with Miles Davis. Gil Evans was born in Toronto, Canada, on May 13, 1912, to Margaret Julia McConnachy. Little is known about Evans' biological father...
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of Gil Evans is an album by pianist, conductor, arranger and composer Gil Evans originally released on the Verve label in 1964. It features Evans' big...
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period, he alternated between orchestral jazz collaborations with arranger Gil Evans, such as the Spanish music-influenced Sketches of Spain (1960), and band...
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Lee Konitz, Bill Barber, Gerry Mulligan, and Gil Evans, Miles Davis calling the Konitz-Barber-Mulligan-Evans incarnation "the greatest band", second only...
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album by jazz composer, arranger, conductor and pianist Gil Evans, recorded in 1973 by Evans with an orchestra featuring Ted Dunbar, Howard Johnson, David...
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Davis, and his fourth album collaboration with arranger and conductor Gil Evans, released in 1963 on Columbia Records, catalogue CL 2106 and CS 8906 in...
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Sketches of Spain (category Albums arranged by Gil Evans)
shop in New York City. The album pairs Davis with arranger and composer Gil Evans, with whom he had collaborated on several other projects, on a program...
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contract with CBS/Sony, and recorded Satin Doll with support of Gil Evans during Evans' first visitation to Japan. Later she recorded many albums in collaboration...
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piece was written by Gil Evans for Bill Evans (no relation) and Paul Chambers on Kind of Blue. An orchestrated version by Gil Evans of this introduction...
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concurrently released to promote the film, and the musical score was composed by Gil Evans. David Bowie's title track, Ray Davies' "Quiet Life", and the Style Council's...
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Gil Evans & Ten (also released as Big Stuff and Gil Evans + Ten) is the first album by pianist, conductor, arranger and composer Gil Evans as a leader...
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The Gil Evans Orchestra Plays the Music of Jimi Hendrix is an album of Jimi Hendrix's compositions by jazz composer, conductor and pianist Gil Evans. The...
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was Judy Collins's touring drummer from 1969 to 1973 and worked with Gil Evans from 1969 to 1982. In the 1970s, she worked with Steve Kuhn, Art Farmer...
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Miles Davis & Gil Evans: The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings is a box set of music by jazz musicians Miles Davis and Gil Evans originally released...
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Miles Ahead (album) (category Albums conducted by Gil Evans)
by Columbia Records. It was Davis' first collaboration with arranger Gil Evans following the Birth of the Cool sessions. Along with their subsequent...
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George Adams (musician) (section Gil Evans (1975–78))
and bass clarinet. He is best known for his work with Charles Mingus, Gil Evans, Roy Haynes and in the quartet he co-led with pianist Don Pullen, featuring...
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Into the Hot is an album released under the auspices of Gil Evans featuring a large ensemble under the direction of John Carisi and the Cecil Taylor Unit...
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and trumpeter known for his membership in the Pat Metheny Group and the Gil Evans Orchestra. He is co-founder of the jazz fusion band, Elements. Mark McDanel...
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17, 2020. "Bud and Bird: Gil Evans & the Monday Night Orchestra / Gil Evans". AllMusic. Retrieved February 9, 2024. "Gil Evans: 75th Birthday Concert"...
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Out of the Cool (category Gil Evans albums)
Out of the Cool is a jazz album by The Gil Evans Orchestra, recorded in 1960 and released on the Impulse! label the following year. The album was one...
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the instrument. He made notable contributions to albums by Ahmad Jamal, Gil Evans, and Sonny Criss, and pioneered a technique of rhythmic bongo-style guitar...
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1980 album Full Moon "El Toreador", a song by Gil Evans on his 1964 album The Individualism of Gil Evans SS Toreador (1909), a German cargo ship in service...
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Almeida Guitar from Ipanema Woody Herman – Woody Herman '64 Gil Evans – The Individualism of Gil Evans Rod Levitt – The Dynamic Sound Patterns of the Rod Levitt...
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Porgy and Bess (Miles Davis album) (category Albums arranged by Gil Evans)
Columbia Records. The album features arrangements by Davis and collaborator Gil Evans from George Gershwin's 1935 opera of the same name. The album was recorded...
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a tribute to Gil Evans who had died a few years before. Jones developed the idea of using two orchestras and conducted both the Gil Evans Orchestra and...
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mistake." Although Davis claimed being the author, noted composer, arranger Gil Evans in a radio interview on WKCR FM, NYC stated publicly that the true author...
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with a nonet consisting of other noted jazz musicians including arranger Gil Evans, Gerry Mulligan, Lee Konitz, John Lewis, Max Roach and Kenny Clarke. The...
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1963–64 McCoy Tyner Today and Tomorrow Impulse! 1964 1963–64 Gil Evans The Individualism of Gil Evans Verve 1964 1964 John Coltrane Crescent Impulse! 1964 1964...
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Mike Gibbs + Twelve play Gil Evans is an album by composer Mike Gibbs. It was released on 12 August 2013 on Whirlwind Recordings. "Bilbao Song" (Kurt...
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Kikuchi with Gil Evans is a studio album led by jazz pianist and composer Masabumi Kikuchi with support of Gil Evans, recorded during Gil's first visitation...
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