David O- THANK YOU for this incredible Bill Evans interview! He is one
of my heroes, (along with Piazzolla, Tatum, & uncountable others) - a
must-listen for all of us, in any aspect of the music biz, esp. us early
music folks. Bill really explains it all quite clearly in the most
universal terms.
It ties in very well with some of the present discussion about Dowland's
problematic, cloudy, but brilliant legacy; so let me clarify some of my
feelings about this discussion. We do not want to PARROT Dowland (not
that we can), we want to CHANNEL Dowland! Big difference, but it sure is
nice to get all the details right in addition.
On 11/17/2012 9:51 AM, David van Ooijen wrote:
On 17 November 2012 18:35, Dan Winheld <[email protected]> wrote:
music, rather than a living re-creation. Even some Jazz & Blues performers
have fallen into this trap. One technically great performer I know has done
note perfect, guitar & vocals, (including ornaments) renditions of great
country blues classics. As deadly unspontaneous, boring, but "correct"
I was playing some Ortiz with a viol in concert last Sunday.
Explaining to the audience about Ortiz' textbook on ornaments, I
referred to jazz. Afterwards I was approached by a member of the
audience, a jazz player as it happened. He understood perfectly what I
had explained, as he said the viol player was not playing the jazz,
she was playing what Ortiz wrote. I, on the other hand, was playing
jazz all afternoon, as I was playing continuo. He got that right. When
I asked him about his music, he told me he was in a band that played -
note by note-perfect - 30s classics ... Where's the jazz in that? Bill
Evans talked about the Jazz Process, as opposed to Jazz Style. All
improvisation is Jazz Process for him. See the interview here:
http://youtu.be/Nsnh21ae6YI
David
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