What About Bill Evans?

Hard bop is no kidsgame

and it will lead to stronger stuff.

What about Bill Evans?

He had to climb so high to hit those chords he died.

Lefties will do that, I'm told.

They do however make interesting transitions

on the low end.

He was a ghost in his own lifetime,

moving among rhythms darker than blue.

Bill Evans could cook up so much color 

out of shiny black vinyl

at the other end 

of the needle.

Block chord road block

on the scalar approach 

to the summit of mainline zen.

They say Bill's habit was a problem.

Maybe it was 

but he had to, 

because you can't 

pull true harmony from nowhere

unless you're almost there yourself.

The piano is nodding in the corner.

It's no kidsgame, people.

Everybody Digs Bill Evans.

I do, 

Don't you?