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The Complete Pacific Jazz Sessions

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: St. Louis Blues; King Porter Stomp; Willow Tree; Struttin' with Some Barbecue; Lester Leaps In; 'Round Midnight; Manteca; Bird Feathers; Davenport Blues; Straight No Chaser; Ballad of the Sad Young Men; Joy Spring; Django; Chant of the Weed; La Nevada (Theme).

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Gil Evans: The Complete Pacific Jazz Sessions

Read "The Complete Pacific Jazz Sessions" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
March 2, 2007

How do you summarize the history of jazz on a couple records? Ask Gil Evans. His two records New Bottle Old Wine (1958) and Great Jazz Standards (1959), originally released on World Pacific, have been reissued on one CD entitled The Complete Pacific Jazz Sessions. Each of the fifteen tracks is a chapter in the music's ...

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The Complete Pacific Jazz Sessions

By Gil Evans

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: St Louis Blues; King Porter Stomp; Willow Tree; Struttin' With Some Barbecue; Lester Leaps In; Round Midnight; Manteca; Bird Feathers; Davenport Blues; Straight No Chaser; Ballad Of The Sad Young Men; Joy Spring; Django; Chant Of The Weed; La Nevada (aka Theme).

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Gil Evans: The Complete Pacific Jazz Sessions

Read "The Complete Pacific Jazz Sessions" reviewed by Greg Camphire

by Greg Camphire
October 15, 2006

While perhaps best remembered for his landmark Miles Davis collaborations, arranger/bandleader/pianist Gil Evans' work with his own ensembles is notable in its own right. This reissue of The Complete Pacific Jazz Sessions combines two crucial Evans albums from 1958 and 1959: New Bottle, Old Wine and Great Jazz Standards. The fifteen overall performances capture Evans' expansive ...

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Gil Evans: The Complete Pacific Jazz Sessions

Read "The Complete Pacific Jazz Sessions" reviewed by Norman Weinstein

by Norman Weinstein
June 20, 2006

"Complete" in this case refers to two LPs worth of primo early Gil Evans.The first LP on this disc answers the question of what would have happened if Evans had written a concerto for anyone other than Miles Davis. “New Bottle, Old Wine" is a version of the “Miles Ahead" concerto concept for Cannonball Adderley. And ...

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Gil Evans: The Complete Pacific Jazz Sessions

Read "The Complete Pacific Jazz Sessions" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
June 15, 2006

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) ...