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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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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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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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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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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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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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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