![]() When I got into jazz, I was in my twenties. What was the problem? Bill Evans was white. When I listened to Evans’s studio LP Explorations-with drummer Paul Motian and bassist Scott LaFaro-my Evans-induced hypnotic trance deepened and so did my problem. But it was the poetic and profound pianism of Bill Evans that haunted me the most. ![]() Transfixed by the many aural shades of the LP’s blue moods, I made it a point to get every recording the musicians on the album had ever made. ![]() record store when I heard Kind of Blue, Miles Davis’s midtempo, modal masterpiece of an album that for me, and many others, was an initiation into the colors, cadences, and complexities of jazz. In the early ‘80s, I was working in a Washington, D.C. “I never experienced any racial barriers in jazz other than from some members of the audience.”-Bill Evans
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