Live at Sweet Basil (Gil Evans album)

Live at Sweet Basil
Live album by Gil Evans & the Monday Night Orchestra
Released 1986
Recorded August 20 & 27, 1984 at Sweet Basil, NYC
Genre Jazz
Length 71:27
Label Gramavision 18-8610-1
Producer Horst Liepolt & Shigeyuki Kawashima
Gil Evans chronology

Take Me to the Sun
(1983)
Live at Sweet Basil
(1984)
Live at Sweet Basil Vol. 2
(1985)

Live Sweet Basil is a live album by jazz composer, arranger, conductor and pianist Gil Evans recorded by King Records (Japan) in New York in 1984 featuring 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]

Reception

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

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [2]

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

  1. Discogs album entry accessed June 17, 2014.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Wynn, R., Allmusic Review accessed June 17, 2014.