Re: GG and all that jazz

[Josh Randall <joshr@glyff.com>]

>>Kate asks: "...did GG ever play jazz?"

Gould may not have played Jazz, but his piano sometimes did. He was an
acquaintance, at least, of the great Jazz pianist Bill Evans, who played
Gould's own Steinway 318 on his album "Conversations With Myself."

>From "How My Heart Sings," a recent biography of Bill Evans by Peter Pettinger:

    "Evans was using Glenn Gould's cherished Steinway,
     an instrument upon which much attention had been
     lavished by its makers, and the one that Gould used
     exclusively after 1960. In Evans's hands (as in Gould's)
     the instrument exuded quality, sounding rich and
     alive in spite of poor tuning. Its characteristics were
     enhanced by the warm acoustics of Webster Hall,
     the sound reflecting from the wooden surfaces
     and revolving chandelier of theold dance venue.
     Gould -- himself a connoisseur of Evans's work --
     finished recording the Bach D major Partita on it
     soon after Bill's recording, but at the old CBS 30th
     Street Studio, a mile or so uptown."

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