The Big Love: Life & Death with Bill Evans

Here is the story of Bill Evans that no one knows. Set in New York City and Edmonton, Alberta, The Big Love recounts the final years of Bill Evans’ life through the eyes of his 22 year old lover and Muse, Laurie Verchomin. With raw honesty, this memoir describes not only the love Bill and Laurie shared, but ultimately the tragic and beautiful death of a Jazz Legend and the coming of age of a young woman.

"Verchomin awakens into love, sex, drugs, spiritual enlightenment, death and jazz, while she records the incendiary ascension of one of the world's most beloved musicians. Her documentation of Evans' creative process is fascinating and illuminating. The Big Love is spare and cleanly written, yet surges with sensuality and life, much as Evans' own music does. The Big Love is an exotic erotic memoir but is so charged with the full range of human experience that it is universal."
- DAVID ROCHE / AUTHOR & INSPIRATIONAL HUMORIST

" Laurie's book has given me insight into Bill's life, and the complex and subtle relationship they enjoyed together... It's very clear from Laurie's poetic description of their life together, that Bill was almost permanently aware of the nearness of death, and the fragility of existence. And while it is also very clear that the suffering he experienced through his drug abuse, through his sublime art, he allowed us to experience this suffering as a victory for beauty, for marvelous sensuality, and the fundamental tragedy of life, without which life would be absurd.
- JOHN MCLAUGHLIN / MUSICIAN & COMPOSER

A cult classic which has been translated and published in French, Italian, Ukrainian and Japanese
Available worldwide on Amazon. For more information about Bill Evans please visit the website: www.billevanslegacy.com