Bill Evans

Person · Open Library

Born

1944

Works

36

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1929-08-16

Active to

1980-09-15

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

1,186,403

Total plays

27,848,577

There are at least three artists with this name: a jazz pianist, a jazz saxophonist and a banjo player. 1.) Bill Evans (born William John Evans; 16th August 1929-15th September 1980) was one of the most famous jazz pianists of the twentieth century. Along with McCoy Tyner and Oscar Peterson, he was the force behind the biggest evolution in jazz piano since Art Tatum and Bud Powell. His use of impressionistic harmony, his inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire <a href="https:/

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 41,730x

2. The ERA5 global reanalysis

   · 2020 · cited 22,816x

3. Antioxidant activity applying an improved ABTS radical cation decolorization assay

   · 1999 · cited 20,983x

4. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,520x

5. Accurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3

   · 2024 · cited 13,423x

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Quotes

• “I went through a lot of mental pains and anguish about choosing between jazz and classical. I realized that where I functioned was where I should be, and where I functioned was in jazz, so that was it.”
• “As the painter needs his framework of parchment, the improvising musical group needs its framework in time.”

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Wikidata facts

Official website

billevanssax.com

Image

Bill Evans & The Spykillers! feat. Wolfgang Haffner- Leverkusener Jazztage 2019-2713.jpg

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