Gil Evans
Gil Evans Gil Evans i 1978
Født 13. maj 1912 Toronto , Ontario , Canada Død 20. marts 1988 (75 år), 20. maj 1988 (76 år) Cuernavaca , Morelos , Mexico Dødsmåde Naturlige årsager Dødsårsag Lungebetændelse Statsborger Canada Bopæl New York City , Westbeth Artists Community Sprog Engelsk Genre Jazz fusion , modal improvisation , free jazz med flere Beskæftigelse Dirigent , jazzmusiker, arrangør, komponist , pianist , musiker , bandleader Pladeselskab Verve Records , Pacific Jazz Records, Impulse!,Prestige Records ,Columbia Records , EmArcy, ACT, Enja Records, Antilles El-klaver , jazzpiano, klaver Gil Evans' hjemmeside Information med symbolet hentes fra Wikidata .
Ian Ernest Gilmore Green (født 13. maj 1912 i Canada , død 20. marts 1988 i Mexico ), bedst kendt som Gil Evans , var en canadisk jazzmusiker og pioner indenfor bigbandmusik i USA som arrangør , komponist , orkesterleder og pianist .
Hans over 50 år lange banebrydende virksomhed som arrangør, komponist og orkesterleder stiller ham kvalitetsmæssigt på højde med Duke Ellington , hvis betydning Evans også var omhyggelig med at fremhæve.
Gennem de mange år han var på banen, har han arrangeret musik af utallige komponister, spillet sammen med utallige af jazzens store navne, og optrådt på mange jazzfestivaler rundt om i Europa .
Diskografi
Som leder
1957 Gil Evans & Ten (Prestige, 1958)
1958 New Bottle Old Wine (World Pacific, 1958)
1958 Great Jazz Standards (World Pacific, 1959)
1960 Out of the Cool (Impulse!, 1961)
Into the Hot (Impulse!, 1962)
The Individualism of Gil Evans (Verve, 1964) - Reissued in 1988 on extended CD
Gil Evans (Ampex, 1970) – also released as Blues in Orbit (Enja, 1980)
Svengali (Atlantic, 1973)
The Gil Evans Orchestra Plays the Music of Jimi Hendrix (RCA Victor, 1974)
Previously Unreleased Recordings (Verve, 1974) - recorded in 1964
Montreux Jazz Festival '74 (Philips, 1975)
There Comes a Time (RCA, 1976) – recorded in 1975
Little Wing Live in Germany (Circle, 1978)
Parabola (Horo, 1979) – recorded in 1978
Gil Evans Live at the Royal Festival Hall London 1978 (RCA Victor, 1979)
Live at the Public Theater (New York 1980) Vol.1 (Trio, 1980), Vol.2 (Trio, 1981)
The Rest of Gil Evans Live at The Royal Festival Hall London 1978 (Mole Jazz, 1981)
Where Flamingos Fly (Artists House, 1981) – recorded in 1971
Priestess (Antilles, 1983) – recorded in 1977
The British Orchestra (Mole Jazz, 1983)
Live at Sweet Basil (Electric Bird, 1985)
Live at Sweet Basil Vol. 2 (Electric Bird, 1986)
Absolute Beginners: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (EMI, 1986)
Bud and Bird (Electric Bird, 1987)
Posthume udgivelse
Farewell (Electric Bird, 1988) – indspillet i 1986
Paris Blues with Steve Lacy (Owl, 1988) – indspillet i 1987
Rhythm A Ning with Laurent Cugny (EmArcy, 1988) – indspillet i 1987
Golden Hair with Laurent Cugny (EmArcy, 1989) – indspillet i 1987
Lunar Eclypse (New Tone Records, 1992) – indspillet i 1981
The Honey Man (New Tone Records, 1995) – indspillet i 1986
75th Birthday Concert (BBC Legends , 2001) – indspillet i 1987
Tokyo Concert 1976 (Studio Songs, 2010) – indspillet i 1976
Med andre
Glen Hall & Gil Evans, The Mother of the Book (InRespect, 1994) -indspillet i 1985
Kimiko Kasai & Gil Evans, Satin Doll (CBS/Sony, 1972)
Masabumi Kikuchi , Masabumi Kikuchi with Gil Evans (Philips , 1972)
Lee Konitz & Gil Evans, Heroes (Verve, 1991)
Lee Konitz & Gil Evans, Anti-Heroes (Verve, 1991)
Orchestre National de Jazz & Antoine Herve , O.N.J. 87 (Label Bleu, 1988)
Jaco Pastorius , Gil Evans & Jaco Pastorius – Live Under The Sky Tokyo '84 (Hi Hat, 2016)
Lucy Reed , This Is Lucy Reed (Fantasy, 1957)
Ray Russell , Why Not Now (Theta, 1988)
Ray Russell, A Table Near the Band (Last Chance Music, 1990)
Helen Merrill & Gil Evans, Collaboration (EmArcy, 1988) – indspillet i 1987
James Senese , Alhambra (EMI, 1988)
Lew Soloff , Hanalei Bay (Bellaphon, 1985)
Sting , ...Nothing Like the Sun (A&M, 1987)
Sting , Last Session - Live At Perugia Jazz Festival 11 July 1987 (Jazz Door, 1992)
Ornella Vanoni , Ornella &... Duetti, Trii, Quartetti (CGD, 1986)
Som arrangør
Efter indspilningstidspunkt
1947-49: Claude Thornhill Orchestra, The Real Birth of the Cool: Studio Recordings (CBS/Sony , 1971)
1949-50: Miles Davis , Birth of the Cool (Capitol , 1957)
1950-52: Charlie Parker , Big Band (Clef , 1954)
1955: Hal McKusick , The Jazz Workshop (RCA Victor , 1956)
1956: Johnny Mathis , Johnny Mathis (Columbia , 1956)
1956: Marcy Lutes, Debut (Decca , 1956)
1957: Lucy Reed , This Is Lucy Reed (Fantasy , 1957)
1956-57: Helen Merrill , Dream of You (EmArcy , 1957)
1957: Miles Davis, Miles Ahead (Columbia, 1957)
1958?: Don Elliott Octet, Jamaica Jazz (ABC-Paramount, 1958)
1958: Miles Davis, Porgy and Bess (Columbia, 1959)
1959-60: Miles Davis, Sketches of Spain (Columbia, 1960) – 3rd Annual Grammy Awards : Best Jazz Composition of More Than Five Minutes Duration
1961: Miles Davis, Miles Davis at Carnegie Hall (Columbia, 1962)
1962-63: Miles Davis, Quiet Nights (Columbia, 1963)
1964-65: Kenny Burrell , Guitar Forms (Verve , 1965)
1965-66: Astrud Gilberto , Look to the Rainbow (Verve, 1966)
1968: Miles Davis, Filles de Kilimanjaro (Columbia, 1968) – without credits:273
1982-83: Miles Davis, Star People (Columbia, 1983)
1983: Miles Davis, Decoy (Columbia, 1984) – kun "That's Right"