Time Out Ten
Sometime Ago
Bill Evans
For this item you need to be able to stop for ten minutes.
We are often moving on to the next job, the next meeting, scrolling down social media, taking the next call ......'Time Out Ten' asks you to stop for ten minutes and listen to a particular piece of music; to find a time when you won't be interrupted, when you can put in/on your headphones and chill out. Ten minutes isn't long.
Sometime Ago is a song written by Sergio Mihanovich, an Argentine jazz pianist, singer and composer of Croatian and Serbian descent. Apparently the song found its way to the US by way of Jim Hall, who discovered it when playing with Gato Barbieri in Argentina in 1960. Jim fell in love with the song and brought it to Art Farmer, who popularized it. It has since become something of a standard, though few know the story of the man who wrote it. It was first recorded by Art Farmer and Jim Hall in 1963 on the album The Art Farmer Quartet featuring Jim Hall . There is a video of them playing it here.
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Played by pianist Bill Evans' Trio on the album You Must Believe In Spring it is an ideal way to relax for a while in the busy hubbub of the day. The album was recorded in 1977 with bassist Eddie Gomez and drummer Eliot Zigmund although it was not actually released until February 1981. There are some beautiful lines from Eddie Gomez's bass on this recording, and of course Bill Evans' playing is wonderful. Someone on another Bill Evans recording says "Bill teaches me that when playing the piano, it is ok to breathe deeply and suspend the notes just a little longer, letting them ring out. Such divine simplicity!" - I think that writer sums it up well.
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