"Individualism: Gil Evans in the 1960s"

[ghost of miles]

Gil Evans, a Canadian-born pianist and composer, “enormously expanded the vocabulary of the jazz orchestra,” as writer Gene Lees pointed out, reducing the standard big-band instrumentation, restraining its vibrato, and adding flutes, oboes, English and French horns, and tubas. Self-taught as an arranger, he created a quietly dramatic, dark-hued sound-world that drew on a multiplicity of influences ranging from Spanish music and the French Impressionists to Duke Ellington and the bebop revolutionaries of the 1940s. Trumpeter Miles Davis once said of Evans, “He used to just go inside of music and pull things out another person normally wouldn’t have heard.”

Evans is best known to jazz fans for his late-1940s and 1950s collaborations with Davis that yielded classics such as Miles Ahead. Although he seemed to spend much of the 1960s lying low, he made two of his finest records—Out of the Cool and The Individualism of Gil Evans–attempted several more projects with Davis, and helped craft albums for guitarist Kenny Burrell and singer Astrud Gilberto. We’ll hear music from all of these sessions, as well as a track from Evans’ end-of-decade LP Blues in Orbit.

"Individualism: Gil Evans in the 1960s" airs this evening at 11:05 EST on WFIU, at 9 p.m. Central Time on WNIN-Evansville, and at 11 p.m. Central Time on Oklahoma Public Radio. It will air tomorrow evening at 10 p.m. EST on Michigan's Blue Lake Public Radio and will be posted for online listening Monday morning in the Night Lights archives.

Edited October 13, 2010 by ghost of miles

[ghost of miles]

Individualism: Gil Evans in the 1960s is now archived for online listening. Edited October 13, 2010 by ghost of miles

[ghost of miles]

We re-aired Individualism: Gil Evans in the 1960s this past week on Night Lights, and it remains archived for online listening.

[Cliff Englewood]

Gil Evans, a Canadian-born pianist and composer, “enormously expanded the vocabulary of the jazz orchestra,” as writer Gene Lees pointed out, reducing the standard big-band instrumentation, restraining its vibrato, and adding flutes, oboes, English and French horns, and tubas. Self-taught as an arranger, he created a quietly dramatic, dark-hued sound-world that drew on a multiplicity of influences ranging from Spanish music and the French Impressionists to Duke Ellington and the bebop revolutionaries of the 1940s. Trumpeter Miles Davis once said of Evans, “He used to just go inside of music and pull things out another person normally wouldn’t have heard.”

Evans is best known to jazz fans for his late-1940s and 1950s collaborations with Davis that yielded classics such as Miles Ahead. Although he seemed to spend much of the 1960s lying low, he made two of his finest records—Out of the Cool and The Individualism of Gil Evans–attempted several more projects with Davis, and helped craft albums for guitarist Kenny Burrell and singer Astrud Gilberto. We’ll hear music from all of these sessions, as well as a track from Evans’ end-of-decade LP Blues in Orbit.

"Individualism: Gil Evans in the 1960s" airs this evening at 11:05 EST on WFIU, at 9 p.m. Central Time on WNIN-Evansville, and at 11 p.m. Central Time on Oklahoma Public Radio. It will air tomorrow evening at 10 p.m. EST on Michigan's Blue Lake Public Radio and will be posted for online listening Monday morning in the Night Lights archives.

Another very good show there Ghost, I'm listening to it as I await updates on the future of Liverpool FC, the Board is meeting right now. It's perfect music for the range of emotions I'm feeling right now, :unsure: :g keep up the good work. :tup

[danasgoodstuff]

"Spoonful" with tubas, yeah!

[Cliff Englewood]

"Spoonful" with tubas, yeah!

Amen to that, I had completely forgotton how good that album was.