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Gil Evans: Jambangle (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music December 21, 08

Gil Evans kept a low profile in the music world from 1949-1955, even though he arranged for Billy Butterfield and var...

Gil Evans (featuring Wayne Shorter): Time of the Barracudas (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music January 18, 08

On a series of stellar albums under his own name in the 1960s, Gil Evans went one step forward in cementing his reput...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: 12 ESSSENTIAL WAYNE SHORTER TRACKS

Early stints with Horace Silver and Maynard Ferguson introduced Wayne Shorter’s riveting sound to the jazz community ...

Gil Evans: The Barbara Song (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music March 20, 09

As is the case with almost all of Gil Evans's most personal treatments of other people's works, calling this performa...

Gil Evans: The Barbara Song (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music April 20, 09

Gil Evans’ use of space, interesting combinations of instruments, and keen eye for talent are all in evidence on this...

This track review is included in: DESERT ISLAND DOZENS: FRANK KIMBROUGH

Not many jazz musicians have had a stronger revitalizing and sustaining impact on the everyday NYC jazz scene over ...

Gil Evans: Up From the Skies (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 10, 09

It is a must to pick one of the pieces that Gil played regularly at Sweet Basil's jazz club in Manhattan with the las...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MARIA SCHNEIDER SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL GIL EVANS TRACKS

In 2006, during a “listening session” with New York Times music writer Ben Ratliff, Maria Schneider compared Gil Evan...

Gil Evans: The Barbara Song (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 10, 09

When I first heard this arrangement, I was immediately in love with it. I thought of it as a "Gil piece," not an arr...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MARIA SCHNEIDER SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL GIL EVANS TRACKS

In 2006, during a “listening session” with New York Times music writer Ben Ratliff, Maria Schneider compared Gil Evan...

Dutch Jazz Orchestra: Easy Living Medley (Easy Living/Everything Happens to Me/Moon Dreams) (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 10, 09

For my last choice I'm going to offer something that 99% of you will not have heard, because it seems not to have bee...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MARIA SCHNEIDER SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL GIL EVANS TRACKS

In 2006, during a “listening session” with New York Times music writer Ben Ratliff, Maria Schneider compared Gil Evan...

Claude Thornhill: Yardbird Suite (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 23, 07

Once the Swing Era expired like a lapsed subscription to The Saturday Evening Post, many big-name bandleaders became ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JAZZ FOR THE BIRDS

It's only fitting. Since birds inspire us with their songs, composers return the favor, dedicating music in every gen...

Gil Evans: Bird Feathers (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music January 06, 09

Gil Evans has long had the well-earned reputation as jazz's supreme orchestral colorist. There was, however, a lot mo...

Gil Evans: Up From the Skies (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 30, 08

The collaboration that tragically never materialized between master arranger Gil Evans and guitar hero Jimi Hendrix n...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MODERN BIG BANDS

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Gil Evans: La Nevada (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 24, 08

“La Nevada” is Spanish for “Snowfall,” bandleader Claude Thornhill’s theme. Yet in contrast to the airtight orchestra...

Gil Evans: Stratusphunk (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music July 10, 09

Gil Evans and George Russell first paced together in Birth of the Cool's modernity ward—the late-1940s salon in Gil's...

Gil Evans: Let The Juice Loose (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music May 12, 08

For the last five years of his life, Gil Evans and his Monday Night Orchestra held forth at the New York's Sweet Basi...

Gil Evans: La Nevada (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 15, 08

Gil Evans was always adept at the “less is more” theory. One year before this recording, he issued Great Jazz Standar...

Claude Thornhill (featuring Gil Evans): The Troubador (based on "The Old Castle" from Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Ex... (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 10, 09

I ask that you spend 99 cents and buy “Pictures at an Exhibition” (the orchestral version) orchestrated by Ravel, and...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MARIA SCHNEIDER SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL GIL EVANS TRACKS

In 2006, during a “listening session” with New York Times music writer Ben Ratliff, Maria Schneider compared Gil Evan...

Gil Evans with RMS: Little Wing (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music May 11, 08

After gaining recognition with bandleader Claude Thornhill, arranger Gil Evans worked with Miles Davis, Charlie Parke...

Claude Thornhill (featuring Gil Evans): Sorta Kinda (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 10, 09

This recording has so many great Gil Evans arrangements that I'd easily qualify it as a must-own CD. I love this par...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MARIA SCHNEIDER SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL GIL EVANS TRACKS

In 2006, during a “listening session” with New York Times music writer Ben Ratliff, Maria Schneider compared Gil Evan...

Gil Evans: Summertime (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music January 27, 08

This is essentially a rearrangement of the score that Gil Evans wrote for Miles Davis's Porgy and Bess (1958). But Ev...

Gil Evans & Steve Lacy: Reincarnation of a Lovebird (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 16, 07

Steve Lacy’s association with Gil Evans was three decades strong in 1987 when the two met for what would be Evans’ fi...

Miles Davis-Gil Evans: Bess, Oh, Where Is My Bess? (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 10, 09

How does one pick a favorite piece from Gil's and Miles' Porgy and Bess album? Tough to do. I've chosen this piece ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MARIA SCHNEIDER SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL GIL EVANS TRACKS

In 2006, during a “listening session” with New York Times music writer Ben Ratliff, Maria Schneider compared Gil Evan...

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