Bill Evans
Piano Solo on
Blue in Green

About

Taking the 3rd solo, returning for a second turn, this piano improvisation spans two choruses of the 10-bar form at a ballad tempo of 116 BPM. Evans contributes two separate piano solo passages, one of two choruses and another of two choruses, that frame the other solos with his trademark harmonic impressionism and delicate touch. Situated between John Coltrane's tenor sax solo and Miles Davis's turn on trumpet, it occupies a pivotal spot in the arrangement.

Bill Evans was 29 to 30 years old at the time.