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Gil Evans: The Complete Pacific Jazz Sessions
by Chris May
If Stan Kenton's ponderous Sophisticated Approach (1961) showed how little jazz it is possible to make with an orchestra the size of Texas, Gil Evans' The Complete Pacific Jazz Sessions shows how much more you can make with a lot less. The CD brings together two collections of brilliantly reimagined standards, New Bottle, Old Wine (1958) ...
Joe Wilder: A True Living Legend
by Greg Thomas
Joe Wilder, a true living legend of the trumpet, is at long last getting what fellow brass great Roy Eldridge used to call “his screen credits . After 60+ years of superlative support work in big bands, Broadway pit orchestras and commercials, Wilder is finally headlining his own quartet at the Village Vanguard. ...
Gil Evans-Out of the Cool: His Life and Music
by R.J. DeLuke
Gil Evans-Out of the Cool Stephanie Stein Crease A Cappella Books ISBN: 1-55652-425-0 A new, welcome book on the life of the great arranger and musical ideologist Gil Evans provides a portrayal of a multi-faceted man, both professionally and personally. While magazine articles and items found in the ...
A Casual Stroll Down The Free Jazz / Avant Garde Avenue
by AAJ Staff
Since most of the readers of this column who write to me seem to be rather at home with the Swing and Be Bop or Hard Bop and Cool Jazz eras, I have been meaning to write a piece on Free Jazz and its slightly sterner-miened cousin Avant-Garde. There can be hardly a doubt that reactions ...
Dave Douglas: Brave New World
by AAJ Staff
Trumpeter / composer Dave Douglas has been creating new worlds for listeners for the past decade. His ethereal writing style for unconventional configurations transports audiences into unfamiliar territory. These distinctive compositions combined with his astonishing technique and expressionist improvisations have brought him critical and public acclaim as a visionary of his generation. The diversity of his ...
Meet Terri Lyne Carrington
by Craig Jolley
Drummer/composer Terri Lyne Carrington found her voice early. Unlike other child prodigies, she was not transfixed by her early success and has continued to grow musically. Besides her brilliance as a drummer she is now established as a bandleader and producer. She records and tours with Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and many others. New ...
Live at Umbria Jazz - Vol. I
By Gil Evans
Label: Egea Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: 01. Up From The Skies (Jimi Hendrix) 09:30
02. Orange Was The
Colour Of Her Dress... (Charles Mingus) 08:31
03. Subway (Peter
Levin) 13:40
04. Orgone (Gil Evans) 11:17
05. Sometimes (Delmar
Brown) 07:46
06. Bud & Bird (Gil Evans) 19:30
Gil Evans Orchestra: Live at Umbria Jazz - Vol. I
by Maurizio Comandini
Summer 1987; Italy's heartland, Umbria; torrid heat. Perugia, as usual, was the location of the most popular Italian Jazz Festival. On Saturday, July 11th, the Gil Evans Orchestra is scheduled to perform at the Curi soccer stadium, together with the pop icon Sting as guest vocalist. The media attention for this event is reflected by the ...
The Jazz Giants Play Cole Porter- Night And Day
By Zoot Sims
Label: Prestige Records
Released: 1998
Track listing: Dream Dancing;
Just One Of Those Things;
You'd Be So Nice To Come Home;
Love For Sale;
All Of You;
Night And Day;
I Love Paris;
I've Got You Under My Skin;
Begin The Begine;
I Love You;
Easy To Love;
Ev'ry Time I Say Goodbye; From This Moment On.
