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Gil Evans (Ian Ernest Gilmore Green) was born May 13, 1912, in Toronto, Canada, to Margaret Julia McConnachy; his father died before he was born. As a child, Evans and his mother moved frequently throughout the Pacific Northwest, where his mother got work as a cook in logging and mining camps in British Columbia, then in the U.S. in Idaho, Montana and Washington. She married a miner John Evans, and the family settled in California when Gil was about 8 years old. Gil attended junior high school in Berkeley. It was there that he received informal piano lessons from a friend’s father, an avid jazz fan. From here on, Gil’s interest in music grew. |
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