with Miles Davis. Gil Evans was born in Toronto, Canada, on May 13, 1912, to Margaret Julia McConnachy. Little is known about Evans's biological father...
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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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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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Siegelstein, Gerry Mulligan, and Gil Evans, Miles Davis calling the Konitz-Barber-Collins-Shulman-Siegelstein-Mulligan-Evans incarnation "the greatest band"...
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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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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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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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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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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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title was a reference to the musical partnership between Miles Davis and Gil Evans, a cited influence of Michael Head's music. All songs written by Mick...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Great Jazz Standards (category Gil Evans albums)
album by jazz composer, arranger, conductor and pianist Gil Evans recorded in 1959 by Evans with an orchestra featuring Johnny Coles, Steve Lacy, Curtis...
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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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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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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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Miles Davis at Carnegie Hall (category Albums conducted by Gil Evans)
performance features Davis with his regular quintet and accompanied by Gil Evans and his 21-piece orchestra. The orchestra and quintet together perform...
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and went on tour with Rahsaan Roland Kirk. He became a member of the Gil Evans orchestra, an association that lasted through the 1980s, and worked with...
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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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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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McCoy Tyner Today and Tomorrow Impulse! 1964 1963, 1964 Gil Evans The Individualism of Gil Evans Verve 1964 1963, 1964 Solomon Ilori African High Life Blue...
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Look to the Rainbow (Astrud Gilberto album) (category Albums arranged by Gil Evans)
Look to the Rainbow is a 1966 album by Astrud Gilberto, arranged by Gil Evans and Al Cohn. Side One "Berimbau" (Ray Gilbert, Baden Powell, Vinicius De...
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