nochmal nachgesehen – dearies einfluss sowohl auf miles wie auf evans war wohl nicht zu unterschätzen. dave frishberg erinnert sich hier an eine aussage von evans:
During the late sixties I played a couple weeks solo opposite the Bill Evans Trio at the Village Gate on Bleecker St, and had some conversations with Bill. I asked him how he came upon his piled-fourths voicing of chords, and his immediate answer was that he heard Blossom Dearie play that way and it really knocked him out. Then he did a little rave review of Blossom, naming her as one of his models of piano playing. It was such a surprising response that I never forgot it.
dearie hing ja in den 40ern in gil evans‘ keller herum, als gerade BIRTH OF THE COOL entwickelt wurde, lernte dort miles kennen („the only white woman who ever had soul“), ging in den 50ern nach paris, wo sie mit michel legrand zusammenarbeite, ab 1956, zurück in new york (mit ehemann bobby jaspar), nimmt sie für verve auf, u.a. legrands „once upon a summertime“ (1958), ein lieblingslied von miles, der es später, für QUIET NIGHTS, von gil evans nach ihrer version arrangieren ließ („Gil Evans came down to my house one day and said: ‚I want to hear you play it, because Miles wants to record it.‘ So I played it for him. Later I talked to him on the phone and he said: ‚That was it, Blossom—I heard you play it, and I heard the whole arrangement.'“, von hier).
und dann kommen die beiden jazzinterpretationen von bernsteins „some other time“, erst von bill evans (dezember 1958), dann von dearie (anfang april 1959), evans erfindet in der einleitung das „peace piece“, aus dem „flamenco sketches“ (ende april 1959) wird. miles und gil evans hängen drin, auch die haben blossom dearie schon lange zeit gut zugehört. vorher hatte eigentlich niemand die bernstein/comden/green-songs aus ON THE TOWN (1944) in jazzversionen gespielt.
Bill Goldberg: Did Miles listen to much other jazz or some of the different styles in the late fifties?
Bill Evans: Miles was very much an independent person, like, I know that when I was hanging out with him, he liked people as different as, well he was very influenced by Ahmad Jamal for a while. And he loved Blossom Dearie, who I love also. He would get things from people like that he could throw into his own work, and you would hardly know where it was coming from. And I don’t know who all he listened to, but that’s the way he would sort of pick up things, and I don’t think; I think he certainly did listen.
von hier.
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