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Evan Edward Evans (born September 13, 1975 in Bergen County, New Jersey) is an American film score composer. He is the son of jazz pianist Bill Evans. He attended University of California, Los Angeles and Nadia Boulanger Institute in Paris.
Evan Evans may refer to: Evan Alfred Evans (1876–1948), US judge. Evan Evans (racing driver) (born 1965), off-road champion racing in Championship Off-Road Racing. Evan Evans (academic) (1813–1891), Master of Pembroke College, Oxford and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford.
Evan Evans. Music Department: Under Surveillance. Composer Evan Evans' sensibilities and knowledge of film, along with his innate musical talent and abilities have afforded him incredible opportunities very early in his career.
Our lead Composer and founder of E3 Studios, Evan Evans, has scored countless narrative productions over the last 25 years in Hollywood. He is a world renown specialist on the psychology of music in the dramatic arts who has innovated groundbreaking techniques for using music under visual.
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Gil Evans was born in Toronto, Canada, on May 13, 1912, to Margaret Julia McConnachy. Little is known about Evans' biological father, although a family friend said that he was a doctor who died before Evans was born. Originally named Gilmore Ian Ernest Green, Evans took the last name of his step-father, John Evans, a miner. The family moved frequen...
Between 1941 and 1948, Evans worked as an arranger for the Claude Thornhill Orchestra. Even then, early in his career, his arrangements were such a challenge to musicians that bassist Bill Crow recalled that bandleader Thornhill would bring out Evans's arrangements "when he wanted to punish the band." Evans' modest basement apartment behind a New Y...
In 1986, Evans produced and arranged the soundtrack to the film of the Colin MacInnes book Absolute Beginners, thereby working with such contemporary artists as Sade Adu, Patsy Kensit's Eighth Wonder, the Style Council, Jerry Dammers, Smiley Culture, Edward Tudor-Pole, and David Bowie. He also arranged the music for the 1986 Martin Scorsese film Th...
Evans first married Lillian Grace following the 1949 Birth of the Cool recording sessions. Very little is known about this marriage. In 1963, he would marry again. Evans was survived by his second wife, Anita (Cooper), and two children, Noah and Miles. His son Miles played trumpet in his Monday Night Orchestra. Evans died of peritonitis in Cuernava...
In 1986, Evans was inducted into the DownBeatJazz Hall of Fame.He was also inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1997.As leader
1. Gil Evans & Ten(Prestige, 1958) 2. New Bottle Old Wine(World Pacific, 1958) 3. Great Jazz Standards(World Pacific, 1959) 4. Out of the Cool(Impulse!, 1961) 5. Into the Hot(Impulse!, 1962) 6. The Individualism of Gil Evans(Verve, 1964) - Reissued in 1988 on extended CD 7. Gil Evans (Ampex, 1970) – also released as Blues in Orbit(Enja, 1980) 8. Svengali(Atlantic, 1973) 9. The Gil Evans Orchestra Plays the Music of Jimi Hendrix(RCA Victor, 1974) 10. Previously Unreleased Recordings(Verve, 197...
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By recording date 1. 1947-49: Claude Thornhill Orchestra, The Real Birth of the Cool: Studio Recordings (CBS/Sony, 1971) 2. 1949-50: Miles Davis, Birth of the Cool (Capitol, 1957) 3. 1950-52: Charlie Parker, Big Band (Clef, 1954) 4. 1955: Hal McKusick, The Jazz Workshop (RCA Victor, 1956) 5. 1956: Johnny Mathis, Johnny Mathis (Columbia, 1956) 6. 1956: Marcy Lutes, Debut (Decca, 1956) 7. 1957: Lucy Reed, This Is Lucy Reed (Fantasy, 1957) 8. 1956-57: Helen Merrill, Dream of You (EmArcy, 1957) 9...
2004: RMS Live with Gil Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1983(Angel Air)2007: Gil Evans and His Orchestra(V.I.E.W. Video)2007: Strange Fruit with Sting2009: Miles Davis – The Cool Jazz SoundGil Evans discography at DiscogsGil Evans at IMDbJackson, Kenneth T.; Markoe, Karen; Markoe, Arnold, eds. (1999). "Evans, Gil". The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives. Vol. 2: 1986-1990. Charles Scribner's Sons – via Gale Academic Onefile.Evan Evans. Music Department: Under Surveillance. Composer Evan Evans' sensibilities and knowledge of film, along with his innate musical talent and abilities have afforded him incredible opportunities very early in his career.
Evan Evans is a film composer known for his rich and complex scores which embody the effectiveness of Jerry Goldsmith and the rebelliousness of Bernard Herrmann. Evans continues in their spirit...
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