I must have listened to this piece of music a hundred times in the last month, ever since discovering it on a Giles Petterson compilation – heres a version by a piano teacher, its called Peace Piece by Bill Evans…. & I think I might even try & teach myself to play it… on gamelan (kidding!)
Beautiful huh? especially when Bill Evans himself plays it, if it appeals hunt down his album ‘Everybody Digs Bill Evans’… Miles Davis is quoted as saying:”Bill had this quiet fire that I loved on piano. The way he approached it, the sound he got, was like crystal notes or sparkling water cascading down from some clear waterfall.”
Funnily enough, the piece came into existence during a recording session for a piece of music called Some Other Time by Leonard Bernstein; “I started to play the introduction, and it started to get so much of its own feeling and identity that I just figured, well, I’ll keep going.” Have a listen:
Funnily enough Miles Davis went on to appropriate the intro for Flamenco Sketches on the Kind of Blue album… And lastly, a truly beautiful arrangement of Peace Piece for vibes by Evan Chapman:
