LANDSCAPE - The Meaning of being a Nardis - Big Band SCORE

"The Meaning of Being a Nardis"

for Piano and Big band

By

Antonio Ballestin

Based on the tune "Nardis" By Miles Davis/Bill Evans

"The Meaning of being a Nardis"for Big Band and Piano soloist

by Antonio Ballestin

Nobody knows for sure the meaning of the word "Nardis", but there are few theories. The most extended was told by Andy Farber to Joe Gianono (who was writing a chart about it). "Miles Davis and bill Evans were doing a gig together somewere and someone came up to Bill and Miles and asked them to play some silly tune, "I don't play crap like that", said Bill, "I'm an artist" (prononunced "a Nardis"

with Bill's New Jersey accent). ("Jazz Anecdotes")

Another speculation is related to Ben Sidran, whose name is the same as Nardis spelled backwards (like Davis tune called "Airegin", from "Nigeria"). But the true is that Ben Sidran (born 1943) were 15 years old, too young to be related to Miles or Bill.

Allthough Nardis was attributed to miles Davis, he never recorded it. In the other hand, Bill Evans did it several times, making it famous. Others said that Miles composed it being helped out by Bill with the harmony. Bill did indeed announce it in concert as "a Miles Davis piece" ("Jazz at the Maintenance Shop" DVD from Iowa, 1979). In the album "Portrait of Cannonball".... the liner notes say that Miles

wrote Nardis especially for that album!

The following piece becomes a short piano-concerto where the soloist is continuously fighting against the Big Band, searching for the meaning of the word "Nardis" but also the real essence of the melody, that goes into flamenco buleria in the second part of the piece. Somehow the piano represents Bill Evans defending his own authority, but musically it could remind us Gil Evan`s arrangement called "The meaning of the blues". I has been written to be performed by the "Codarts Big Band", with Marcial García on Drums, Miguel H.

Garcìa on Cajòn Flamenco, Inma Galiot on Double Bass, and Kaan Biyicolou as piano soloist.

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Antonio Ballestin"The Meaning of being a "Nardis"

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