In October 1960, composer-arranger Gil Evans took a large band into the Jazz Gallery, a New York club that had opened earlier in the year at 80 St. Marks Place. It would be a six-week run, culminating in Evans's November recording of Out of the Cool, one of the first six albums produced by Creed Taylor for his new Impulse! Records. Playing guitar in the…
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