Birth Chart
Bill Evans
William John Evans
Sun Leo
Moon Capricorn
Ascendant Cancer
Influences in signs
↣ Sun in Leo - 22°52' - in house 3
↣ Moon in Capricorn - 06°43' - in house 7
↣ Mercury in Virgo - 08°14' - in house 4
↣ Venus in Cancer - 12°25' - in house 1
↣ Mars in Virgo - 26°24' - in house 4
↣ Jupiter in Gemini - 12°33' - in house 12
↣ Saturn in Sagittarius - 24°01' - in house 7 - retrograde
↣ Uranus in Aries - 11°02' - in house 11 - retrograde
↣ Neptune in Virgo - 00°48' - in house 4
↣ Pluto in Cancer - 18°49' - in house 2
↣ North Node in Taurus - 16°22' - in house 12 - retrograde
↣ Ascendant in Cancer - 00°47' - in house 1
↣ Midheaven in Pisces - 07°17' - in house 10
↣ Equatorial Ascendant in Gemini - 10°35'
Influences in houses
↣ Sun in house 3
↣ Moon in house 7
↣ Mercury in house 4
↣ Venus in house 1
↣ Mars in house 4
↣ Jupiter in house 12
↣ Saturn in house 7
↣ Uranus in house 11
↣ Neptune in house 4
↣ Pluto in house 2
↣ North Node in house 12
↣ Ascendant in house 1
↣ Midheaven in house 10
Aspects
↣ Sun and Saturn trine (1°09' applying)
↣ Sun and Neptune conjunction (7°56' applying)
↣ Moon and Mercury trine (1°31' applying)
↣ Moon and Venus opposition (5°42' applying)
↣ Moon and Uranus square (4°19' applying)
↣ Moon and Neptune trine (5°54' separating)
↣ Moon and Ascendant opposition (5°56' applying)
↣ Moon and Midheaven sextile (0°35' separating)
↣ Mercury and Venus sextile (4°11' applying)
↣ Mercury and Jupiter square (4°19' applying)
↣ Mercury and Neptune conjunction (7°26' separating)
↣ Mercury and Equatorial Ascendant square (2°22' separating)
↣ Mercury and Midheaven opposition (0°57' applying) antiparallel
↣ Venus and Jupiter parallel
↣ Venus and Saturn antiparallel
↣ Venus and Uranus square (1°23' separating)
↣ Venus and Pluto conjunction (6°25' applying) parallel
↣ Venus and North Node sextile (3°58' applying)
↣ Venus and Midheaven trine (5°07' applying)
↣ Mars and Saturn square (2°22' separating)
↣ Mars and Ascendant square (4°23' separating)
↣ Jupiter and Saturn antiparallel
↣ Jupiter and Uranus sextile (1°31' separating)
↣ Jupiter and Pluto parallel
↣ Jupiter and Equatorial Ascendant conjunction (1°57' applying)
↣ Jupiter and Midheaven square (5°16' applying)
↣ Saturn and Pluto antiparallel
↣ Saturn and Ascendant opposition (6°45' separating)
↣ Uranus and Equatorial Ascendant sextile (0°26' applying)
↣ Neptune and Ascendant sextile (0°02' applying)
↣ Neptune and Midheaven opposition (6°29' separating)
↣ Pluto and North Node sextile (2°27' separating)
Birth data
- Original name
- William John Evans
- Chart date
- 16/08/1929
- Chart time
- 02:57
- Date and time quality
- AA Birth record cited what does this mean?
- Data origin
- Astro-Databank
- Location
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Plainfield (NJ), USA - Latitude and longitude
- 40°38' North · 74°24' West
- Time zone
- 04:00 West
The data used to calculate the charts comes from public sources, as do the descriptive texts. We use sources such as Wikipedia.
About
Bill Evans was an American pianist and composer whose work became a central reference for jazz piano after the 1950s. Trained in piano with a solid classical foundation, he became known for adopting harmonies of an impressionistic character and for a melodic, syncopated, and polyrhythmic phrasing that influenced generations of musicians, including Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, and Keith Jarrett.
In the late 1950s he joined Miles Davis’s historic sextet and contributed to Kind of Blue (1959), an album of enormous commercial and artistic impact. At the same time he led highly regarded trios—especially the group with Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian—whose live and studio recordings, such as Sunday at the Village Vanguard and Portrait in Jazz, are considered landmarks of the genre.
His discography includes significant collaborations (Jim Hall, Claus Ogerman, Tony Bennett) and solo and trio albums that established a distinctive harmonic language often associated with influences like Debussy and Ravel. Despite health problems related to drug use that shortened his career, Evans left a lasting legacy as a technical and aesthetic model for jazz pianists.
