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Live at Sweet Basil (Gil Evans album)

1985 live album by Gil Evans & the Monday Night Orchestra From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Live at Sweet Basil (Gil Evans album)
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Live at Sweet Basil is a live album by jazz composer, arranger, conductor and pianist Gil Evans, and recorded by King Records (Japan) in New York in 1984. It featured Evans with his Monday Night Orchestra, which included George Adams, Howard Johnson, and Lew Soloff. The album was originally released in the US on the Gramavision label.[1]

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Background

Gil Evans' Monday night marathon sessions at "Sweet Basil Jazz Club" was originally a started as a workshop in April 1983, to select players and do rehearsals for preparing his Japan tour in May. As the performance at the workshop got attentions and had good reputation, the club asked Gil to continue the stage periodically on Monday from June, after the Japan tour.[2]

Reception

AllMusic awarded the album 2 stars, stating, "It may not have been "cool," but it was most assuredly great jazz".[3]

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Track listing

  1. "Parabola" (Alan Shorter) - 18:40
  2. "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" (Jimi Hendrix) - 7:21
  3. "Orange Was the Color of Her Dress, Then Silk Blue" (Charles Mingus) - 6:15
  4. "Prince of Darkness" (Herbie Hancock) - 5:50
  5. "Blues in "C": John's Memory/Cheryl/Bird Feathers/Relaxin' at Camarillo" (Charlie Parker) - 24:42
  6. "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" (Mingus) - 9:30 Omitted from CD reissue
  7. "Up from the Skies" (Hendrix) - 8:39

Personnel

References

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