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ADD DATE- Looking at the article that I chose, there seems to be very little on Evans' life in general. Both his personal life and early life sections have very little information on them. The sources used as well have very little to no substance to them unfortunately. So, I'll most likely be focusing mainly on those

3.22.2019- FROM HEATHER: Wow, you made a lot of progress improving the "Personal Life" section. It looks good so far! You'll need to include sources for everything you have there. In case you forgot, here's how to do that: https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/training/students/sources/add-a-citation-continued. By 3/31, try to have that revised section moved on to the Gil Evans main page, okay?

4.4.2019- It looks like you moved this to the mainspace already. Hooray! Someone edited some of your language, but it's good! Nice work!

Sources I will use include:
Gil Evans: Out of the Cool: His Life and Music written by Stephanie Crease

Evans, Gil. An article published by the The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives (found in the Gale database)

http://go.galegroup.com.butte.idm.oclc.org/ps/retrieve.do?tabID=Biographies&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&searchResultsType=MultiTab&searchType=PersonSearchForm&currentPosition=3&docId=GALE%7CCX2874500158&docType=Biography&sort=Relevance&contentSegment=&prodId=BIC&contentSet=GALE%7CCX2874500158&searchId=R1&userGroupName=orov49112&inPS=true

https://www.allmusic.com/artist/gil-evans-mn0000551815/awards

An award that the wikipedia article did not list is on this. Thus, this will also be used

https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/gil-evans

I feel like adding the awards that Evans was nominated for, and the website for the Grammy's has records of what he was nominated for

http://canadianmusichalloffame.ca/inductee/gil-evans/

Since this was also not mentioned

I'll be on the lookout for more citations to use

Changes that will be made:

Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, his name was changed early on from Green to Evans, the name of his stepfather. His family moved to Stockton, California, where he spent most of his youth. After 1946, he lived and worked primarily in New York City, living for many years at Westbeth Artists Community.

Revision

Originally born Ian Ernest Gilmore Green, Evans would come to change his name from Green to Evans, taking the name of his step-father. Evans was born to Ian Ernest Green and Margaret Julia McConnachy. His father was a doctor and his mother was a homemaker. He also had two siblings; his siblings being Jean and Montgomery. At an early age, Evans moved to multiple different places; from his place of birth in Toronto to western Canada, then to Washington State before finally settling in Stockton, California. He attended Stockton High School and Modesto Junior College, graduating from each. Evans remained a citizen of Canada until he entered into the US army during the second World War, thus granting him American citizenship. Eventually, Evans moved from to New York City, where most of his career took place. (this will go for early life section).

Evans married twice in his life, to Lillian Grace and to Anita Cooper. Very little is known about his first marriage. His marriage with Anita Cooper in 1963 gave him two sons, Noah and Miles.

In 1988, Evans had surgery for his prostate. Afterwards, he would travel to Mexico, where he would recover from the surgery, but would contract peritonitis and die soon after in Cuernavaca.

Awards:

1997: Inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame

2012: How About You (Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement)

Nominations:

1961: Out of the Cool (Best Jazz Performance)

1962: Miles Davis at Carnegie Hall (Best Jazz Performance)

1964: The Individualism of Gil Evans (Best Instrumental Jazz Performance)

1964: Quiet Nights (Best Instrumental Jazz Performance)

1965: Greensleeves [Single] (Best Arrangement)

1965: Kenny Burrell/Guitar Forms (Best Instrumental Jazz Performance)

1973: Svengali [Album] (Best Jazz Performance)

1983: Priestess [Album] (Best Jazz Instrumental Performance)

2012: Look to the Rainbow (Best Instrumental Arrangement)