
The Mastery of Bill Evans is a book of transcriptions (done by the extraordinary Pascal Wetzel) that presents a close look at two of Evansn’ most beloved compositions: three versions of A“Waltz For Debby ” and two of u“Very EarlyD”. Make no mistake, this is a substantial amount of material to go through and learn from, even if only forty pages. First let
My only complaint about this book is that, like many others of course, there are no numbered bars, so referring to any particular measure(s) is difficult. But all in all, this is a fine folio, though more of a micro-study than some of the other fine transcription books of Bill Evanst’ work, in that ith’s only two tunes . It is for the serious student of the pianist's work to see how he approached these two of his earliest and perhaps best known originals in some quite diverse ways several over the span of years. For ten dollars and change, itr’s a small amount to pay for this close-up look we get inside Billd’s creative methodology.
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