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Evans, Gil
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Evans, Gil (1912–1987)

Canadian-born jazz musician. He was a pianist and arranger whose landmark orchestrations for Miles Davis include ‘The Birth of the Cool’, ‘Porgy and Bess’, and ‘Sketches of Spain’.

He was born in Toronto.



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Bitter Happiness," featuring former Gil Evans trumpeter Leif Arntzen, is a jazzy elegy to our ravaged environment:
His approach is timeless, whether in the context of Jimmy Smith's organ trio of the '50s, collaborations with Coleman Hawkins and Gil Evans in the '60s or the contemporary jam scene spearheaded by Medeski Martin & Wood.
The music is a 1958 recording that Gil Evans arranged and conducted for Miles Davis, whose blues trumpet replaces the opera's vocal line.
 
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