CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Bill Evans: Turn out the Stars

By: Ron Hart Toward the end of his life, pianist Bill Evans' image was the exact opposite of the button-down, bespectacled young square who first burst onto the jazz scene in 1956 as the rising young lion on the jazz circuit who landed into history as the piano player for Miles Davis' 1958 masterwork Kind of Blue. Rocking a gentleman's mullet, full beard and wire-frame glasses with the tint, Evans looked more like he should have been sitting beside Scott Muni during the afternoon drive shift o...

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