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Farewell (Gil Evans album)

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Released
  
1992

Length
  
62:02

Artist
  
Gil Evans

Genre
  
Jazz

Venue
  
Sweet Basil, NYC

Label
  
Evidence ECD 22031-2

Release date
  
1988

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Recorded
  
December 1 and 22, 1986

Producer
  
Horst Liepolt & Shigeyuki Kawashima

Similar
  
Gil Evans albums, Jazz albums

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Farewell is a live album by jazz composer, arranger, conductor and pianist Gil Evans recorded by King Records (Japan) in New York in 1986 featuring Evans with his Monday Night Orchestra which included Hamiet Bluiett, Bill Evans, and Johnny Coles and originally released in the US on the Evidence label.

Contents

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars stating "The Gil Evans Monday Night orchestra ripped through the four cuts on this '86 session, often at a torrid pace. Even when they slowed things down, the solos were often done at fever-pitch levels".

Track listing

All compositions by Gil Evans except where noted.

  1. "Let the Juice Loose" (Bill Evans) - 12:01
  2. "Your Number" - 14:12
  3. "Waltz" - 19:55
  4. "Little Wing" (Jimi Hendrix) - 15:54
  • Recorded at Sweet Basil in NYC on December 1, 1986 (track 3) and December 22, 1986 (tracks 1, 2 & 4)
  • Personnel

  • Gil Evans - piano, electric piano, arranger, conductor
  • Lew Soloff, Shunzo O'no, Miles Evans - trumpet
  • Johnny Coles - flugelhorn (track 1)
  • Dave Bargeron - trombone
  • Dave Taylor - bass trombone
  • John Clark - French horn, hornette
  • Chris Hunter - alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute
  • Bill Evans - tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute
  • Hamiet Bluiett - baritone saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet
  • Hiram Bullock - guitar
  • Pete Levin, Gil Goldstein - keyboards
  • Mark Egan - electric bass
  • Danny Gottlieb - drums
  • References

    Farewell (Gil Evans album) Wikipedia