Jazz Articles about Gil Evans Remembered

Gil Evans Remembered: Gil Evans Remembered (Live At The Cutting Room, NYC)

by Jack Kenny
November 26, 2024

Few people have a better right to remember Gil Evans than these musicians. The serrated wail of this band enraptured, touched and torched the listeners. It is easy to see why musicians from the Monday Night Band would want to play, creating under Evans' beatific musical vision. It must have been inspiring. Most of the musicians on the album played sometime over the years at Sweet Basil from 1983 to Evans' death and even beyond. He loved the way that ...