Jazz

Ryan Truesdell: Gil Evans and Shades of Sound

I love producers and performers who fall madly in love with legacy jazz artists and go the distance to pay tribute to them. I'm thinking of what producer-director Kristian St. Clair did with his 2006 ...
Wall Street Journal

‘Shades of Sound’ by Ryan Truesdell and the Gil Evans Project Review: A Jazz Arranger’s Artistry

There’s an upbeat and comical side to the blues, which comes out in the music of Louis Jordan. There’s a sophisticated and sensual side to the blues, which we hear in the singing of Nat King Cole and ...
Jazz

Gil Evans Remembered: Gil Evans Remembered (Live At The Cutting Room, NYC)

Few people have a better right to remember Gil Evans than these musicians. The serrated wail of this band enraptured, touched and torched the listeners. It is easy to see why musicians from the Monday ...
BroadwayWorld

Ryan Truesdell's Gil Evans Project Releases SHADES OF SOUND: Gil Evans Project Live At Jazz Standard, Vol. 2

Multi-Grammy Award-winning producer Ryan Truesdell reopens the Gil Evans Project vaults to release a new album of material recorded live at the beloved (now shuttered) New York City club, Jazz ...
BroadwayWorld

SHADES OF SOUND: Gil Evans Project Live at Jazz Standard, Vol. 2 at Birdland

Ryan Truesdell presents the Gil Evans Project in an exciting pre-release concert series at Birdland in New York City, celebrating the upcoming album Shades of Sound: Gil Evans Project Live at Jazz ...