Gil Evans, who enriched the art and craft of jazz arranging, was born 100 years ago today. National Public Radio this morning ended one of its hours on Weekend Edition Sunday with a remembrance of ...
I love producers and performers who fall madly in love with legacy jazz artists and go the distance to pay tribute to them. I'm thinking of what producer-director Kristian St. Clair did with his 2006 ...
For some, it's the last real taste of innocence, and the first real taste of life.
Gil Evans, one of the most important jazz arrangers of the 20th century, was born 100 years ago today. Evans made it sound easy, but Emile Charlap — a music copyist who worked with Evans in the '50s, ...