#heroin-addiction

#heroin-addiction

"Sometimes an intermission is part of the music," American jazz pianist Bill Evans is told in Everybody Digs Bill Evans. The first fiction feature from music video and documentary filmmaker Grant Gee is an intense portrait of an interval in Evans's life where he stopped playing, deep in grief and heroin addiction after the death of his bandmate in a car crash.

What the 62-year-old does detail well in this memoir are his harrowing struggles with heroin and the loneliness he long battled because of his sexuality. Bottum shares some genuinely perturbing stories of sexual encounters he experienced with adult men while underage, growing up in Southern California. His journey to coming out in the pages of The Advocate is a fraught and sometimes frightening one. That interview he gave to Lance Loud, he reveals, was sold to the British rock press without his consent.