RYAN TRUESDELL PRESENTS GIL EVANS PROJECT

BIRDLAND / MAY 13-17

Multi-GRAMMY Award-winning producer Ryan Truesdell and the Gil Evans Project celebrate the release of Shades of Sound (Outside In Music) and many other Evans compositions at Birdland Jazz Club, 315 W. 44th Street. Their 14th annual residency begins on Gil’s 113th birthday, and continues through Saturday. When Ryan was asked to catalog the manuscripts by the late composer-arranger’s family, he did not realize that he would eventually be conducting a virtuoso big band devoted to playing Gil’s music. With this release, he has now recorded a trilogy of albums with a band playing the demanding and difficult charts. The week features some top brass and woodwind players, superb vocalists, and a rhythm section of pianist Gary Versace, bassist Jay Anderson, drummer Lewis Nash, and percussionist Mike Truesdell. DJS