Bill Evans - Spring Is Here 1960 (Jazz Piano Synthesia + Double Bass)

Transcribed by @itsRemco & @midiverse.official Spring Is Here appears on Portrait In Jazz, the landmark 1960 album from the Bill Evans Trio with Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian. This jazz piano Synthesia video pairs falling notes with the double bass so you can follow both voices. Evans had just come off recording Kind of Blue with Miles Davis, and his impressionist harmony glows through every chorus of this ballad. Transcribed by itsRemco and Midiverse, with the MIDI file available below. Original recording:    • Bill Evans Trio - Spring Is Here (Official...   Get the midi file here: https://store.midiverse.ai/products/b... 🎼 ABOUT BILL EVANS Bill Evans (1929-1980) was a classically trained pianist from Plainfield, New Jersey, who studied composition at Southeastern Louisiana and the Mannes School before moving to New York in 1955. In 1958 he joined Miles Davis, and his impressionist harmony shaped Kind of Blue, still the best-selling jazz album ever made. Leading his own trio from 1959 with bassist Scott LaFaro and drummer Paul Motian, he rewrote the rules of the format: rather than bass and drums accompanying a soloist, all three players conversed as equals. The 1961 Village Vanguard sessions that produced Sunday at the Village Vanguard and Waltz for Debby capture it perfectly, recorded days before LaFaro was killed in a car accident. Evans's rootless voicings are now the standard vocabulary of jazz piano - if you have learned modern voicings, you have learned from him. Introspective and harmonically rich: rootless left-hand voicings in close intervals, letting the bass supply the roots, under a singing, rhythmically independent right-hand line. Frequent block chords and impressionist colours borrowed from Debussy and Ravel. Soft touch, flexible time inside a firm pulse. 🎹 TURN ANY PIANO RECORDING INTO MIDI Want to learn this piece — or any recording — with falling notes like in this video? I built Transcribe by Midiverse: upload audio and it becomes MIDI with left/right hand separation, a falling-notes practice mode, slow-down and looping. Free to start: ► https://transcribe.midiverse.ai 🎧 HOW TO PRACTISE THIS PIECE Learn the melody and the changes before anything else. Slow the video down, loop the tricky bars, and pay attention to voice leading in the inner voices — that is where the harmony really lives. 🔎 MORE PIANO SYNTHESIA ON THIS CHANNEL ► Bill Evans Piano Synthesia Playlist (37 videos):    • Bill Evans Piano Synthesia Playlist (itsRe...   ► Solo jazz piano Synthesia:    / @itsremco   ► All videos:    / @itsremco   📸 Instagram:   / its.remco   🤖 Reddit:   / its_remco   🎹 Midiverse on Instagram:   / midiverse.official   ▶️ Midiverse on YouTube:    / @midiverse.official   ABOUT THIS CHANNEL itsRemco is a piano Synthesia channel dedicated to jazz piano, from early New Orleans and stride through swing, bebop and the modern standards repertoire. Every video shows the notes falling in real time so you can see exactly what both hands are playing, learn by ear and eye together, and practise along at your own pace. Subscribe for new piano transcriptions every week. #jazzpiano #billevans #synthesia #springishere #jazzballad #modernjazz #pianotrio #portraitinjazz #jazzstandard #pianotutorial #pianocover #fallingnotes #midipiano #jazzmusic #doublebass