Bill Evans and the Trouble with the Tortured Genius Myth

Bill Evans and the trouble with the tortured genius myth

A new biopic of the great jazz pianist who died too soon neatly sidesteps music biopic cliches

Time Remembered – Everybody Digs Bill Evans

A bleak study of chronic addiction and grief, Everybody Digs Bill Evans is a biographical drama film about the famous jazz pianist and composer

Everybody Digs Bill Evans review – a quietly devastating jazz elegy

In Grant Gee’s devastating semi-fiction debut, Anders Danielsen Lie stuns as jazz pianist Bill Evans in the wake of his bandmate’s sudden death. In stark black and white, this fact-based drama opens with us eavesdropping on what would become a milestone jazz trio recording. June 1961, pianist Bill Evans heads up a serene Sunday afternoon session at New York’s storied club the Village Vanguard. A repeated two-note figure from bassist Scott LaFaro…