Aug 5, 2025 1:26 PM
For the Love of Gil Evans
“I originally set out to give two years of my life to Gil,” Ryan Truesdell said of his mindset in 2009, when he…
“I love the place that fate or whatever has positioned me in Gil Evans’ life and legacy,” said Ryan Truesdell.
Aug 5, 2025 1:26 PM
“I originally set out to give two years of my life to Gil,” Ryan Truesdell said of his mindset in 2009, when he…
“It locked together 20 years of all that I’ve been looking for,” Ryan Truesdell says of his compositional contribution to Synthesis: The String Quartet Sessions.
Aug 13, 2024 12:08 PM
For more than a decade, Ryan Truesdell has been winning acclaim by excavating the lesser-known gems of big-band…
Ryan Truesdell (left) and Jim McNeely give each other the Blindfold Test onstage at ISJAC 2022 in Austin, Texas.
Dec 6, 2022 12:46 PM
During this year’s International Society of Jazz Arrangers and Composers symposium in Austin, Texas, celebrated jazz…
The Gil Evans Project pays tribute to Sketches Of Spain in a recent video.
Aug 24, 2020 4:17 PM
Ryan Truesdell, the director and founder of the Gil Evans Project, is aiming to keep the members of his ensemble afloat…
Ryan Truesdell directs the Gil Evans Project during May performances at the Jazz Standard in New York.
Jun 4, 2018 2:56 PM
When Ryan Truesdell was asked to catalog the manuscripts of Gil Evans by the late arranger-composer’s family, the…
Ryan Truesdell (right) conducts the Gil Evans Project featuring Donny McCaslin (left) during the Elmhurst College Jazz Festival in Elmhurst, Illinois, on Feb. 26.
Mar 22, 2016 1:36 PM
For a small city, Elmhurst, Illinois, can accommodate some big jazz talent. That was certainly the case on Feb. 26,…
Aug 8, 2017 7:29 PM
