Jazz
Tracks # 1, 4, 7, and 10 recorded 1960 by Creed Taylor
Tracks # 2, 6, 9, and 11 recorded November 1957 by Irv Greenbaum
Tracks # 3, 5, and 8 recorded February 1957
Johnny Coles Trumpet
Don Elliott Trumpet, Mellophone, Percussion
Phil Sunkel Trumpet
Keg Johnson Trombone
Jimmy Knepper Trombone
Tony Studd Bass Trombone
Bill Barber Tuba
Eddie Caine Bassoon, Flute, Piccolo
Budd Johnson Bassoon, Flute, Piccolo
Bob Tricarico Bassoon, Flute, Piccolo
Ray Crawford Guitar
Ron Carter Bass
Elvin Jones Percussion
Charlie Persip Drums
Marcy Lutes Vocal
In 1960, Gil Evans assembled, for the first time in his mature career, a big band that functioned outside of the recording studio. That autumn, Evans' orchestra played for six weeks at the Jazz Gallery in Manhattan; it then made a watershed album, Out of the Cool. This recording set the stage for the last quarter-century of Evans' career.
However promising this band was, it did not survive. But until his death in 1988, Evans continued his musical odyssey. Though he and Miles Davis remained close friends, their musical partnership gradually petered out. Evans produced a few more recorded masterworks on his own, and throughout the last two decades of his life he maintained a band whose repertoire ranged from Charlie Parker to Jimi Hendrix. Gil Evans is, overall, one of the most highly regarded writers in jazz history. The works heard on this disc are a vital part of his recorded legacy. |
