The Bill Evans Jazz Festival is named in honor of Bill Evans, a 1950 graduate of Southeastern and one of the most influential pianists in jazz history. By 1958, he was playing with Miles Davis, and in 1959 was the pianist for Miles’ Kind of Blue album, still the #1 selling album in jazz history.Bill later went on to establish his own jazz trio which completely changed the jazz piano tr...
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