Monday, February 2, 2015

Bill Evans on the Creative Process and Self-Teaching

In 1966, legendary jazz pianist Bill Evans (August 16, 1929–September 15, 1980) sat down with his composer brother, Harry Evans, for an intense and deeply insightful conversation later released as Universal Mind of Bill Evans: The Creative Process and Self-Teaching. From filmmaker William Meier comes this gorgeous cinematic adaptation of Evans’s thoughts on the autodidactic quality of creativity and the value of working at the intersection of clarity, complexity, and spontaneity.







Here is a longer excerpt from the documentary, where Evans discusses the step-by-step process of creative problem-solving:


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