Dec 27, 2023 1:46 PM
Blindfold Test: Bill O’Connell
In his first Blindfold Test, pianist and composer Bill O’Connell worried a bit about guessing artists correctly but…
“They were so in tune with each other, every note just works,” O’Connell said of Bill Evans and Jim Hall’s duo take on “I’m Getting Sentimental Over You.”
Dec 27, 2023 1:46 PM
In his first Blindfold Test, pianist and composer Bill O’Connell worried a bit about guessing artists correctly but…
O’Connell said, “Jazz combined the sophistication I was looking for in music with the earth and the swing. I was determined to pursue it and develop myself as a jazz pianist.”
May 10, 2022 10:50 AM
Best known as an inspired hybridizer of modernist jazz and Afrodiasporic idioms as an improviser and composer, Bill…
