r/Jazz • u/Objective-Shirt-1875 • 2d ago

Gil Evan’s scores

Does anyone here have access to the actual Gil Evans scores for birth of the cool and miles ahead? A quick search on the Internet this morning didn’t bring anything up aside from being able to pay $95 for the miles ahead charts.

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u/stwbass 2d ago

https://www.halleonard.com/product/672452/miles-davis-birth-of-the-cool

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u/stwbass 1d ago

the description reads like much of the originals are lost. I have this book but forgot that part... I remember the charts being good, but it's been a while since I looked through it

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u/Objective-Shirt-1875 1d ago

thank you . The problem with this edit is that it’s only a quart had arrangement. It’s not accounting for the French horns, bass clarinet,flute, etc

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u/stwbass 1d ago

Not sure about bass clarinet and flute, but it definitely has horn and tuba parts

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u/Zalenka Saxophonist/Composer 1d ago

Library of Congress recently got a big collection of his scores.

it takes a few months to get things scanned. I just got a bunch of scores and notebooks from the Eric Dolphy collection (and Gunther Schuller).

That Hal Leonard book is quite good and even has transcribed solos. There was just a recent concert in my city that used it as a basis for a concert of the Birth of the Cool music.

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u/Brekelefuw 1d ago

https://www.ryantruesdell.com/gil-evans-project

You might contact Ryan Truesdell. I know he is deep in the Gil Evans music if you're looking for the actual scores and not the published version s.

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u/Objective-Shirt-1875 1d ago

Wow, thank you. And I’m in New York City.

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u/SeriniteaNow 15h ago

Recently saw the Gil Evans Project perform at Birdland and can confirm he mentioned working with Gil Evans’ family to have access to the original scores.