On what would have been his 90th birthday, the life and music of jazz's nonpareil arranger Gil Evans will be celebrated this May 13th at Joe's Pub, one of Manhattan's top nightspots, with two sets of ...

Just like Miles Davis, Gil Evans’s timeless arrangements charted the course of jazz during the 20th century, influencing big bands to bebop to cool and beyond. Ian Ernest Gilmore (Gil) Evans was born ...

When Gil Evans died in 1988, many of his scores had never been recorded. A few years ago, his family opened its collection to young composer Ryan Truesdell, who studied the music measure for measure ...

What if there were lost big-band masterpieces by the great composer/arranger Gil Evans which never made it to record? In fact, there are plenty of them, according to composer/arranger Ryan Truesdell.

Ryan Truesdell presents the Gil Evans Project in an exciting pre-release concert series at Birdland in New York City, celebrating the upcoming album Shades of Sound: Gil Evans Project Live at Jazz ...

Scholar and fan Ryan Truesdell has turned unheard Evans scores into richly textured works. Gil Evans, born a century ago this year, was a leading jazz arranger and composer starting in the 1940s, when ...

In 1972 I got a call to play French Horn with Gil Evans for a week at the Village Vanguard in New York City. I expected to be playing classics from “Sketches of Spain” and “Porgy & Bess.” Nope. What I ...

Recently, I purchased an audiophile edition of the 1957 album, Gil Evans & Ten. I’ll just start by saying that 200-gram analog vinyl—in mono—never sounded so good. Of course, there’s the sheer ...

Lots of stories on the radio and Internet Sunday honoring what would have been the 100th birthday of iconic jazz arranger, pianist, and bandleader Gil Evans. Evans died in 1988 at age 75 after a ...

2 Listen to the 2026 Grammy Nominees for Best Musical Theater Album Following in the footsteps of the band's two critically acclaimed and Grammy Award-nominated albums, Centennial (2012) and Lines of ...