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02-13-2011, 12:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Ridgewood, NJ | | | The Gil Evans Arrangements
THE arrangements - Miles Ahead, Porgy, Sketches
Have they ever been published in original form?
Does anyone know where they are?
These are essential jazz history. It would be a crime for them to just disappear.
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02-13-2011, 01:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Chicago | | | OT, but of interest. Harvard has the arrangements from Miles' first nonet album. Don't know if they are original manuscript. |
02-13-2011, 01:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Ridgewood, NJ | | | Eric,
How did you learn this?
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02-13-2011, 01:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Chicago | | | My daughter played horn in the band that did a re-creation around 2005 I think. Wish I could have gone out to hear the concert.
You might contact the fellow who runs the jazz bands there, forget his name, for info.
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02-13-2011, 02:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: NYC | | | Gents...
Per Gil's instruction, many of his arrangements were destroyed when he passed away. According to his biography, he felt young arrangers/composers should have to transcribe his works. That being said, there's a guy in NY who has spent much time researching and editing. I have to search for his name. Faddis and the Carnegie Hall band did Porgy and Bess many moons ago.
Gil's son, Miles, oversees gilevans.com and I'm sure would be open to communication. I've been a copyist at Jazz at Lincoln Center for the past 10 years and we worked together on a Gil Evans tribute at JALC probably 3 years ago. He had some rough sketch scores that I had to orchestrate/transcribe. Great guy. |
02-13-2011, 04:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Ridgewood, NJ | | | jfk
Got the contact; thanks.
Do you know my arranger friend Jacques Rizzo?
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02-13-2011, 05:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: NYC | | Hey Don,
I'm not familiar with Mr. Rizzo. Is he in NYC?
jonathan
ps--Joe Muccioli was the name I couldn't recall earlier.
here is his info at allaboutjazz.com http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/musician.php?id=15101 |
02-13-2011, 05:53 PM
| | Inadvertent Microtonalist | | Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Portland, ME | | | When I was in high school we once tried a printed chart of "Maids of Cadiz" so I know it's out there somewhere . . . |
02-13-2011, 06:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: WNY | | | Talk to Maria Schneider (Grammy award-winning jazz arranger/composer). She got her start by being Gil's assistant/copier. |
02-13-2011, 07:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Ridgewood, NJ | | | I have e-mailed Gil's son.
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02-13-2011, 11:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: San Francisco, CA | | The arrangements from the Miles Davis nonet album Birth of the Cool, "restored from as many of the original composer/arrangers' autograph parts as still exist," have been published. http://www.amazon.com/Miles-Davis-Sc...7663287&sr=1-7
I believe Gil Evans arranged two of the tunes therein: Moon Dreams and Boplicity.
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02-18-2011, 03:15 PM
| | | | There are complete parts to Miles Ahead. My college Jazz Ensemble performed the whole album last year. I think our conductor got in touch with Gil's son to get the parts.
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02-18-2011, 03:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Ridgewood, NJ | | Quote:
Originally Posted by John_Madere  I think our conductor got in touch with Gil's son to get the parts. | I have done that.
Thanks, everyone.
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