Performing Improvisation: Bill Evans and Jean-Yves Thibaudet
Mawer, Deborah (2018) Performing Improvisation: Bill Evans and Jean-Yves Thibaudet. In: The Routledge Companion to Jazz Studies. Routledge, New York, pp. 281-291. ISBN 9781138231160
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How can one (re)perform an improvisation? How much spontaneity remains, and where might composition enter into this equation? A transcultural prism is adopted via the recordings of Jean-Yves Thibaudet as a French concert pianist of some of the iconic works of jazzman Bill Evans. Chosen early-late loci include ‘Waltz for Debby’ (1956), ‘Peace Piece’ (1958), and especially the late oeuvre ‘Song for Helen’ (1978) and ‘Your Story’ (1980). I argue that while boundaries between improvisation and composition become more blurred in the process of re-performance, substantive differences are still revealed between Evans and Thibaudet, even when handling what is supposedly the same material.
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| Subjects: | CAH25 - design, and creative and performing arts > CAH25-02 - performing arts > CAH25-02-02 - music | ||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts, Design and Media > Royal Birmingham Conservatoire | ||||
| Depositing User: | Deborah Mawer | ||||
| Date Deposited: | 29 Jun 2020 08:40 | ||||
| Last Modified: | 12 Jan 2022 16:54 | ||||
| URI: | https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/9398 |
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