Gil Evans
USA
Born: 13 May 1912
Died: 20 March 1988
Years Active: 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90
Genres: Jazz
Styles: Cool, Fusion, Post-Bop, Hard Bop, Modal Music, Modern Big Band, Big Band, Big Band/Swing, Progressive Jazz, Experimental Big Band, Avant-Garde Jazz, Modern Creative
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One of the most significant arrangers in jazz history, Gil Evans' three album-length collaborations with Miles Davis (Miles Ahead, Porgy and Bess, and Sketches of Spain) are all considered classics. Evans had a lengthy and wide-ranging career that sometimes ran parallel to the trumpeter. Like Davis, Gil became involved in utilizing electronics in the '70s and preferred not to look back and re-create the past. He led his own band in California (1933-1938) which eventually became the backup group for Skinnay Ennis; Evans stayed on for a time as a...
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