1. Bill Evans and his music
... played with a band of professionals, featuring trumpeter/mellophone player Don Elliott and bassist George Platt. Platt would become Evans first musical mentor in the world of jazz. Evans told interviewer Brian Hennessy (Published after his death), "George would call out the changes for me without ever suggesting that I should have learned them for myself. Finally, instead of thinking of them as ... upon his father's retirement. He spent the next year at home working on his piano technique. After a destructive army experience he wanted to rebuild his approach to music. He told Brian Henn...
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