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June 1961, NYC: legendary jazz pianist Bill Evans has found his musical voice and created the perfect trio, including bass player Scott LaFaro, said to be his soulmate through music. A residency at New York’s Village Vanguard culminates in the live taping of two of the greatest jazz records of all time in one night. Ten days later, LaFaro dies in a car crash. Numb with grief, Evans stops playing.
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00:03Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce Mr. Bill Evans.
00:10To play, you gotta be present.
00:19That's gone now.
00:24You need to find a replacement.
00:26That's not possible.
00:30To the great Bill Evans.
00:33Isn't that what all the papers say?
00:37Will you be okay, Bill?
00:43How can you be a success looking so ragged?
00:50Years of squeezing myself into a life that was so small.
00:59I got an album coming up. I gotta start working again.
01:03I don't think you're ready for that.
01:07Kept thinking that I'd change. That the world would change.
01:12Sometimes an intermission is part of the music.
01:16When we get home, can you play my song?
01:21Your musical talent was like magic.
01:26To play is a tightrope walk.
01:30It takes every part of your person.
01:34Pushing the world away so you can think with your hands.
01:37people are onálف you...
01:44That the real people will not show you.

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