From the first time I heard “Nardis,” the Miles Davis song made famous by pianist Bill Evans I fixated on it and the odd sound of the Phyrgian musical mode. There’s something about Nardis that is sort of maudlin and unfolding and I listen to it a lot when I’m trying to figure something out. This is a great piece of writing about the history of the song and about Evans.
It was supposed to be the best day of Richard “Blue” Mitchell’s life, but June 30, 1958, turned out to be one of the worst. […] Link
