Chords for Bill Evans on Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland - Part 1

_ [F] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ [Gm] _ [C] _ _ _ [A] _
[D] _ _ [G] _ [C] _ _ [F] _ [Gm] _ [Bbm] _
_ [C] _ [Am] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
_ [Am] _ _ [Dm] _ [C] _ [Gm] _ [A] _ _
_ [D] _ _ [G] _ [C] _ [A] _ [Dm] _ [B] _
[E] _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _
_ [Bb] _ _ [Cm] _ _ [D] _ _ [Gm] _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ [Db] _ [Gm] _ _
[Bb] _ [Eb] _ [E] _ _ [F] _ _ _ [B] _
[Ab] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [E] _ _ [Am] _
_ [Dm] _ [C] _ [Gm] _ [E] _ [A] _ _ [D] _
_ [G] _ [C] _ _ [F] _ [Bb] _ [Bbm] _ [C] _
_ [Am] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ [E] _ [Am] _
[Eb] _ [F] _ [Bb] _ [A] _ _ [G] _ [Abm] _ [F] _
_ [G] _ [Bb] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ [A] _ [G] _ [Cm] _ _ [Am] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Eb] _ Bill, that's beautiful.
Thank you.
Waltz for Debbie.
Unlike I ever heard it before.
Yes?
That's more or less the original version, written when I was just out of the Army.
I
was about 24 years old.
Probably your best known tune, isn't it?
Yeah.
It is, surprisingly enough.
The only one that I play and have recorded that I wrote
earlier than that is Very Early, which I wrote when I was in college.
Then I had three years
in the Army.
Came Waltz for Debbie.
Being so early on, _ it's surprising.
How do you feel that your playing has changed since you first started?
_ Is it deliberate
or is it just happening to change?
Well, it's deliberate.
I stay along the same lines, but I try to get a little deeper into
what I'm doing.
As far as that kind of playing goes, I think maybe my left hand is a little
more competent.
Of course, I worked a lot on inner things happening, like inner voices
I've worked on.
As far as the jazz playing goes, I think the rhythmic construction of
the thing has evolved quite a bit.
I don't know how obvious that would be to the listener,
but the displacement of phrases and the way phrases follow one another and their placement
against the meter and so forth is something that I've worked on rather hard.
_ It's something
I believe in.
It has little to do with _ trends.
It has more to do with _ my _ feeling about my
_ basic conception of jazz structure and jazz melodies and the way the rhythmic things follow
one another.
I just keep trying to get deeper into that.
As the years go by, I seem to make
some progress in that direction and do some things which please myself.
I know it's happening
even if nobody else is.
That's the main thing.
I think a lot of people forget that.
They're so busy looking around
to see what the new thing is that, quote, they are all talking about, whoever they are,
that they forget to do what you're talking about, which is doing things to please yourself
[G] and _ engineer your own growth.
_ We must look at it as an art.
Otherwise, we're going to get so confused because there are
a million things you can do.
You just have to perfect your own art.
Hopefully, there
will be room for it.
I'm very thankful for the position I have and the freedom I have.
I just keep my focus and I play what pleases me.
I wish you'd just show me what you mean about the displacement of the_
Could you do that
on that tune?
Could you do a little bit of that?
Maybe I could play a bass line or something
to help things along.
I think I could illustrate that better on, _ say, All of You.
That's one of your great [Fm] tunes.
[C] I'll _ _ [Ab] _
have to get [Abm] into it a little bit, though.
_ _ [Am] _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ [Fm] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ [E] _ _
[G] _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [Fm] _
[C] _ _ [A] _ [Ab] _ _ _ [Abm] _ _
[Em] _ [Ab] _ [E] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [F] _
[Ab] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ [G] _ [F] _
_ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ [Fm] _ _
_ [Am] _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ [Abm] _
_ [Em] _ [Ab] _ [E] _ _ _ [Ab] _ [G] _
_ _ _ [C] _ [Abm] _ _ _ [E] _
_ [G] _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ [D] _ [Fm] _
[C] _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ [Abm] _ _
_ _ [Ab] _ _ [E] _ _ [C] _ [F] _
_ [Ab] _ [D] _ _ [E] _ _ [G] _ _
[F] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [Eb] _ [Gbm] _ [Fm] _
_ [C] _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ [C] _ _ [Ab] _ [E] _ _ _ [Gbm] _
[Am] _ [C] _ [G] _ _ [Fm] _ _ [Abm] _ _
[E] _ _ [G] _ _ [F] _ _ _ [Ab] _
[Db] _ _ [C] _ [Ab] _ _ _ [Abm] _ _
_ [Ab] _ _ _ [E] _ [G] _ _ [F] _
_ [B] _ [D] _ _ [E] _ _ [G] _ [F] _
_ [C] _ _ [Gm] _ _ [A] _ _ [Dm] _
[C] _ [Ab] _ _ [E] _ _ [G] _ _ [F] _
_ [B] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ [F] _ [C] _ _ [Gb] _ _ _ [E] _
_ Go ahead.
That was wild.
You displaced it so much I couldn't find the place to come in.
You looked at me and said, I was afraid.
I thought, boy, if I come in wrong, I'm going
to throw this whole thing off.
I filled it up an awful lot, too, in maybe pushing a little hard to try to illustrate the point.
No, but you did.
Just _ one more little bit [C] against the melody.
_ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Abm] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ [Gm] _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ [G] _ [C] _
_ [A] _ [Fm] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [Ab] _
_ [Abm] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Abm] _ [C] _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [Abm] _ [C] _