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

• Gil Evans - piano, electric piano, arranger, conductor
• Lew Soloff, Hannibal Marvin Peterson, Shunzo O'no, Miles Evans - trumpet
• George Adams - tenor saxophone
• Chris Hunter - alto saxophone
• Howard Johnson - tuba, baritone saxophone, bass clarinet
• Tom Malone - trombone
• Hiram Bullock - guitar
• Pete Levin - synthesizer
• Mark Egan - electric bass
• Adam Nussbaum - drums
• Mino Cinelu - percussion

References