Five horrendous tragedies from the life of Bill Evans

Five horrendous tragedies from the life of Bill Evans

He was the Chopin of American jazz; an otherworldly master of both the art of performance and composition on the piano from the late 1950s through the 1970s. But there’s no need for me to try to explain what was great about Bill Evans. The people who played alongside him were more than happy to do so. Miles Davis, who selected Evans to play on arguably the most celebrated jazz album of all-time, 1959’s Kind of Blue, described him as having “this…