Miles Evans (jazz musician)

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Miles Ian Gilmore Evans (born July 5, 1965 in New York City ) is an American jazz musician ( trumpet ) and band leader.

Live and act

Evans is the second son of Anita and Gil Evans . From 1974 he received trumpet lessons from Lew Soloff and Jon Faddis , who were then part of the Gil Evans Orchestra . Since 1982 the trumpeter, whose sound is based on Miles Davis , has played in the Monday Night Orchestra , with which he also recorded ( Live At Sweet Basil , 1985) and also toured Europe with his father's band.

After the death of his father in 1988 he took over the direction of the orchestra, with which he completed several European tours ( Tribute To Gil , 1988) and in 1991 also recorded with Miles Davis at the Montreux Jazz Festival . In 1996 he reactivated the Gil Evans Orchestra to perform his father's classical arrangements with him in New York.

He later led a band under his own name, with which he released the album Knock Knock in 2005 . He can also be heard on albums by Johnny Avalanche , Ray Russell , Quincy Jones , Hard 2 Obtain , Lew Soloff, Jaco Pastorius and Sting . Tom Lord records 33 recordings of Evans between 1981 and 2000.

Lexical entries

  • Friedel Keim The Big Book of the Trumpet: Instrument, History, Trumpeter Lexicon, Volume 1 . Mainz 2005

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stephanie Stein Crease Gil Evans: Out of the Cool Chicago 2002, p. 254
  2. ^ S. Stein Crease Gil Evans: Out of the Cool , p. 326
  3. ^ No Jazz Times Convention This Fall; Gil Evans - Gone, But Cool As Ever Billboard , May 18, 1996
  4. ↑ Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography
personal data
SURNAME Evans, Miles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Evans, Miles Ian Gilmore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (trumpet) and band leader
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City