Live at Sweet Basil
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| Live album by Gil Evans & The Monday Night Orchestra | ||||
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| Label (s) | Electric Bird, Gramavision Records | |||
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2 LP, 2 CD |
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Title (number) |
7th |
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running time |
01:11:31 |
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| occupation | 4th
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Horst Liepolt, Shigeyuki Kawashima |
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Studio (s) |
Sweet Basil, New York |
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Live at Sweet Basil is an album by Gil Evans & The Monday Night Orchestra . The recordings, which were recorded in the New York jazz club Sweet Basil on August 20 and 27, 1984, appeared on two CDs in 1984 or as a double album on the Japanese label King Records (or Electric Bird ), and in 1987 on Gramavision Records .
background
The pianist, arranger and band leader Gil Evans recorded a number of live albums with his Monday Night Orchestra in the early 1980s, starting with Live at the Public Theater (New York 1980) , Lunar Eclipse (1981), Priestess (1983). Since the beginning of 1983 he played with the band in Horst Liepolts Sweet Basil on Mondays . The band's performances were followed by busloads of European and Japanese tourists. The music was fresh and unpredictable, so Liepolt had it recorded for the Japanese label King Records on two consecutive Mondays in the second half of August 1984 .
Soloists were Howard Johnson (bass clarinet) and Lew Soloff (trumpet) in "Parabola", Hiram Bullock (guitar) and Howard Johnson (tuba) in "Voodoo Chile", George Adams (tenor saxophone) in "Orange Was the Color of Her Dress, Then Blue Silk ”, Lew Soloff in“ Prince of Darkness ”, Pete Levin (synthesizer), Howard Johnson (tuba) and Lew Soloff in“ Blues in C ”and Chris Hunter in“ Goodbye Pork Pie Hat ”.
Further live recordings from Sweet Basil followed in December 1986, Bud and Bird and Farewell , with whose mix Evans was extremely dissatisfied. Therefore, the albums were not available in North America until his death.
Track list
- Gil Evans & The Monday Night Orchestra: Live at Sweet Basil (Electric Bird - K23P 6355-6)
- Parabola ( Alan Shorter / Wayne Shorter ) 18:27
- Voodoo Chile ( Jimi Hendrix ) 7:16
- Orange Was the Color of Her Dress, Then Blue Silk ( Charles Mingus ) 6:03
- Prince of Darkness ( Herbie Hancock / Wayne Shorter) 5:49
- Blues in C (John's Memory / Cheryl / Bird Feathers / Relaxin 'at Camarillo) (Charlie Parker) 24:42
- Goodbye Pork Pie Hat (Mingus) 9:30
- Up from the Skies (Jimi Hendrix) 8:28
Editor's note
1986 followed the double album Gil Evans & The Monday Night Orchestra - Live at Sweet Basil Vol. 2 , with the titles "Jelly Roll", "Friday the 13th", "Gone", "Prelude to Stone Free", "Stone Free" and "Snowflake Bop", which were also recorded on August 20 and 27, 1984.
reception
Ron Wynn said in Allmusic , “The versions of Shorter's 'Parabola' and Hancock's 'Prince of Darkness' are multifaceted and can be compared to almost anything that has been done by Evans aggregations so far. It might not have been 'cool', but it was definitely great jazz. "
According to Simon Adams ( Jazz Journal ), Gil Evans was "looser than ever" at this late stage in his career; the author still finds the recording very appealing. Some of what happens in this set is pretty common, but it says everything about “that we always expected the extraordinary from him.” With this “normal” outfit, Gil had one of the best riff-emphasized big- Bands of his time founded, a modern basie orchestra with metronomic skills. In “Stone Free” the musicians around Evans had created a groove that worked like clockwork, supported the ensemble passages “and then acted quietly behind Howard Johnson's baritone solo, always reacting to his changes of direction and immediately ready to intervene with support or confirmation.” Adams says the musicians made everything seem effortless, but that control speaks volumes for their collective abilities. "I still claim that there was a magic about a live Gil Evans performance that few could match, and some of the magic is captured on this set."
According to Richard Cook and Brian Morton , who rated the album with three stars in their Penguin Guide to Jazz , Gil Evans' bands of the 1980s, especially the Monday Night Orchestra, played “music with an open texture that plays on oriented to melodic basic structures. They are inextricably linked to Miles' new concept, with its rock and pop themes, the deceptive order and the renewed blues orientation: "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stephanie Stein Crease Gil Evans: Out of the Cool: His Life and Music . A Cappella Books, Chicago 2002, pp. 304, 315.
- ↑ Stephanie Stein Crease Gil Evans: Out of the Cool: His Life and Music . A Cappella Books, Chicago 2002, pp. 316f.
- ↑ Gil Evans & The Monday Night Orchestra: Live at Sweet Basil at Discogs
- ↑ Gil Evans & The Monday Night Orchestra - Live At Sweet Basil Vol.2 at Discogs
- ^ Review of the album at Allmusic (English). Accessed January 1, 2020.
- ↑ Simon Adams: JJ 01/90: Gil Evans & The Monday Night Orchestra - Live At Sweet Basil. Jazz Journal, January 30, 2020, accessed February 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Richard Cook & Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD ; Second Edition, London, Penguin, 1993 ISBN 0-14-017949-6