Gil Evans
Genre:
Jazz
Meta styles:
Big Band/Swing, Cool, Fusion, Hard Bop
Styles:
Cool, Experimental Big Band, Fusion, Modern Big Band, Post-Bop, Progressive Jazz

Gil Evans (13 May 1912 ? 20 March 1988) was a jazz musician and an important innovator of big band jazz in the United States as an arranger, composer, band leader, and pianist. He had a seminal role in the development of cool jazz, modal jazz, free jazz and jazz-rock. Gil Evans was born in Toronto, Canada, as Ian Ernest Gilmore Green and early took the family name Evans from his stepfather. The family soon moved to California, where he spent the first decades of his life. From 1946 onwards he lived and worked in New York City.

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Tokyo Concert (Japanese Edition)

Tokyo Concert (Japanese Edition)

1
Year:
2010
Tracks:
3
Bitrate:
320 kbps
Columbia Jazz Profiles

Columbia Jazz Profiles

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Year:
2008
Tracks:
13
Bitrate:
320 kbps
The Honey Man

The Honey Man

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Year:
1995
Tracks:
6
Bitrate:
320 kbps
Live At Sweet Basil Vol. II

Live At Sweet Basil Vol. II

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Year:
1992
Tracks:
6
Bitrate:
248 kbps
Live At Sweet Basil

Live At Sweet Basil

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Year:
1992
Tracks:
6
Bitrate:
257 kbps
Into The Hot

Into The Hot

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Year:
1988
Tracks:
6
Bitrate:
320 kbps
Paris Blues (With Steve Lacy)

Paris Blues (With Steve Lacy)

Year:
1987
Tracks:
7
Bitrate:
320 kbps
Bud And Bird

Bud And Bird

Year:
1987
Tracks:
5
Bitrate:
320 kbps
Bud & Bird

Bud & Bird

1
Year:
1987
Tracks:
5
Bitrate:
320 kbps
The British Orchestra (Vinyl)

The British Orchestra (Vinyl)

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Year:
1983
Tracks:
4
Bitrate:
320 kbps
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