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The Gil Evans Orchestra: Live At Fabrik
by Ian Patterson
By the time Gil Evans led the Gil Evans Orchestra at the Hamburg Jazz Festival in 1986, it had been holding down the Monday night slot at Sweet Basil for the previous three years. The majority of the GEO's regular musicians were with him for this performance at Fabrik, a 19th century machine-parts factory converted into a glass-roofed cultural centre in 1971. Not for nothing does the sixteen-piece ensemble sound so organically attuned—to the charts and to each other—on this ...
read moreThe Gil Evans Orchestra: Hidden Treasures Vol. 1, Monday Nights
by Jerome Wilson
In the '70s composer and arranger Gil Evans, after years of outstanding studio arranging for Miles Davis and others, put together a performing orchestra which took influences from the jazz-rock and fusion concepts of the time. That orchestra released several fine albums such as Svengali (Atlantic, 1973) and There Comes A Time (RCA, 1975) and, on Monday nights from 1983 to 1994, had a long-standing engagement at the New York club Sweet Basil. Evans' sons, Miles and Noah, have now ...
read moreThe Gil Evans Orchestra: Hidden Treasures Vol. 1, Monday Nights
by Chris Mosey
Gil Evans, the most innovative arranger in the history of jazz, died in 1988. He is remembered for his work with Miles Davis in the 1950s, starting with the ground-breaking album The Birth Of The Cool with a pianoless nonet, and peaking with Miles Ahead, in which he turned a collection of seemingly diverse songs into a concept album by expertly writing small linking passages to them. Hidden Treasures has been produced by his sons, Miles and ...
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