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By his own admission, as a teenager "I couldn't play My Country Tis Of Thee without the notes".

By his own admission, as a teenager "I couldn't play My Country Tis Of Thee without the notes".

However, he eventually learnt to improvise, and was not content to stop after he had achieved a basic level of competence - drawing inspiration from European composers such as [[Chopin]] and [[Debussy]], as well as from contemporary jazz pianists such as [[Horace Silver]] and [[Nat King Cole]], he steadily established a style that was sufficiently unique and beautiful to attract the attention of [[Miles Davis]].

However, he eventually learnt to improvise, and was not content to stop after he had achieved a basic level of competence - drawing inspiration from European composers such as [[Chopin]] and [[Debussy]], as well as from contemporary jazz pianists such as [[Horace Silver]] and [[Nat King Cole]], he steadily established a style that was sufficiently distinctive and beautiful to attract the attention of [[Miles Davis]].

A brief period with the Davis band culminated with the recording of [[Kind of Blue]], a landmark jazz album that arguably could never have been what it was without Evans' diffident romanticism.

A brief period with the Davis band culminated with the recording of [[Kind of Blue]], a landmark jazz album that arguably could never have been what it was without Evans' diffident romanticism.