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by P Pettinger (Author) "William John Evans, the younger of two brothers, was born on August 16, 1929, in Plainfield, New Jersey ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Yale University Press; New edition edition (15 Aug 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0300097271
  • ISBN-13: 978-0300097276
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.7 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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Terry Teachout, New York Times Book Review
"A fine new biography, packed with shrewd critical commentary."

Tom Moon, Philadelphia Inquirer
"Pettinger sets out to catalogue and explain Evans’ wide-ranging genius ... Pettinger shows how the personal helped shape the artistic sensibility of this jazz innovator."

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Musicians Delight, 9 Dec 1998
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This review is from: Bill Evans: How My Heart Sings (Hardcover)
As I anticipated from a concert pianist and author Peter Pettinger, his book about Bill Evans is a brilliant account of the musical development of the keyboard genius. This is a book which focusses much of the time on the musical finesse of Bill Evans. As a jazz musician I was very enriched by the great love and attention Pellinger has given to the musical details - with a lesser entanglement with the side tracks or curiosities and value judgements which are pursued by some biographers. Neither is this a superficial account of Evans life; the pianistic and other life challenges of Bill's ever increasing drug addiction are adequately covered. The biography excels in presenting rich musical insights about a musicians musician; the technical analysis of Bill's musical talent is surely the integral part of his story. This biography of Bill Evans is outstanding because it has been written by a fellow musician who has the ability to understand and document the sheer musical genius of Bill Evans - at a higher professional level than most writers could ever achieve.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent biography, includes a complete discography., 8 Nov 1998
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Evans is a giant of piano jazz and is universally known and revered by nearly all of today's principal practitioners of the art. Extensive in its research and written with the insight of a concert pianist it is illuminating and a very enjoyable read. A very complete discography is include which is worth many times the price of the book. JNP
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2.0 out of 5 stars Please Don't Believe Them, 27 Sep 2008
Well, all I can say about the other reviewers in this section is that they must have read a lot of lousy books in their time to make this hack job look half-way decent.
The story itself, once you peel under the book's assumption that this is the definitive study, moves along in little more than a "and then Bill did this" way that might serve as an example in how not to write an engaging biography. One never gets, at any point, a complete picture of the man and the forces which shaped him and his wonderful music.
But what I found so irritating in the reviews, indeed what irritated me so much about the book, was this air of assumed expertise and mutual congratulation: as if by being a concert pianist (though not a great one by any standards) the author had a hot-line to the Evans' creative soul. In fact, as a musician myself, I found the author's technical analysis of Evans' work woefully poor, and the study of Evans' extraordinary harmonic capacity almost non-existent.
I was expecting so much of this book, and it delivered so little; except in proving that crossing genres is not always a good thing and exposing what must be the rank gullibility of much of the jazz audience in falling for this sort of guff.
"Well, he was a classical pianist so we should be grateful he's bothering to spend his time with us jazz-heads at all!"
You would learn a whole lot more about Evans the man, let alone the musician, by just pouring yourself a large glass of wine and listening to one of his albums. No doubt no one will find this review useful because I dared to say that this is a distinct case of emperor's new clothes. A real missed opportunity & a lousy book.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Very informative and easy to read
For Jazz Piano fans this is a must have book, written by a concert pianist Peter Pettinger. This is a lot more than the cobbled together batch of newspaper stories you get with... Read more
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