This is a jazz biography channel, but many of my viewers ask in the comments, "What's the name of that background music?" So, I decided to compile three of my most used pieces in a video   https://youtu.be/yYdgXiZTm0k.  Also some of most watched videos are in the comments. Enjoy and thanks for watching!

Even at the age of six he practiced at the piano with a cigarette hanging from the corner of his mouth. Now that is commitment to your art.

What never gets talked about is Bill Evans 'Black activism' and anti-racism.  Drummer Jimmy Cobb spoke briefly about this before he left us in 2020.  Bill Evans is a hero in the music and outside of the music.

Bill was one of the greatest jazz pianists of the last 75 years. His life was tragic and difficult but the legacy of his music will last for a long time. Sorry we lost you too soon Bill, you were the greatest

On my favorite acid trip, a friend played Bill Evans, and I stopped in my tracks, I just sat down. It was really quite beautiful.

As a 30.year Heroin and Cocaine user l understant the stuggle .I always said lf l make it to 50 lll quit everything .5 years clean and sober.

In more than seventy years of joyful exposure to jazz, listening to no other music than Bill Evans’s sublime piano playing has been so consistently helpful to my emotional well-being.

His son's name was "Evan Evans" - reminds me of his song "Peace piece"

Bill is my favorite jazz pianist, whose playing transcends the highest form of beauty. His lush piano sounds can lift you off the ground or bring you to tears. You'd think that immense talent would erase insecurity, but Bill Evans (and many other talents) are living proof that talent is not enough to overcome entrenched feelings of inferiority. Tragic. Rest in Peace, jazzmaster ❤

Addiction magnifies my depression , and trying to quit magnifies it even more , you will also find out who your friends are . DON'T DO HARD DRUGS .......EVER .

I met/saw Bill Evans on several occasions (in '67 and '72) and was lucky enough to hear him share at least one experience (about getting paid scale for the Riverside albums).  He "transcended" classifications, I believe.

Bill Evans is poetry in sacred blue.

You just can’t duplicate what he had. His most enduring quality was his sensitivity. I wish I was old enough to have met him.

The most famous graduate Southeastern Louisiana University ever produced by a mile. His recordings and live performances are simply brilliant. 👈

An excellent piece of storytelling about one of the most tragic figures in jazz history. His musical legacy remains. There was nobody quite like him.

Knowing that a genius like Bill Evans suffered from confidence issues AND is from the next town over from where I grew up made me cry.  It was a bittersweet cry though.  It made me emotional because I am going through similar feelings currently and a lot of it is just in my head.  As a musician and producer we all go through periods of self-doubt, uncertainty, feelings of inadequacy and so on.  We have to stop being so hard on ourselves as artists and just create as the universe allows.  Bill Evans' contribution to music will never be forgotten.  We are all unique individuals who have the ability to connect with others.  Thanks so much for making this content.

It's always nice to hear Bill Evans get his musical due and hear about his amazing career. A few minor corrections: heroin isn't used "once a day" but every few hours by most heavy user, which Bill certainly was for many years. And, unfortunately, Bill's cocaine use started not long after he quit using smack. He did not "stay away from drugs for the last decade of his life", with the aforementioned cocaine use escalating to alarming proportions until his death. He started using cocaine intravenously, which is especiallty harmful and, along with poorly-treated hepatitis (acquired in his early heroin days), led to his untimely death in September 1980. One can almost "hear" this descent into cocaine use by his ever-increasing tempos of his music in live performances. Despite the tragic decline - "the longest suicide in history" - his music is sheer beauty and never falls in technical brilliance. It's a shame he couldn't have had a more rewarding personal life.

Let's just say that Bill Evan's intro to Green Dolphin St [Miles' version...Miles didn't write it]......let's say we're aliens and this intro is the only Bill Evans recorded music that survived Betelgeuse going supernova. This cat had a 'touch' on the keyboard that puts him in the pantheon of All Time Great Pianists, and l wish that the best musicians didn't have to be Tortured Geniuses to produce what they produced. Amen.

The best. Bill's playing was incredibly complex, yet accessible.

you skipped Scott Lafaro's death...  i'm sure it had a huge impact.