Jazz Articles about Ryan Truesdell

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Album Review

Ryan Truesdell's Gil Evans Project: Lines Of Color

Read "Lines Of Color" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
March 21, 2015

How do you create a follow-up to an album like Centennial-Newly Discovered Works Of Gil Evans (Artist Share, 2012)? That beauty--the debut from Ryan Truesdell's Gil Evans Project--was more than a standout record; it was an artistic tour de force and a recording for the ages. In crafting that album, Truesdell married his archeological skills, curatorial instincts, arranger's eyes and ears, organizational savvy, and profound respect for the Gil Evans legacy. All of those aspects are also wedded on this ...

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The Gil Evans Project directed by Ryan Truesdell at Jazz Standard

by Dan Bilawsky
May 24, 2013

The Gil Evans Project directed by Ryan TruesdellJazz StandardNew York, NYMay 17, 2013 Somewhere along the way, the centennial of a notable jazz figure's birth became a major cause for celebration and reflection. Unfortunately, these celebrations have occasionally become last hurrahs for the dearly departed, as their life's work fades into the mist of time after they get their hundred-year due; the hardcore jazz community never really forgets or forsakes them, but the rest ...

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Ryan Truesdell‎: Centennial - Newly Discovered Works Of Gil Evans

by Victor L. Schermer
July 17, 2012

Ryan Truesdell Centennial: Newly Discovered Works Of Gil Evans Artist Share 2012 This CD, released to celebrate the 100th birthday of the late Gil Evans, provides a wealth of listening pleasure. It is also a US national treasure that deserves a place in the Smithsonian Institute and every jazz record library. It is a Hope Diamond for everyone to enjoy often. Gil Evans (1912-1988) was a giant, one of the two greatest arrangers in the ...

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Ryan Truesdell: Centennial - Newly Discovered Works of Gil Evans

by Dan McClenaghan
July 13, 2012

Ryan TruesdellCentennial: Newly Discovered Works of Gil EvansArtistShare2012Composer/arranger/pianist Gil Evans broke new ground in the arena of arranging in the late 1940s with the Claude Thornhill Orchestra, and the 1949-50 singles which later came out as the album Birth of the Cool (Columbia Records, 1957), made up of sessions with trumpeter Miles Davis. He went on the arrange the music for three more of Davis' extraordinary Columbia sets--Miles Ahead (1958), Porgy and ...

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Ryan Truesdell: Centennial - Newly Discovered Works Of Gil Evans

Read "Centennial - Newly Discovered Works Of Gil Evans" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
July 11, 2012

Pianist, band leader and composer Ian Ernest Gilmore Green, or as he is better know, Gil Evans, played an instrumental role in the development of free, modal, fusion and most of all, cool jazz. Evans numbers extensive collaborations with the great Miles Davis and arranging duties for the Claude Thornhill Orchestra in the 1940s among his many accomplishments.To mark the hundredth anniversary of Evans' birth date, 13 May 1912, producer and conductor Ryan Truesdell unveils Centennial: Newly Discovered ...

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Ryan Truesdell: Centennial - Newly Discovered Works Of Gil Evans

by Dan Bilawsky
July 1, 2012

Ryan TruesdellCentennial: Newly Discovered Works Of Gil EvansArtist Share2012Those who choose to focus their energy on arranging and composing rarely get the attention and praise that comes to their instrument-wielding counterparts, but the cream always manages to rise to the top and get noticed. Such was the case with the great Gil Evans. He expanded and experimented with the sonic color scheme of jazz during his time with the Claude Thornhill Orchestra, ...

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Ryan Truesdell: Centennial - Newly Discovered Works Of Gil Evans

Read "Centennial - Newly Discovered Works Of Gil Evans" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 14, 2012

Chi semina vento, raccoglie tempesta. Ma chi semina arte e genialità raccoglie amore e passione. Forse questa, in estrema sintesi è la morale dell'omaggio che Ryan Truesdell ha voluto dedicare all'arrangiatore canadese Gil Evans, uno degli artisti più importanti del secolo scorso. Geniale e umile allo stesso tempo, anticonformista e giovane fino alla fine, Gil è stato una delle più fulgide incarnazioni dello statement più famoso di Steve Jobs: 'keep looking, don't settle... stay hungry, stay foolish.'Negli ultimi ...