Gil Evans News

Gil Evans birthday celebrations will feature the Gil Evans Orchestra tonight, May 13th at Highline Ballroom and Gil Evans Project, May 14-19 at The Jazz Standard.

Gil Evans birthday celebrations will feature the Gil Evans Orchestra on May 13th at Highline Ballroom and Gil Evans Project, May 14-19 at The Jazz Standard.

Maria Schneider is best known as a big-band leader and arranger, who began her career in the 1980s working with Gil Evans .

Shorter was a member of Miles Davis' legendary mid-1960s quintet and co-founded the fusion band Weather Report.

One of the most pivotal collaborations in the history of jazz featured trumpeter Miles Davis and arranger Gil Evans. Beginning in 1949, when Evans arranged two songs for the pivotal Birth of the Cool album, the two teamed up on several landmark albums, including Miles Ahead , Porgy and Bess , and Sketches of Spain .