La Laurie de Bill Evans se souvient

With Bill, it wasn’t as though he was divided between two different personalities. He showed me that it was all one thing: creativity and destruction. You couldn’t separate out the beauty of his art and the ugliness of his addiction and physical state. They were one in the same, feeding off each other. [...] It’s like New York City. What has always attracted me about New York is the enormous amount of high culture set in a filthy grimy tension-producing place. But that’s what makes it special. The contrasts. The puzzle.

Entrevue avec la Canadienne qui aura inspiré à Bill Evans une de ses dernières compositions, Laurie. Laurie Verchomin fut l'amante de Bill Evans dans les 18 derniers mois de la vie du grand pianiste. Une lecture à la fois émouvante et très troublante sur l'extase artistique et la déchéance physique de l'immortel compositeur de Blue In Green. Sur l'excellent site JazzWax.