Absolute.

Next to my stereo system are 2 portraits. One of John Coltrane and the other of Bill Evans. Both transcendent geniuses.

Could you amplify on that for a sec?

@@johng9393yeah what exactly are you bassing that statement off of?

@@josiasgalindo8732 the bass in most of 70's sounded like a fretless bass because (i guess) they only used a pickup near the strings and not the body and/or players got too comfortable with amps and played too soft. Ron Carter also has this kind of sound and he teaches playing softer

Yeah there was a lot going on back then. Learning Amplification of a 300 year old acoustic instrument that was never designed to be played like that; evolving prominence of bass as a solo instrument, electrification of jazz. I don’t criticize the sound. I don’t love it either but try to focus on the music. That bass player is uncommonly excellent. Clean, very expressive and unusually developed sense of improvisational composition. But the bass sound is very Ampy.

You couldn‘t have said it better. There is a bitter honesty in this intro that touches me every single time I hear it.

wrote a lyric less song

@@thebossthatcounts5677 writing means chords, melody, etc. not just lyrics

@@thebossthatcounts5677dumbass

that would be ‘Blue in Green’ that was written by Bill and was falsely attributed to Miles

@@thebossthatcounts5677you’re special

..what year??? Bills hands are terribly swollen so late 70's?

OF COURSE bill wrote nardis !! dont matter if bill said miles wrote it !! you want proof ?? try to find ANOTHER TUNE REMOTELY ON THE LEVEL OF MASTERY WRITTEN BY MILES !!you cant ,next ,,miles recorded EVERY ONE OF HIS OTHER TUNES WHY DIDNT MILES HIMSELF RECORD NARDIS ?? remember miles had the habit of trying to appropriate tunes written by others ,,BILL IM SURE MADE SOME KIND OF TRANSACTIONAL DEAL WITH MILES FOR PUBLISHING AND BILL BEING THE TRUE HONORABLE GENTLEMAN THAT HE IS DECIDED TO HONOR THAT DFEAL EVEN AFTER MILES PASSED ,miles was a wonderful brilliant genius musician bandleader conceptional visionary and great jazz trumpet player but he werent no great JAZZ COMPOSER !!he could NEVER HAVE WRITTEN NARDIS !!nardis is a complex very subtle extremely innovative piece ,its obviously A PIANO PLAYERS TUNE !!

It's the space that Bill Evans leaves him. He hasn't had that kind of harmonic trust since Scott LaFaro made that iconic recording with Evans all those years ago. Even with Eddie Gomez, Evans felt the need to offer a stab here and there. LaBarbera is likely what Evans hoped LaFaro would have been like in the 70s.

@@josiah566Marc Johnson on bass, Joe LaBarbera is the drummer.

very well said, Kadee McFarlane. I'm not a musician - I should've been one - even though I believe I get you. sometimes I think jazz has this peculiarity to push its worshipers to a huge level of astonishment, something immense, overwhelming, some unspeakable sense of magnificence and timelessness as if you were seen the universe from the edge of this mesmerizing abyss of beauty. and even if you don't jump off, you'll feel embraced by and immersed in its wonder. this I say without ever having had a single experience with any kind of drugs in my entire life (not even weed, that's kinda embarrassing...). jazz is my drug. Bill and Keith my super special stuff ;) I absolutely love this sh*t. I wish you the best pursuing your goals.

+ghairraigh ...and bad solo by the drummer, unfortunately

Jazz great Bill Evans summed it up best when he said that “Joe is very dedicated to playing quality music, and he’s willing to make the concessions of dues toward that end. He’s a top soloist and he does the right thing at the right time.”

Bill 'swings' like no other. thank you for your insight into his playing.

me too capon....i'm spoiled for anyone else. :)

@@maggiessong what's amazing when he played with Miles Davis many musicians thought that he couldn't swing enough !... I don't know what the hell they were listening to..

@@pgroove163 they were just jealous. No jazz musician had the mind of BE, all repetitive folks. BE just played what he had in his mind and heart, not memorized

Sweet ninja bass skills.

Inoubliable Bill EVANS

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Haha!! He's around the same age too 😂

Totally agree with you! And if the drummer and bassist want to take a "long" solo, let em. It's jazz after all, the truly democratic music.

+Kevin Lowe yeah never understood it either. The people who complain about that are almost never heavy duty players too.

Can't believe anyone would complain about that. This is live jazz, right? At this point, he had probably been playing the song for 20+ years. He's going to play it whatever way he feels like playing it...

@@jodi183 This is not Nardis! ... I liked BE before Miles, but not after ... two different people, two different artists ... This is a good example of a top-notch artist losing a battle against self-indulgence ... and how improvisation can destroy the music.

100 % You are right. But I’ve tended towards being a pita about steadier time I know a bassist who quit Bill because of speeding up I know a drummer who told me the speeding up was understood with Bill. He loved working with Bill. Eg as in classical music. Accelerando So I can see it from both pov. I question myself for being perhaps hard headed about more steady intense time Steady Intensity is its own thing. And I’m NOT talking about metronome practice or playing that way either. But hearing Marc and Joe make this work. Gives me pause

I was thinking that

What’s the association?

@@vitalgreenspace he used samples from nardis and he probably looked where the samples are from, it’s pretty interesting to see what samples are used in rap song, surprisingly a lot of jazz

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