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Gil Evans: Robbins' Nest

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2008-06-24 08:39:48 by Marc Myers in JazzWax
...Evans arrangement is the Skinnay Ennis Orchestra's Strange Enchantment in 1939. Two years later, Evans [pictured] joined Claude Thornhill's orchestra and remained with the bandleader until 1949, with a four-year break for World War II. It was during his second stay with Thornhill that Evans developed his signature orchestral sound. One of the...
 
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Gil Evans: Robbins' Nest

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2008-06-24 08:39:48 by Marc Myers in JazzWax
...Evans arrangement is the Skinnay Ennis Orchestra's Strange Enchantment in 1939. Two years later, Evans [pictured] joined Claude Thornhill's orchestra and remained with the bandleader until 1949, with a four-year break for World War II. It was during his second stay with Thornhill that Evans developed his signature orchestral sound. One of the...
 
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Gil Evans: Robbins' Nest

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2008-06-24 08:39:48 by Marc Myers in JazzWax
...Evans arrangement is the Skinnay Ennis Orchestra's Strange Enchantment in 1939. Two years later, Evans [pictured] joined Claude Thornhill's orchestra and remained with the bandleader until 1949, with a four-year break for World War II. It was during his second stay with Thornhill that Evans developed his signature orchestral sound. One of the...
 
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Bill Evans: Conversations

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2008-01-18 07:42:20 by Marc Myers in JazzWax
...Evans Live in Paris 1965 CD last week ("Bill Evans: Last Great Album," January 8, 2008), I received an email from Jan Stevens. Jan is one of the foremost experts on Evans and the host of the best and most authoritative Bill Evans site The Bill Evans Web Pages Jan and I have been friends for some time, and he felt I had gone a little too far...
 
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Bill Evans: Last Great Album

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2008-01-09 07:56:03 by Marc Myers in JazzWax
...Evans' most sensitive recording period spans from June 25, 1961 to February 3, 1965. (This would exclude, of course, Evans' disastrous Plays the Theme From the VIPs and Other Great Songs from May 1963, an album that's also likely arranger Claus Ogerman's biggest mistake For me, Evans' 3 1/2-year sweet spot starts with Sunday at the Village...
 
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Bill Evans: Alone (Again)

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2008-10-06 07:55:48 by Marc Myers in JazzWax
...Evans' best-known albums are solo piano recordings. He won Grammy Awards for two of them: Conversations with Myself (1963) and Alone (1968). Yet the pianist never enjoyed recording by himself. Producers who worked with him over the years attributed Evans' solo-phobia to discomfort over being too emotionally exposed. You also get the sense...
 
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Jazz for After the Dentists Office: Cannonball Adderley and Bill Evans

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2008-01-08 04:08:37 by David in WFIU: Night Lights Jazz Blog
...Evans Explorations . For some reason, whenever I return from the dentists office (that inevitable destination and proverbial source of jokes about smooth jazz), its another Evans recordmade around the same time as Explorations , and officially led by saxophonist Cannonball Adderley that I turn to: Know What I Mean Adderley and Evans had...
 
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Anthology to host benefit for Carl Evans Jr. founding member of Fattburger

2008-01-12 00:44:51 by bandweblogs in Band Weblogs
 
...Evans Jr., the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Concerts Benefit for Carl Evans Jr. , on Sunday January 20, 2008 in San Diego, California Carl Evans Jr. , underwent surgery on December 10, 2007 to remove his left leg below the knee. This surgery was necessary to continue his ongoing battle against Diabetes. A founding member of the Grammy nominated...
 
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Echoes and Reverberations: The Photography of Vern Evans

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2008-09-24 16:40:56 by Pete Freedman in DC9 At Night
...Evans Check It Out: We've posted a slideshow of Vern Evans' photography The late '70s will forever be remembered as a remarkable paradigm shift for rock music in Dallas Mark Lee, the owner of tiny bar just off Maple Avenue called The Hot Klub, began the risky proposition of booking punk rock and New Wave bands from the UK at his club; among...
 
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After the Vanguard: the Return of Bill Evans

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2007-12-11 21:54:15 by David in WFIU: Night Lights Jazz Blog
...Evans for the first time, he told the pianist that his recordings sounded like love letters written to the world from some prison of the heart. Lees was just one of many to feel such an emotional connection with Evans playing, which inspired a cult-like following that continues to this day. The group that he formed in 1959 with bassist Scott...
 
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