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Gil Evans

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Ian Ernest Gilmore "Gil" Evans (born Green; May 13, 1912 – March 20, 1988) was a Canadian jazz pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader. [1]

167 relations: Absolute Beginners (film), Ad libitum, Alan Rubin, All Media Network, AllMusic, Alto flute, Anti-Heroes (Lee Konitz and Gil Evans album), Arrangement, Astrud Gilberto, Bandleader, Bass flute, Bebop, Ben Tucker, Big band, Big Band (Charlie Parker album), Bill Barber (musician), Bill Evans (saxophonist), Billy Harper, Birth of the Cool, Blues in Orbit (Gil Evans album), Bud and Bird, Cannonball Adderley, Capitol Records, Charlie Parker, Chicago Review Press, Circle Records (Germany), Claude Thornhill, Colin MacInnes, Collaboration (Helen Merrill and Gil Evans album), Columbia Records, Cool jazz, Count Basie, Cuernavaca, David Bowie, David Sanborn, Decoy (album), Don Elliott, Don Preston, Double reed, DownBeat, Dream of You (Helen Merrill album), Edward Tudor-Pole, Farewell (Gil Evans album), Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, Filles de Kilimanjaro, Free jazz, George Adams (musician), George Avakian, George Gershwin, Gerry Mulligan, ..., Gil Evans & Ten, Gil Evans Live at the Royal Festival Hall London 1978, Gil Goldstein, Golden Hair (album), Great Jazz Standards, Greenwich Village, Guitar Forms, Hal McKusick, Hannibal Lokumbe, Harp, Harry Lookofsky, Helen Merrill, Heroes (Gil Evans and Lee Konitz album), Highline Ballroom, Hiram Bullock, Horn in jazz, Horst Liepolt, Howard Johnson (jazz musician), Impulse! Records, Into the Hot (Gil Evans album), Jaco Pastorius, James Buffington, Jazz, Jazz fusion, Jerry Dammers, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Cleveland, Jimmy Knepper, Joaquín Rodrigo, John Abercrombie (guitarist), John Carisi, John Graas, Johnny Coles, Johnny Mathis, Johnny Mathis (album), Julius Watkins, Kenny Burrell, Kimiko Kasai, Kurt Weill, Laurent Cugny, Lee Konitz, Lew Soloff, List of jazz arrangers, Little Wing, Live at Sweet Basil (Gil Evans album), Live at Sweet Basil Vol. 2, Live at the Public Theater (New York 1980), Look to the Rainbow (Astrud Gilberto album), Manuel de Falla, Maria Schneider (musician), Martin Scorsese, Miles & Quincy Live at Montreux, Miles Ahead (album), Miles Davis, Milt Hinton, Modal jazz, Montreux, NBC, New Bottle Old Wine, New York (state), New York City, Ontario, Out of the Cool, Pacific Jazz Records, Parabola (album), Paris Blues (album), Patsy Kensit, Paul Chambers, Peritonitis, Pneumonia, Polyrhythm, Porgy and Bess, Porgy and Bess (Miles Davis album), Prestige Records, Priestess (album), Quiet Nights (Miles Davis and Gil Evans album), Quincy Jones, Rhythm A Ning (album), Richard Davis (bassist), Robert Graettinger, Ron Carter, Royal Roost, Ryo Kawasaki, Sade (singer), Saturday Night Live Band, Sketches of Spain, Smiley Culture, Spoonful, Stan Kenton, Star People, Steve Lacy, Sting (musician), Stockton, California, Svengali (album), Sweet Basil Jazz Club, Synthesizer, Tenor violin, Teo Macero, The Color of Money, The Gil Evans Orchestra Plays the Music of Jimi Hendrix, The Individualism of Gil Evans, The Mothers of Invention, The New York Times, The Police, The Style Council, There Comes a Time (album), Third stream, Tom Malone (musician), Toronto, Tuba, Verve Records, Wallace Roney, Westbeth Artists Community, Where Flamingos Fly, Willie Dixon, 1912 in jazz, 1988 in jazz. Expand index (117 more) »

Absolute Beginners (film)

Absolute Beginners is a 1986 British rock musical film adapted from Colin MacInnes' book of the same name about life in late 1950s London.

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Ad libitum

Ad libitum is Latin for "at one's pleasure" or "as you desire"; it is often shortened to "ad lib" (as an adjective or adverb) or "ad-lib" (as a verb or noun).

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Alan Rubin

Alan Rubin (February 11, 1943 – June 8, 2011), also known as Mr.

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All Media Network

All Media Network (formerly All Media Guide (AMG) and AllRovi) is an American company that owns and maintains AllMusic, AllMovie, AllGame (until its closure in 2014), SideReel and Celebified.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Alto flute

The alto flute is a type of Western concert flute, a musical instrument in the woodwind family.

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Anti-Heroes (Lee Konitz and Gil Evans album)

Anti-Heroes is an album by saxophonist Lee Konitz and pianist Gil Evans recorded in New York in 1980 and released on the French Verve label.

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Arrangement

In music, an arrangement is a musical reconceptualization of a previously composed work.

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Astrud Gilberto

Astrud Gilberto (born March 29, 1940) is a Brazilian samba and bossa nova singer.

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Bandleader

A bandleader is the leader of a music group such as a rock or pop group or jazz quartet.

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Bass flute

The bass flute is the tenor member of the flute family.

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Bebop

Bebop or bop is a style of jazz developed in the early to mid-1940s in the United States, which features songs characterized by a fast tempo, complex chord progressions with rapid chord changes and numerous changes of key, instrumental virtuosity, and improvisation based on a combination of harmonic structure, the use of scales and occasional references to the melody.

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Ben Tucker

Benjamin M. "Ben" Tucker (December 13, 1930 – June 4, 2013) was an American jazz bassist who appeared on hundreds of recordings.

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Big band

A big band is a type of musical ensemble that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section.

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Big Band (Charlie Parker album)

Big Band is a 1954 album by Charlie Parker of sides recorded in 1950 and 1952.

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Bill Barber (musician)

John William Barber (May 21, 1920 – June 18, 2007), known as Bill Barber or Billy Barber, is considered by many to be the first person to play tuba in modern jazz.

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Bill Evans (saxophonist)

William D. Evans (born February 8, 1958 in Clarendon Hills, Illinois) is an American jazz saxophonist who was a member of the Miles Davis group in the 1980s and has since led several of his own bands, including Push and Soulgrass.

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Billy Harper

Billy Harper (born January 17, 1943) is an American jazz saxophonist, "one of a generation of Coltrane-influenced tenor saxophonists" with a distinctively stern, hard-as-nails sound on his instrument.

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Birth of the Cool

Birth of the Cool is a compilation album by American jazz musician Miles Davis, released in 1957 on Capitol Records.

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Blues in Orbit (Gil Evans album)

Blues in Orbit is an album by jazz composer, arranger, conductor and pianist Gil Evans, recorded in 1969 and 1971 by Evans with an orchestra featuring Jimmy Cleveland, Howard Johnson, Billy Harper, and Joe Beck.

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Bud and Bird

Bud and Bird is a live album by Gil Evans that won the Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album in 1989.

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Cannonball Adderley

Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley (September 15, 1928 – August 8, 1975) was an American jazz alto saxophonist of the hard bop era of the 1950s and 1960s.

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Capitol Records

Capitol Records, Inc. is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group through its Capitol Music Group imprint.

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Charlie Parker

Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), also known as Yardbird and Bird, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.

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Chicago Review Press

Chicago Review Press, or CRP, is a U.S. book publisher and an independent company founded in 1973.

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Circle Records (Germany)

Circle Records was a West German jazz record label established in 1976.

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Claude Thornhill

Claude Thornhill (August 10, 1908 – July 1, 1965) was an American pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader.

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Colin MacInnes

Colin MacInnes (20 August 1914 – 22 April 1976) was an English novelist and journalist.

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Collaboration (Helen Merrill and Gil Evans album)

Collaboration is a 1987 studio album by Helen Merrill, arranged by Gil Evans.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Cool jazz

Cool jazz is a style of modern jazz music that arose in the United States after World War II.

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Count Basie

William James "Count" Basie (August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer.

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Cuernavaca

Cuernavaca (kʷawˈnaːwak "near the woods") is the capital and largest city of the state of Morelos in Mexico.

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David Bowie

David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer-songwriter and actor.

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David Sanborn

David Sanborn (born July 30, 1945) is an American alto saxophonist.

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Decoy (album)

Decoy is a 1984 album by jazz musician Miles Davis, recorded in 1983.

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Don Elliott

Don Elliott (October 21, 1926 – July 5, 1984) was an American jazz trumpeter, vibraphonist, vocalist, and mellophone player.

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Don Preston

Donald Ward Preston (born September 21, 1932) is an American jazz and rock keyboardist.

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Double reed

A double reed is a type of reed used to produce sound in various wind instruments.

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DownBeat

DownBeat (stylized DOWNBEAT) is an American magazine devoted to "jazz, blues and beyond", the last word indicating its expansion beyond the jazz realm which it covered exclusively in previous years.

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Dream of You (Helen Merrill album)

Dream of You is the third studio album by Helen Merrill which was arranged by Gil Evans.

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Edward Tudor-Pole

Edward Felix Tudor-Pole (also known as Edward Tenpole; born 6 December 1955) is an English musician, television presenter and actor.

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Farewell (Gil Evans album)

Farewell is a live album by jazz composer, arranger, conductor and pianist Gil Evans recorded by King Records (Japan) in New York in 1986 featuring Evans with his Monday Night Orchestra which included Hamiet Bluiett, Bill Evans, and Johnny Coles and originally released in the US on the Evidence label.

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Fender Musical Instruments Corporation

Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC), commonly referred to simply as Fender, is an American manufacturer of stringed instruments and amplifiers.

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Filles de Kilimanjaro

Filles de Kilimanjaro (French for "Girls of Kilimanjaro") is a studio album by American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis.

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Free jazz

Free jazz is an approach to jazz music that was first developed in the 1950s and 60s as musicians attempted to alter, extend, or break down jazz convention, often by discarding fixed chord changes or tempos.

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George Adams (musician)

George Rufus Adams (April 29, 1940 Covington, Georgia – November 14, 1992 New York City) was an American jazz musician who played tenor saxophone, flute and bass clarinet.

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George Avakian

George Mesrop Avakian (Геворк Авакян; March 15, 1919 – November 22, 2017) was an American record producer, artist manager, writer, educator and executive.

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George Gershwin

George Jacob Gershwin (September 26, 1898 July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist.

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Gerry Mulligan

Gerald Joseph Mulligan (April 6, 1927 – January 20, 1996) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger.

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Gil Evans & Ten

Gil Evans & Ten (also released as Big Stuff and Gil Evans + Ten) is the first album by pianist, conductor, arranger and composer Gil Evans as a leader, released on the Prestige label in 1957.

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Gil Evans Live at the Royal Festival Hall London 1978

Gil Evans Live at the Royal Festival Hall London 1978 is a live album by jazz composer, arranger, conductor and pianist Gil Evans recorded in London in 1978 by Evans with an orchestra featuring Arthur Blythe, George Adams, and Lew Soloff and released on RCA label.

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Gil Goldstein

Gil Goldstein (born 1950) is an American jazz pianist and synthesizer player who started on the accordion.

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Golden Hair (album)

Golden Hair is an album by jazz composer, arranger, conductor and keyboardist Gil Evans recorded in 1987 and performed by Evans with Laurent Cugny's Big Band Lumiere.

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Great Jazz Standards

Great Jazz Standards is an album by jazz composer, arranger, conductor and pianist Gil Evans recorded in 1959 by Evans with an orchestra featuring Johnny Coles, Steve Lacy, Curtis Fuller, Jimmy Cleveland, Budd Johnson, Ray Crawford, and Elvin Jones.

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Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village often referred to by locals as simply "the Village", is a neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan, New York City.

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Guitar Forms

Guitar Forms is a 1965 album by Kenny Burrell, featuring arrangements by Gil Evans.

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Hal McKusick

Hal McKusick (1 June 1924 – 11 April 2012) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist and flutist, who worked with Boyd Raeburn from 1944 to 1945 and Claude Thornhill from 1948 to 1949.

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Hannibal Lokumbe

Hannibal Lokumbe (born Marvin Peterson on November 11, 1948 in Smithville, Texas) also known mononymously as Hannibal, is an American jazz trumpeter and composer.

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Harp

The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers.

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Harry Lookofsky

Harry Lookofsky (1 October 1913 – 8 June 1998) was an American jazz violinist.

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Helen Merrill

Helen Merrill (born Jelena Ana Milcetic July 21, 1930) is an American jazz vocalist.

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Heroes (Gil Evans and Lee Konitz album)

Heroes is a live album by pianist Gil Evans and saxophonist Lee Konitz recorded in New York in 1980 and released on the French Verve label.

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Highline Ballroom

The Highline Ballroom is a music venue and nightclub located at 431 West 16th Street in Manhattan in New York City.

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Hiram Bullock

Hiram Law Bullock (September 11, 1955 – July 25, 2008) was an American jazz funk and jazz fusion guitarist.

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Horn in jazz

While the horn (also known as the French Horn) is primarily used in classical music pieces, in the mid-20th century the French horn broke into the jazz world.

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Horst Liepolt

Horst Liepolt (born 27 July 1927) is a jazz producer and artist.

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Howard Johnson (jazz musician)

Howard Lewis Johnson (born August 7, 1941) in Montgomery, Alabama, is an American jazz musician known mainly for his work on tuba and baritone saxophone, although he also plays the bass clarinet, trumpet and other reed instruments.

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Impulse! Records

Impulse! Records is an American jazz record company and label established by Creed Taylor in 1960.

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Into the Hot (Gil Evans album)

Into the Hot is an album released under the auspices of Gil Evans featuring a large ensemble under the direction of John Carisi and the Cecil Taylor Unit.

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Jaco Pastorius

John Francis Anthony "Jaco" Pastorius III (December 1, 1951 – September 21, 1987) was an American jazz bassist who was a member of Weather Report from 1976 to 1981.

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James Buffington

James Lawrence Buffington (born May 15, 1922, Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania; died July 20, 1981, Englewood, New Jersey) was an American jazz, studio, and classical hornist.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jazz fusion

Jazz fusion (also known as fusion) is a musical genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined aspects of jazz harmony and improvisation with styles such as funk, rock, rhythm and blues, and Latin jazz.

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Jerry Dammers

Jeremy David Hounsell "Jerry" Dammers (born 22 May 1955) is a British musician who is a founder, keyboard player and primary songwriter of the Coventry, England based ska revival band The Specials, The Special A.K.A. and The Spatial AKA Orchestra.

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Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Jimmy Cleveland

James Milton Cleveland (May 3, 1926 – August 23, 2008) was an American jazz trombonist born in Wartrace, Tennessee.

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Jimmy Knepper

James Minter Knepper (November 22, 1927 – June 14, 2003) was an American jazz trombonist.

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Joaquín Rodrigo

Joaquín Rodrigo Vidre, 1st Marquis of the Gardens of Aranjuez (22 November 1901 – 6 July 1999), commonly known as Joaquín Rodrigo, was a Spanish composer and a virtuoso pianist.

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John Abercrombie (guitarist)

John Laird Abercrombie (December 16, 1944 – August 22, 2017) was an American jazz guitarist.

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John Carisi

John E. Carisi (February 23, 1922 – October 3, 1992) was an American trumpeter and composer.

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John Graas

John Graas (March 14, 1917– April 13, 1962) was an American jazz French horn player, composer and arranger from the 1940s through 1962.

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Johnny Coles

Johnny Coles (July 3, 1926 in Trenton, New Jersey – December 21, 1997 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was an American jazz trumpeter.

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Johnny Mathis

John Royce Mathis (born September 30, 1935) is an American singer of popular music.

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Johnny Mathis (album)

Johnny Mathis is the debut studio album by vocalist Johnny Mathis that was released by Columbia Records in 1956.

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Julius Watkins

Julius Watkins (October 10, 1921 – April 4, 1977) was an American jazz musician, and one of the first French horn players in jazz.

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Kenny Burrell

Kenneth Earl Burrell (born July 31, 1931) is an American jazz guitarist known for his work on the Blue Note label.

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Kimiko Kasai

Kimiko Kasai (born December 15, 1945 in Kyoto, Japan) is a retired Japanese jazz singer.

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Kurt Weill

Kurt Julian Weill (March 2, 1900April 3, 1950) was a German composer, active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States.

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Laurent Cugny

Laurent Cugny (born 14 April 1955 in La Garenne-Colombes) is a French jazz musician (pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger), jazz critic and musicologist.

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Lee Konitz

Lee Konitz (born October 13, 1927) is an American composer and alto saxophonist.

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Lew Soloff

Lewis Michael Soloff (February 20, 1944 – March 8, 2015) was an American jazz trumpeter, composer and actor.

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List of jazz arrangers

The American Federation of Musicians defines arranging as "the art of preparing and adapting an already written composition for presentation in other than its original form.

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Little Wing

"Little Wing" is a song written by Jimi Hendrix and recorded by the Jimi Hendrix Experience in 1967.

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Live at Sweet Basil (Gil Evans album)

Live Sweet Basil is a live album by jazz composer, arranger, conductor and pianist Gil Evans recorded by King Records (Japan) in New York in 1984 featuring Evans with his Monday Night Orchestra which included George Adams, Howard Johnson, and Lew Soloff and originally released in the US on the Gramavision label.

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Live at Sweet Basil Vol. 2

Live Sweet Basil Vol.

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Live at the Public Theater (New York 1980)

Live at the Public Theatre (New York 1980) is a live album by jazz composer, arranger, conductor and pianist Gil Evans recorded in New York in 1980 by Evans with an orchestra featuring Arthur Blythe, Hamiet Bluiett, and Lew Soloff and originally released on the Japanese Trio label in two volumes.

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Look to the Rainbow (Astrud Gilberto album)

Look to the Rainbow is a 1966 album by Astrud Gilberto, arranged by Gil Evans and Al Cohn.

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Manuel de Falla

Manuel de Falla y Matheu (23 November 187614 November 1946) was a Spanish composer.

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Maria Schneider (musician)

Maria Lynn Schneider (born November 27, 1960) is an American composer and big-band leader who has won multiple Grammy Awards.

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Martin Scorsese

Martin Charles Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American director, producer, screenwriter, actor and film historian, whose career spans more than 50 years.

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Miles & Quincy Live at Montreux

Miles & Quincy: Live at Montreux is a collaborative live album by American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis and conductor Quincy Jones.

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Miles Ahead (album)

Miles Ahead is an album by Miles Davis that was released in 1957 by Columbia Records.

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Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.

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Milt Hinton

Milton John "Milt" Hinton (June 23, 1910 – December 19, 2000), regarded as the Dean of jazz bass players, was an American double bassist and photographer.

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Modal jazz

Modal jazz is jazz that uses musical modes rather than chord progressions as a harmonic framework.

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Montreux

Montreux is a municipality in the district of Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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New Bottle Old Wine

New Bottle Old Wine is an album by jazz composer, arranger, conductor and pianist Gil Evans recorded in 1958 by Evans with an orchestra.

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Ontario

Ontario is one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and is located in east-central Canada.

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Out of the Cool

Out of the Cool is a jazz album by The Gil Evans Orchestra, recorded in 1960 and released on the Impulse! label the following year.

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Pacific Jazz Records

Pacific Jazz Records was a Los Angeles-based record company and label best known for cool jazz or West coast jazz.

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Parabola (album)

Parabola is a double album by jazz composer, arranger, conductor and pianist Gil Evans recorded in Italy in 1978 by Evans with an orchestra featuring Arthur Blythe, Steve Lacy and Lew Soloff and released on the Italian Horo label.

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Paris Blues (album)

Paris Blues is an album of duets by pianist Gil Evans and saxophonist Steve Lacy recorded in Paris in 1987 and released on the French Owl label.

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Patsy Kensit

Patricia Jude Francis Kensit (born 4 March 1968) is an English actress, singer, model, and former child star.

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Paul Chambers

Paul Laurence Dunbar Chambers, Jr. (April 22, 1935 – January 4, 1969) was a jazz double bassist.

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Peritonitis

Peritonitis is inflammation of the peritoneum, the lining of the inner wall of the abdomen and cover of the abdominal organs.

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Pneumonia

Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung affecting primarily the small air sacs known as alveoli.

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Polyrhythm

Polyrhythm is the simultaneous use of two or more conflicting rhythms, that are not readily perceived as deriving from one another, or as simple manifestations of the same meter.

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Porgy and Bess

Porgy and Bess is an English-language opera by the American composer George Gershwin, with a libretto written by author DuBose Heyward and lyricist Ira Gershwin.

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Porgy and Bess (Miles Davis album)

Porgy and Bess (CL 1274) is a studio album by jazz musician Miles Davis, released in March 1959 on Columbia Records.

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Prestige Records

Prestige Records is a jazz record company and label founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock in New York City.

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Priestess (album)

Priestess is a live album by jazz composer, arranger, conductor and keyboardist Gil Evans recorded in 1977 and performed by Evans with an orchestra featuring David Sanborn, Arthur Blythe, Lew Soloff, and George Adams.

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Quiet Nights (Miles Davis and Gil Evans album)

Quiet Nights is a studio album by jazz musician Miles Davis, and his fourth album collaboration with Gil Evans, released in 1964 on Columbia Records, catalogue CL 2106 and CS 8906 in stereo.

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Quincy Jones

Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933), also known as "Q", is an American musician and record producer.

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Rhythm A Ning (album)

Rhythm A Ning is an album by jazz composer, arranger, conductor and keyboardist Gil Evans recorded in 1987 and performed by Evans with Laurent Cugny's Big Band Lumiere.

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Richard Davis (bassist)

Richard Davis (born April 15, 1930) is an American jazz bassist.

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Robert Graettinger

Robert Frederick Graettinger (October 31, 1923 – March 12, 1957) was an American composer, best known for his work with Stan Kenton.

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Ron Carter

Ronald Levin "Ron" Carter (born May 4, 1937) is an American jazz double bassist.

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Royal Roost

The Royal Roost was a jazz club located at 1580 Broadway in New York City.

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Ryo Kawasaki

is a jazz fusion guitarist and composer from Tokyo, Japan.

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Sade (singer)

Helen Folasade Adu CBE (Fọláṣadé Adú; born 16 January 1959), known professionally as Sade Adu or simply Sade, is a British Nigerian singer and songwriter.

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Saturday Night Live Band

The Saturday Night Live Band (referred to in the closing credits as The Live Band) is the house band of the NBC television program Saturday Night Live (SNL).

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Sketches of Spain

Sketches of Spain is an album by Miles Davis, recorded between November 1959 and March 1960 at the Columbia 30th Street Studio in New York City.

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Smiley Culture

David Victor Emmanuel (10 February 1963 – 15 March 2011), better known as Smiley Culture, was a British reggae singer and DJ known for his 'fast chat' style.

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Spoonful

"Spoonful" is a blues song written by Willie Dixon and first recorded in 1960 by Howlin' Wolf.

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Stan Kenton

Stanley Newcomb Kenton (December 15, 1911 – August 25, 1979) was an American popular music and jazz artist.

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Star People

Star People is a 1983 album recorded by Miles Davis and issued by Columbia Records.

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Steve Lacy

Steve Lacy (July 23, 1934 – June 4, 2004), born Steven Norman Lackritz in New York City, was a jazz saxophonist and composer recognized as one of the important players of soprano saxophone.

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Sting (musician)

Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner (born 2 October 1951), known as Sting, is an English singer, songwriter, and actor.

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Stockton, California

Stockton is a city in and the county seat of San Joaquin County in the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California.

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Svengali (album)

Svengali is a live album by jazz composer, arranger, conductor and pianist Gil Evans, recorded in 1973 by Evans with an orchestra featuring Ted Dunbar, Howard Johnson, David Sanborn, Billy Harper, Richard Williams, Trevor Koehler, and Hannibal Marvin Peterson.

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Sweet Basil Jazz Club

Sweet Basil was a jazz club in New York City's Greenwich Village.

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Synthesizer

A synthesizer (often abbreviated as synth, also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates electric signals that are converted to sound through instrument amplifiers and loudspeakers or headphones.

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Tenor violin

A tenor violin (or tenor viola) is an instrument with a range between those of the cello and the viola.

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Teo Macero

Attilio Joseph "Teo" Macero (October 30, 1925 – February 19, 2008) was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and record producer.

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The Color of Money

The Color of Money is a 1986 American drama film directed by Martin Scorsese from a screenplay by Richard Price, based on the 1984 novel of the same name by Walter Tevis.

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The Gil Evans Orchestra Plays the Music of Jimi Hendrix

The Gil Evans Orchestra Plays the Music of Jimi Hendrix is an album of Jimi Hendrix's compositions arranged by jazz composer, conductor and pianist Gil Evans recorded in 1974 and performed by Evans with an orchestra featuring David Sanborn, Howard Johnson, Billy Harper, and John Abercrombie.

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The Individualism of Gil Evans

The Individualism of Gil Evans is an album by pianist, conductor, arranger and composer Gil Evans originally released on the Verve label in 1964.

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The Mothers of Invention

The Mothers of Invention were an American rock band from California.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Police

The Police were a British rock band formed in London in 1977.

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The Style Council

The Style Council were an English band formed in 1983 by Paul Weller, the former singer, songwriter, and guitarist with the punk rock/new wave/mod revival band The Jam, and keyboardist Mick Talbot, previously a member of Dexys Midnight Runners, The Bureau and The Merton Parkas.

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There Comes a Time (album)

There Comes a Time is an album by jazz composer, arranger, conductor and pianist Gil Evans recorded in 1975 and performed by Evans with an orchestra featuring David Sanborn, Howard Johnson, Billy Harper, and John Abercrombie.

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Third stream

Third Stream is a term coined in 1957 by composer Gunther Schuller, in a lecture at Brandeis University, to describe a musical synthesis of jazz and classical music.

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Tom Malone (musician)

Thomas (Tom) "Bones" Malone (born June 16, 1947) is an American jazz musician, arranger and producer.

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Toronto

Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.

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Tuba

The tuba is the largest and lowest-pitched musical instrument in the brass family.

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Verve Records

Verve Records, founded in 1956 by Norman Granz, is home to the world’s largest jazz catalogue and includes recordings by artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Stan Getz and Billie Holiday, among others.

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Wallace Roney

Wallace Roney (born May 25, 1960, Philadelphia) is an American jazz (hard bop and post-bop) trumpeter.

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Westbeth Artists Community

Westbeth Artists Housing is a nonprofit housing and commercial complex dedicated to providing affordable living and working space for artists and arts organizations in New York City.

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Where Flamingos Fly

Where Flamingos Fly is an album by jazz composer, arranger, conductor and pianist Gil Evans, originally recorded in 1971 for Capitol Records but not released until 1981, and performed by Evans with an orchestra featuring Billy Harper, Howard Johnson, Johnny Coles, and Don Preston.

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Willie Dixon

William James Dixon (July 1, 1915January 29, 1992) was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer.

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1912 in jazz

This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1912.

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1988 in jazz

This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1988.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Evans

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