He is an English journalist, singer and jazz aficionado. I mean, if I play it for a period of time, then I quickly tire of it, and I want to get back to the acoustic piano.” (From an interview with Bill Evans in 1972 by Les Tomkins (1930). I don’t enjoy spending a lot of time with the electric piano. I guess it’s for other people to judge how effective it’s been on my records I enjoyed it, anyway. I find that it’s kind of a refreshing auxiliary to the piano- but I don’t need it, you know. I don’t really look on it as a piano- merely an alternate keyboard instrument, that offers a certain kind of sound that’s appropriate sometimes. Like, I’ve used the Fender- Rhodes piano on a couple of records.

Finally on some titles of the duo album Intuition (1978) with Eddie Gomez he plays the Fender Rhodes.īill Evans: “I don’t think too much about the electronic thing, except that it’s kind of fun to have it as an alternate voice. New Conversations (1978) is the third and final recording of his overdubbed solo albums with monologues, dialogues and trialogues alternating between the acoustic and electric piano. He released the albums Living Time (1972) with George Russell and Symbiosis (1974) with Claus Ogerman where he plays long passages on electric piano. The second release was The Bill Evans Album in 1971, where he plays all his own compositions on acoustic and electric piano with Eddie Gomez on bass and Marty Morrell on drums. On the album he swaps effortlessly back and forth from the acoustic piano to the Fender Rhodes electric piano. Some purists disapprove Bill Evans playing the Fender Rhodes piano, whereas he should deny his recognisable touch on the acoustic grand piano with his characteristic chord voicings. Bill Evans playing the electric piano is rather controversial.

Bill Evans released in 1970 his first ‘electric’ album From Left To Right, well before Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock and Joe Zawinul worked on it. An non-acoustic instrumental approach was the development in 1965 of the Fender Rhodes Piano.

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