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contribution by Evans

In Gil Evans
…Porgy and Bess (1958), and Sketches of Spain (1960), all arranged by Evans. The albums “rank with the finest orchestral music of the 20th century,” according to jazz scholar Ian Carr, and Evans’s arrangements were praised as having
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In Miles Davis: Cool jazz and modal jazz
…Porgy and Bess (1958), and Sketches of Spain (1960)—were also monuments of the genre. The Davis-Evans collaborations were marked by complex arrangements, a near-equal emphasis on orchestra and soloist, and some of Davis’s most soulful and emotionally powerful playing. Davis and Evans occasionally collaborated in later years, but never again…
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