Gil Evans

Arab Dance' was copyrighted in 1941. It is credited to both Thornhill and Evans, although the manuscript is clearly in Evans hand. The melody comes from a section of Tchaikovsky's 'Nutcracker' ballet,...

RECORDED BY GIL EVANS ARRANGED BY GIL EVANS, EDITED BY JEFFREY SULTANOF Jambangle was one of the earliest compositions by Evans after several years of arranging the music of others. He originally wrot...

RECORDED BY CLAUDE THORNHILL ARRANGED BY GIL EVANS, EDITED BY JEFFREY SULTANOF Background: Some of the most well-known arrangements of modern jazz from the mid-1940s (commonly called bebop, although m...

Recorded by Claude Thornhill Arranged by Gil Evans, Edited by Jeffrey Sultanof Background: In the mid 1930s, Gil Evans was leading a Benny Goodman-styled big band on the west coast. Surviving aircheck...

Jazz Big Band Arrangement. Full Score, Reed 1: Clarinet/Alto Saxophone, Reed 2: Clarinet/Alto Saxophone, Reed 3: Clarinet/Tenor Saxophone, Reed 4: Tenor Saxophone, Reed 5: Baritone Saxophone, 3 Trumpe...

Jazz Big Band Arrangement with Vocal. Full Score, Vocal, 2 Alto Saxophones (Alto 2 doubles Clarinet), 2 Tenor Saxophones, Baritone Saxophone, 4 Trumpets (4th is an alternate part for Horn 1), 3 Trombo...

Recorded by Miles Davis Arranged by Gil Evans, Edited by Jeffrey Sultanof When George Avakian signed Miles Davis to Columbia Records, he wanted the artist to make an album with a big band. There were...

As Recorded by Miles Davis Jazz Big Band Arrangement This arrangement was written and recorded in 1957 and appeared on the 'Miles Ahead' album. This is pure brilliance by Evans. 'Miles Ahead' was an a...

This Gil Evans vocal arrangement was recorded multiple times by the Claude Thornhill Orchestra. Piano is featured throughout this arrangement as well trumpet, who has an 8 bar solo. We have included a...

Big Band (5/3/2/4) Here is Gil Evans's arrangement of the Clarence and Spencer Williams classic blues standard Royal Garden Blues. This chart was written as a piano feature for Claude Thornhill. The r...

Jazz Orchestra Arrangement. Full Score, Trumpet or Flugelhorn Soloist, Reed 1: Alto Saxophone, Reed 2: Flute, Reed 3: Flute, Reed 4: Flute, Piccolo, and Bass Flute, 4 Trumpets, 3 Horns in F, 4 Trombon...

Jazz Big Band Arrangement. Full Score, Reed 1: Clarinet, Reed 2: Clarinet, Reed 3: Clarinet, Reed 4: Bass Clarinet, Reed 5: Clarinet/Baritone Saxophone, 3 Trumpets, 2 Horns in F, 2 Trombones, Guitar,...

RECORDED BY CLAUDE THORNHILL ARRANGED BY GIL EVANS, EDITED BY JEFFREY SULTANOF Background: In many ways, Claude Thornhill led an avant-garde society dance band. Like such leaders as Henry King and Ted...

One of the most frequently covered songs from George and Ira Gershwin's opera 'Porgy and Bess,' 'It Ain't Necessarily So' is intended to serve as a defining moment for the character of Sportin' Life,...

Written by French composer Leo Delibes in 1874, 'The Maids of Cadiz' was mostly known as a vocal piece before arranger Gil Evans heavily reworked it for inclusion on his 1957 collaboration with trumpe...

Bess, You Is My Woman Now' is a crucial plot point in George and Ira Gershwin's opera 'Porgy and Bess;' it serves as the moment when the title characters admit and embrace their love for one another....

Gil Evans's arrangement of 'Here Come Da Honey Man' is the shortest track on Miles Davis's 1958 version of 'Porgy and Bess.' In the original opera, it serves as a brief but effective introduction of P...

Much like 'Bess, You Is My Woman Now,' 'I Loves You Porgy' serves as a declaration of love between the title characters of the Gershwin/Heyward opera 'Porgy and Bess.' Gil Evans's arrangement for Mile...

W.C. Handy's 'St. Louis Blues' had already entered the pantheon of classic blues melodies when Gil Evans wrote this arrangement in 1958. The album that it appeared on, 'New Bottle, Old Wine,' was a co...

AS RECORDED BY MILES DAVIS ARRANGED BY GIL EVANS, EDITED BY JEFFREY SULTANOF Gil Evans set up shop in his small New York apartment above a Chinese laundry acting as an adviser to a group of jazz music...

Gil Evans set up shop in his small New York apartment above a Chinese laundry acting as an adviser to a group of jazz musicians. Evans was already well-known as an adventurous arranger who took inspir...

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