His reharmonizations are so beautiful that when playing standards, most musicians use his changes, rather than the original ones. He was able to create alterations to a tune’s original harmony in short order, often in the studio just before recording a tune. He was a master in interpreting standards, he made arrangements, reharmonized them and rephrased the melodic lines. There’s still explorations that I haven’t begun to make yet into handling these things.” In an interview with Rubin and Enstice for the book Jazz Spoken Here (Da Capo Press, 1994) Evans stated, “I respect the American popular song very much and some of the masters that have composed in that form … and I studied this very hard, analytically and diligently as I was growing…. Evans’ focus settled on traditional jazz standards and his own original compositions.
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