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00:00 Summertime - 11:08 The Meaning of the blues - 20:52 Parabola - 29:10 Amadama - 46:32 Ictus - 53:16 Blues in C suite: Concorde-Cheryl-Bongo Beep (not A...
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,...
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...
Gil Evans (Ian Ernest Gilmore Green) was born May 13, 1912, in Toronto, Canada, to Margaret Julia McConnachy; his father died before he was born. As a child, Evans and his mother moved frequently throughout the Pacific Northwest, where his mother got work as a cook in logging and mining camps in British Columbia, then in the U.S. in Idaho ...
Explore the life and music of Gil Evans, a legendary jazz composer, arranger and bandleader, who collaborated with Miles Davis and others.
The Gil Evans Orchestra played at the Apollo Theater in 1959 on a bill with Dinah Washington and Thelonious Monks's Quartet. In 1960, the band played a for six weeks at the Jazz Gallery, opposite John Coltrane’s quartet. Evans’s 1960 Impulse album Out of the Cool features the music that band performed nightly; much of this music is a ...
Jul 10, 2014 · Gil Evans, Essential Jazz Arranger, At 100 May 13, 2012 • Famous for his collaborations with Miles Davis, Evans brought orchestral colors and textures to jazz, and was a pioneer of the "cool" sound.
