‘Everybody Digs Bill Evans’ Review: Anders Danielsen Lie, Laurie Metcalf and Bill Pullman in a Portrait of a Jazz Legend That Hits Every Note
‘Everybody Digs Bill Evans’ Review: Anders Danielsen Lie, Laurie Metcalf and Bill Pullman in a Portrait of a Jazz Legend That Hits Every Note
The seductive opening sequence of Everybody Digs Bill Evans draws you in like a magnet. The improvised jazz drifting through the air at the Village Vanguard in New York on a summer night in 1961 — soft, caressing, mellow, smoky — is one thing. But the extraordinary communion shared by the musicians of the Bill Evans Trio is what makes the sequence so memorable, concretizing what will later be described as “a perfect conversation” between them. Fingers skitter up and down the strings of a double bass, hands massage the piano keys, brushes gently scratch at the drums. It’s hypnotic.
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