Live at Sweet Basil (Gil Evans album)

Live at Sweet Basil
Live album by
Gil Evans & the Monday Night Orchestra
Released1985
RecordedAugust 20 & 27, 1984
VenueSweet Basil, NYC
GenreJazz
Length71:27
Label
ProducerHorst Liepolt & Shigeyuki Kawashima
Gil Evans chronology
British Orchestra
(1983) 		Live at Sweet Basil
(1985) 		Live at Sweet Basil Vol. 2
(1987)

Live 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 and originally released in the US on the Gramavision label.[1]

Background

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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

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

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[3]

Track listing

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  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

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References

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  1. ^ Discogs album entry accessed June 17, 2014.
  2. ^ Nakayama, Yasuki (2018). "ギル・エヴァンスのマンディ・ナイト・セッション" [Gil Evans' Monday night sessions]. スイングジャーナル時代の中山康樹 [Yasuki Nakayama in "Swing Journal" era] (in Japanese). Tokyo, Japan: Shinko Music Entertainment. pp. 68–78.
  3. ^ a b Wynn, R., Allmusic Review accessed June 17, 2014.
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