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Gil Evans
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist
Gil Evans was born in Toronto and taught himself to arrange by listening to records by Duke Ellington. In the 1940s he wrote for Claude Thornhill's orchestra, with horns and tuba and long, floating chords. His small apartment in New York became a meeting place for young musicians, and there the plan for the nonet of Birth of the Cool took shape. With Miles Davis he made, among other things, three albums for large orchestra: Miles Ahead (1957), Porgy and Bess (1958) and Sketches of Spain (1960). Evans wrote tone colours with flutes, horns and tubas that recall classical music rather than a big band. Later his orchestra also played music by Jimi Hendrix.
Listening
Boplicity · Miles Davis, 1949
Summertime · Miles Davis, 1958
La Nevada · Gil Evans, 1960
Willow Tree · Gil Evans, 1958Apple Music ↗
Discography
Studio albums
- 1957Gil Evans & Ten
- 1959Great Jazz Standards
- 1964The Individualism of Gil Evans
- 1972Masabumi Kikuchi + Gil Evans
- 1973Svengali
- 1976There Comes a Time
- 1980Heroes
- 1983Misa Espiritual - Airto's Brazilian Mass
- 1988Collaboration
- 1988Paris Blues
- 1988The Gil Evans Orchestra Plays the Music of Jimi Hendrix
- 1989Golden Hair
- 1989Where Flamingos Fly
- 1990Childscape
- 1993Rhythm-A-Ning
- 1994The Mother of the Book
Other work
- 1949Birth of the Cool · arrangementen
- 1957Miles Ahead
- 1958Porgy and Bess
- 1960Sketches of Spain
- 1961Out of the Cool
In School of Rock
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- Jazz MapNL Map
- Mixtape 5: Jazz FestivalNL Reader
- After Hours: Session 2NL Reader
Mentioned in other articles
- Cool Jazz and modal jazz Genre
In 1949 and 1950 Miles Davis recorded with a nonet the sessions that were later called Birth of the Cool, with French horn and tuba alongside the usual horns and arrangements by, among others, Gil Evans.