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Blues in Orbit (Gil Evans album)

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Released
  
1971

Producer
  
Sam Gordon

Release date
  
1971

Genre
  
Jazz

Length
  
36:20

Artist
  
The Gil Evans Orchestra

Label
  
Enja Records

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Recorded
  
1969 and 1971, New York City

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Blues in Orbit is an album by jazz composer, arranger, conductor and pianist Gil Evans, recorded in 1969 and 1971 by Evans with an orchestra featuring Jimmy Cleveland, Howard Johnson, Billy Harper, and Joe Beck. The album was originally released on the short-lived Ampex label as Gil Evans but received wider release on the Enja label under this title.

Contents

Blues in orbit


Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4½ stars stating "Arranger Gil Evans's first recording as a leader in five years found him leading an orchestra that could be considered a transition between his 1950s groups and his somewhat electric band of the 1970s... A near-classic release ".

Track listing

All compositions by Gil Evans except as indicated

  1. "Thoroughbred" (Billy Harper) - 4:57
  2. "Spaced" - 3:04
  3. "Love In the Open" (Warren Smith) - 6:49
  4. "Variation on the Misery" - 3:03
  5. "Blues In Orbit" (George Russell) - 6:49
  6. "Proclamation" - 1:48
  7. "General Assembly" (Miles Davis, Gil Evans) - 7:12
  8. "So Long" - 2:27
  • Recorded in New York in 1969 (tracks 2-4 & 6-8) and 1971 (tracks 1 & 5)

    • Personnel

  • Gil Evans - piano, electric piano, arranger, conductor
  • Johnny Coles (tracks 1 & 5), Mike Lawrence (tracks 2-4 & 6-8), Ernie Royal (tracks 1 & 5), Snooky Young (tracks 2-4 & 6-8) - trumpet
  • Garnett Brown (tracks 1 & 5), Jimmy Cleveland, Jimmy Knepper (tracks 2-4 & 6-8) - trombone
  • Ray Alonge (tracks 1 & 5), Julius Watkins (tracks 2-4 & 6-8) - French horn
  • Howard Johnson - tuba, baritone saxophone
  • Hubert Laws - flute (tracks 2-4 & 6-8)
  • Billy Harper - tenor saxophone
  • George Marge - flute, tenor saxophone (tracks 1 & 5)
  • Joe Beck - guitar (tracks 2-4 & 6-8)
  • Gene Bianco - harp
  • Herb Bushler - bass
  • Elvin Jones (tracks 2-4 & 6-8), Alphonse Mouzon (tracks 1 & 5) - drums
  • Sue Evans, Donald McDonald - percussion

    • Songs

    1Thoroughbred5:02
    2Spaced3:10
    3Love in the Open6:50

    References

    Blues in Orbit (Gil Evans album) Wikipedia
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