New bottle, old wine
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New Bottle, Old Wine - The Great Jazz Composers Interpreted by Gil Evans and His Orchestra - so the full title - is a jazz album by Gil Evans . It was recorded on April 9, May 2 and May 26, 1958 in New York City and released on Pacific Jazz Records .
The album
After Gil Evans and Ten , which was released by Prestige in 1957 , New Bottle, Old Wine was the second album by the band leader, arranger, composer and pianist Gil Evans under his own name. The sessions came about after George Avakian left his post as A&R director at Columbia Records for health reasons and entered into a business partnership with West Coast producer Richard Bock , who owned the World Pacific Records label . Avakian became the producer of his Pacific Jazz New Series sub-label and reached out to Gil Evans, who told him he had some musical ideas along the lines of Miles Ahead . With the album Evans wanted to highlight the young alto saxophonist Cannonball Adderley , who was just becoming known as a musician in the Miles Davis sextet at the time. On this album, Evans presented his favorite composers and musicians in their own arrangements. He wrote arrangements for three trumpets, three trombones, french horn and tuba; Cannonball, two other woodwinds and guitar, double bass and drums complete the fourteen-piece ensemble.
The album moves chronologically from WC Handy and Jelly Roll Morton to Fats Waller Louis Armstrong , Lester Young to the newer Thelonious Monk , Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker .
Evans adapted his arrangements in particular to the playing style of his soloist Cannonball Adderley, "his warm sound, his bop-oriented, cascading improvisations and his tireless energy". He created the transition from Monks ' Round Midnight to Gillespie's Manteca as a suite, the latter reminiscent of Gillespie's big band of the late 1940s. Gil Evans' arrangement of Parker's Bird Feathers begins with an introduction played in unison by a flute, a stuffed trumpet and a broom .
Evans biographer Stephanie Stein Crease points out that “The cheerful mood contrasts sharply with the seething beauty of Miles Ahead . The rhythm section - bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Art Blakey or Philly Joe Jones - deliver a powerful swing in the medium-paced and fast numbers. "
reception
In Allmusic gave Scott Yanow the album 4½ stars and stated: "This is near-classic musicthat Showed did Gil Evans did not need Miles Davis as a soloist to inspire him to greatness."
Gerald Lascelles ( Jazz Journal ) wrote in 1959: “For a man who grew up in California, Evans is remarkably unaffected by Kenton School and its dangerous tributaries. He has carefully selected his soloists and tailored the music you can hear to their work. It seems to have the same poetic, slightly capricious note that encompasses much of Ellington's contemporary writing, although it is not endowed with the same originality. ”Lascelles criticizes Evans' inability to skillfully complete his passages; he also criticized his soloists, especially Cannonball Adderley and Frank Rehak, from whom he received only a few outstanding impressions. On the other hand, he praises: “A seductive 'Willow Tree' and a crazy 'Midnight' are juxtaposed with fine brass works in 'Struttin' and 'Bird Feathers'. Perhaps the best interplay of the assembled masses is Gillespie's 'manteca'. ”According to Lascelles, this music cannot be ignored as long as it does not become stereotypical. With Gil at the helm, I doubt this will ever be the case. "
Edition history
The album was also released under the different titles Cannonball Adderley / Gil Evans - Roots (Pacific Jazz PJ 40, ST 40) and 1975 as a double LP under Gil Evans - Pacific Standard Time ( Blue Note BN-LA 461-H2, coupled with the follow-up album Great Jazz Standards ) 2006 was the edition The Complete Pacific Jazz Recordings by Gil Evans ; In 2011 the album was reissued in the Blue Note's Collector's Choice series in a limited edition.
Track list
- New Bottle, Old Wine (Pacific Jazz WP 1246, EMI CDP 746855-2, CP 32-5372)
- St. Louis Blues ( WC Handy ) - 5:26
- King Porter Stomp ( Jelly Roll Morton ) - 3:19
- Willow Tree ( Fats Waller , Andy Razaf ) - 4:40
- Struttin 'With Some Barbeque ( Lil Armstrong ) - 4:34
- Lester Leaps In ( Lester Young ) - 4:17
- 'Round Midnight ( Thelonious Monk ) - 4:08
- Manteca! ( Dizzy Gillespie , Gil Fuller , Babs Gonzales ) - 5:18
- Bird Feathers ( Charlie Parker ) - 6:57
- The tracks were recorded in New York City on April 9 (tracks 1, 2, 5 & 6), May 2 (track 3), May 21 (track 4) and May 26 (tracks 7 & 8), 1958.
literature
- Stephanie Stein Crease: Gil Evans: Out of the Cool - His life and Music. (2001, A Cappella Books, 384 pp. En)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stein Crease, p. 227 f.
- ↑ a b Stein Crease, p. 228.
- ↑ Review of Scott Yanow's album New Bottle Old Wine at Allmusic (English). Retrieved September 13, 2011.
- ↑ Gerald Lascelles: JJ 10/59: Gil Evans - New Bottle Old Wine. Jazz Journal, October 26, 2019, accessed October 28, 2019 .
- ^ Cannonball Adderley discography at jazzdisco.org