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Evans, Gil
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Evans, Gil (b. Ian Green) (1912–87) jazz musician; born in Toronto, Canada. He was a pianist and arranger whose landmark orchestrations for Miles Davis included "The Birth of the Cool," "Porgy and Bess," and "Sketches of Spain."


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What it doesn't say (Bley being a great deflector of compliments), is that she's widely accepted as being in the same league for large-scale jazz composition as legends like Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Gil Evans and George Russell - artists who could intuitively cross composition and improvisation, pop music and art music, and compose with particular favourite improvisers in mind.
A guest on records by Sting, George Michael and Carmel, Guy has also featured in the bands of jazz greats Quincy Jones, Gil Evans and Clark Terry.
Shorter created a series of works that completely integrated his quartet with the orchestra, works that reminded this listener at least of trumpeter Miles Davis's collaboration with composer/ orchestrator Gil Evans in the 1950s (Shorter would play with Davis later in his career).
 
 
 
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