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Geoffrey Smith's Jazz

Music: Jazz & Blues

Geoffrey Smith's Jazz - a weekly sequence exploring what makes great jazz great music

Geoffrey Smith's Jazz does exactly what it says on the tin: a weekly selection of tracks through which Geoffrey Smith shares his passion for jazz from a personal perspective

Geoffrey Smith's Jazz: Gil Evans

Gil Evans

12/05/2013

BBC Radio 3 - Geoffrey Smith's Jazz, Gil Evans

Geoffrey Smith picks personal favourites from arranger-composer Gil Evans's work.

Geoffrey Smith picks personal favourites from arranger-composer Gil Evans's work, including his classic collaborations with Miles Davis and works he created under his own name.

To Miles Davis, Gil Evans was "hipper than hip", a profoundly original arranger-composer whose sumptuous impressionism influenced the whole of post-war jazz. In a programme first heard in 2013, Geoffrey Smith picks some personal favourites from the rich array of Evans's work, including his classic collaborations with Davis and the evocative masterpieces he created under his own name.

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