Gil Evans (13 May 1912, Toronto, Canada – 20 March 1988, Cuernavaca, Mexico) was a jazz pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader, active in the United States. He played an important role in the development of cool jazz, modal jazz, free jazz and jazz fusion, and collaborated extensively with Miles Davis.
Born Ian Ernest Gilmore Green, his name was changed early on to Evans, the name of his stepfather. His family moved to Stockton, California where he spent most of his youth. After 1946, he lived and worked primarily in New York City, living for many years at Westbeth Artists Community.
Between 1941 and 1948, he worked as an arranger for the Claude Thornhill Orchestra. Evans' modest basement apartment behind a New York City Chinese laundry soon became a meeting place for musicians looking to develop new musical styles outside of the dominant bebop style of the day. Those present included the leading bebop performer Charlie Parker himself, as well as Gerry Mulligan and John Carisi. In 1948, Evans, with Miles Davis, Gerry Mulligan, and others, collaborated on a band book for a nonet. These ensembles, larger than the trio-to-quintet "combos", but smaller than the "big bands" which were on the brink of becoming economically unviable, allowed the arrangers to have a larger pallette of colors by using French horns and tuba. Claude Thornhill had employed hornist John Graas in 1942,and composer-arranger Bob Graettinger had scored for horns and tubas with the Stan Kenton orchestra, but the "Kenton sound" was in the context of a dense orchestral wall of sound that Evans avoided.
Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American jazz musician, trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis was, with his musical groups, at the forefront of several major developments in jazz music, including bebop, cool jazz, hard bop, modal jazz, and jazz fusion.
Miles Dewey Davis was born on May 26, 1926, to an affluent African American family in Alton, Illinois. His father, Dr. Miles Henry Davis, was a dentist. In 1927 the family moved to East St. Louis, Illinois. They also owned a substantial ranch in northern Arkansas, where Davis learned to ride horses as a boy.
Davis' mother, Cleota Mae (Henry) Davis, wanted her son to learn the piano; she was a capable blues pianist but kept this fact hidden from her son. His musical studies began at 13, when his father gave him a trumpet and arranged lessons with local musician Elwood Buchanan. Davis later suggested that his father's instrument choice was made largely to irk his wife, who disliked the trumpet's sound. Against the fashion of the time, Buchanan stressed the importance of playing without vibrato; he was reported to have slapped Davis' knuckles every time he started using heavy vibrato. Davis would carry his clear signature tone throughout his career. He once remarked on its importance to him, saying, "I prefer a round sound with no attitude in it, like a round voice with not too much tremolo and not too much bass. Just right in the middle. If I can’t get that sound I can’t play anything."Clark Terry was another important early influence.[citation needed]
James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American musician and singer-songwriter. He is widely considered to be the greatest electric guitarist in music history, and one of the most influential musicians of his era despite mainstream exposure limited to just three years. After initial success in Europe with his group The Jimi Hendrix Experience, he achieved fame in the United States following his 1967 performance at the Monterey Pop Festival. Later, he headlined the iconic 1969 Woodstock Festival and the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival. He often favored raw overdriven amplifiers with high gain and treble and helped develop the previously undesirable technique of guitar amplifier feedback.
Hendrix helped to popularize use of the wah-wah pedal in mainstream rock, which he often used to deliver tonal exaggerations in his solos, particularly with high bends, complex guitar playing, and use of legato. As a record producer, he also broke new ground in using the recording studio as an extension of his musical ideas. He was one of the first to experiment with stereophonic phasing effects for rock recording.[citation needed] He was influenced by blues artists such as B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Albert King and Elmore James,rhythm and blues and soul guitarists Curtis Mayfield and Steve Cropper, and the jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery. Hendrix began dressing and wearing a moustache like Little Richard when he performed and recorded in his band from March 1, 1964 through to the spring of 1965. In 1966, he stated, "I want to do with my guitar what Little Richard does with his voice".
Gil Evans Documentry full
Gil Evans & Ten 1957 - [Full Album]
Gil Evans Orchestra Blues in Orbit
Gil Evans Miles Davis Sketches of Spain
The Gil Evans Orchestra, "La Nevada" (opening)
GIL EVANS ORCHESTRA Live at Sweet Basil January 11th 1988 2nd Set
Stone Free - Gil Evans Orchestra Live in Lugano 1983
Gil Evans - Little Wing
Miles Davis Gil Evans 'Miles Ahead' 1959
Miles Davis & Gil Evans Orchestra "Miles Ahead", Side-A
Gil Evans - The Time of the Barracudas
Miles Davis & Gil Evans "So What" 1959
Miles Davis & Gil Evans 1959
Jazz Theory: Gil Evans' Arrangement of "My Ship"
Plot
Hunters wound a grizzly bear in a national forest in Alaska. Soon after, the wounded bear goes off and kills several other hunters, hikers, campers, the sheriff and a little boy scout. Jason Evers sets out to stop it in the frozen plains of the Alaska mountains.
Keywords: alaska, animal-attack, bear, camping, death, grizzly-bear, gun, helicopter, hiking, hunter
One killer Grizzly towers above the rest!
A raging grizzly bear taking revenge on man
From the Ancient Indians Comes a Legend of Evil
Will the woods ever be safe again?
Henry: Do you want whiskey?::Jason Monroe: No thank you, my little boy was just attacked by a damn grizzly bear.::Henry: Is he alright?::Jason Monroe: I'm not sure.::Henry: Oh, I think I will go drink whiskey now.
Jason Monroe: [screaming into the mountains] You filthy murdering devil! Where are you? I'm going to kill you! You bloody murdering bastard!
Gil Evans Documentry full
Gil Evans & Ten 1957 - [Full Album]
Gil Evans Orchestra Blues in Orbit
Gil Evans Miles Davis Sketches of Spain
The Gil Evans Orchestra, "La Nevada" (opening)
GIL EVANS ORCHESTRA Live at Sweet Basil January 11th 1988 2nd Set
Stone Free - Gil Evans Orchestra Live in Lugano 1983
Gil Evans - Little Wing
Miles Davis Gil Evans 'Miles Ahead' 1959
Miles Davis & Gil Evans Orchestra "Miles Ahead", Side-A
Gil Evans - The Time of the Barracudas
Miles Davis & Gil Evans "So What" 1959
Miles Davis & Gil Evans 1959
Jazz Theory: Gil Evans' Arrangement of "My Ship"
Gil Evans Sting Umbria Jazz 87 Little Wing
Gil Evans: Out of the Cool
Gil Evans - Spoonful
Gil Evans Centennial Celebration "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat"
Gil Evans - Where Flamingos Fly
Gil Evans Orchestra Plays The Music Of Jimi Hendrix : Crosstown traffic
Gil Evans Jaco Pastorius Japan Select Live Under the Sky 1984.mov
Gil Evans & The monday night orchestra - Live at sweet Basil (Vol.1)
Gil Evans - Las Vegas tango
Gil Evans Orchestra Umbria Jazz 1974
Gil Evans Orchestra Live in Barcelona 1976.mov
Sting & Gil Evans - Roxanne (live - Umbria Jazz 1987)
Voodoo Chile - Gil Evans & the Monday Night Orchestra, Live @ Sweet Basil
Sting & Gil Evans - Consider Me Gone (live - Umbria Jazz 1987)
Sting & Gil Evans - little wing live @ Perugia Jazz Festival
Gil Evans+Jaco Pastorius-Jaco Solo- Soul Intro-The Chicken-Live 7.28.84
Gil Evans - Gone gone gone
Gil Evans - Little Wing - Live At Umbria Jazz - Part 1
Live - Miles Davis and Gil Evans' Porgy and Bess
Sting & Gil Evans - Tea in The Sahara Walking On The Moon [ Umbria Jazz 1987 - Live ]
Sting & Gil Evans Orchestra - Little Wing
Gil Evans - Zee Zee
Sting & Gil Evans Band - There comes a time - live 1987
Miles Davis with Gil Evans "New Rhumba" (1959)
Gil Evans Orchestra with Jaco Pastorius at Live Under the Sky '84
Gil Evans Japan 1984 interview Clip.mov
Donny McCaslin on Maria Schneider and Gil Evans
H Rap Brown Interviewed by Gil Evans
Bill Evans - The Creative Process and Self-Teaching
Interview Laurent Cugny (Francais) | Juin 2014 | GEPW
Interview Laurent Cugny (English) - June 2014 - GEPW
Angel by Jimi Hendrix perform by Gil Evans Orchestra
Gil Evans Centennial Celebration "Little Wing" Full Version
Lenny White Interview at Jazz à Vienne in France.
Interview with Gil Smith II - Music Director
Teaser - Gil Evans Paris Workshop - Dir. Laurent Cugny - November 2014 (English Version)
Voodoo Chile - Gil Evans Orchestra
Time of the Barracudas/Spoonful -- Gil Evans Project @ Jazz Standard, NYC
Saeta - from the Miles Davis/Gil Evans Sketces of Spain sessions
WRFG radio interview for MIFY with Julie Dexter Intro & Baili singing Dog Days
WRFG radio interview for MIFY with Kara Wise playing Blackwater Blues
Gil Evans & The monday night orchestra - Live at Sweet Basil Vol. 2
Gil Evans Orchestra "London" Sweet Basil 1988
Miles Davis - Quiet Nights (arranged and conducted by Gil Evans)
Gil Evans Orchestra "Subway" Sweet Basil 1988
Gil Evans Memorial April 1988 NYC.mov
Gil Evans Orchestra "Waltz" Sweet Basil 1988
Gil Evans Orchestra Sweet Basil January 11th 1988 1st Set 1st tune
Gil Evans Orchestra Sweet Basil January 11th 1988 1st Set 3rd Tune
Gil Evans - Antibes 1975
Miles Davis and Gil Evans: Porgy and Bess: March 29, 2014
Gil Evans Memorial NYC 1988 (Rehearsal).mov
Gil Evans Memorial NYC 1988 Camera 2.mov