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Ian Ernest Gilmore Evans ( né Green; May 13, 1912 – March 20, 1988) [1] was a Canadian–American jazz pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader. He is widely recognized as one of the greatest orchestrators in jazz, playing an important role in the development of cool jazz, modal jazz, free jazz, and jazz fusion.
May 13, 2024 · Gil Evans was one of jazz’s most important arrangers, and it was apparent from early on that Evans would pursue a career in music. Born on May 13, 1912, as a teenager, Evans was preoccupied...
May 9, 2024 · Gil Evans (born May 13, 1912, Toronto, Ont., Can.—died March 20, 1988, Cuernavaca , Mex.) was a Canadian-born composer and arranger who was one of the greatest orchestrators in jazz history. Evans had a long and productive career but remains best known for his celebrated collaborations with trumpeter Miles Davis .
Feb 1, 2024 · The composer and arranger Gil Evans teamed with legendary trumpeter Miles Davis to make some of the greatest music of the 20th century; records like Birth of the Cool, Porgy and Bess, and...
May 13, 2012 · Gil Evans, one of the most important jazz arrangers of the 20th century, was born 100 years ago today. Evans is best known for music he wrote between 1957 and 1963 for his 19-piece orchestra,...
Jazz innovator, an arranger and composer of stunning originality, best known for his work with Miles Davis. Read Full Biography. STREAM OR BUY: Active. 1930s - 1980s. Born. May 13, 1912 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Died. March 20, 1988 in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.
Evans and Davis set up a trade that led to a lifelong friendship. Evans wanted Davis’s permission to arrange Davis’s composition “Donna Lee” for the Thornhill band; Davis wanted to look over Gil’s scores, which were considered as “the first fresh big-band inventions to come along since the great Ellington concertos of 1939-42.”
