This is how jazz movies should be made: just footage of the music itself, tastefully shot. No talking over the music allowed. This film combines a mid-sixties trio concert with another one from 1980. The small 60s audience is concentrated but undemonstrative. The later audience applauds in unison. Both sets are wonderful, and the contrasts / continuities are very interesting. The trio was Evans's best format.
Listen for Stella by Starlight and Nardis.
I thought roughly the same thing about Mingus in 1968. About his eviction. (You can find it on YouTube). The lack of a voice over makes it hard to follow, but in the end you "get it" at a much deeper level.
ResponderEliminarI know nothing about jazz compared to what I know about classical music but I do know what I like and I've never heard anything by Bill Evans that I didn't like.
ResponderEliminarThere are a few things of Bill Evans I don't like, but very, very few things.
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