biography
| name: |
Evans, Gil
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popular name of Ian Ernest Gilmore Green
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1912–88)
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| biography:
| Jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, born in Toronto, Ontario, SE Canada. He was principal arranger for the Claude Thornhill Orchestra (1944–8), which led to a collaboration with trumpeter Miles Davis that lasted until 1960. He was one of the first modern jazz arrangers to use electronics and rock influences successfully in combination with the swing and bebop idioms. |
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