American composer, arranger, bandleader, and pianist (1912–1988)
Tags
Ian Ernest Gilmore "Gil" Evans (né Green) (May 13, 1912 – March 20, 1988) was a jazz pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader (The Gil Evans Orchestra), active in the United States. He played an important role in the development of cool jazz, modal jazz, free jazz and jazz fusion, and collaborated extensively with Miles Davis Gil Evans was born in Toronto, Canada, as Ian Ernest Gilmore Green and early took the family name Evans from his stepfather. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Gil+Evans
5 total works indexed
· 2021 · cited 41,528x
· 1999 · cited 20,958x
· 2001 · cited 18,514x
· 2015 · cited 17,368x
· 2024 · cited 13,226x
via Crossref · CC0
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).