Gil Evans: Out of the Cool: His Life and Music

The life (1912-1988) and career of Gil Evans paralleled and often foreshadowed the quickly changing world of jazz through the twentieth century. His innovative work as a composer, arranger, and bandleader -- for Miles Davis, with whom he frequently collaborated over the course of four decades, and for his own ensembles -- places him alongside Duke Ellington and Aaron Copland as one of the giants of American music. His unflagging creativity galvanized the most prominent jazz musicians in the worl…