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Golden Hair (album)

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Released
  
1989

Length
  
58:55

Producer
  
Laurent Cugny

Genre
  
Jazz

Label
  
EmArcy 838 773-2

Recorded
  
November 2, 3 & 26, 1987 at Studio Acousti, Paris

Golden Hair is an album by jazz composer, arranger, conductor and keyboardist Gil Evans recorded in 1987 and performed by Evans with Laurent Cugny's Big Band Lumiere.

Contents

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars.

Track listing

All compositions by Gil Evans except as indicated

  1. "Golden Hair" (Laurent Cugny) - 14:37
  2. "Orange Was the Color of Her Dress, Then Blue Silk" (Charles Mingus) - 11:06
  3. "Zee Zee" - 8:31
  4. "C Blues" - 8:13
  5. "Parabola" (Alan Shorter) - 10:00
  6. "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" (Mingus) - 6:28
  • Recorded at Studio Acousti in Paris on November 3 (tracks 1, 3 & 6) & November 26 (tracks 2, 4 & 5), 1987

    • Personnel

  • Gil Evans - piano, electric piano, arranger, conductor
  • Laurent Cugny - keyboards, arranger, conductor
  • Christian Martinez, Stéphane Belmondo, François Chassagnite - trumpet
  • Denis Barbier - flute
  • Bobby Rangell - alto saxophone, soprano saxophone
  • Pierre-Olivier Govin - alto saxophone
  • Andy Sheppard, Charles Schneider - tenor saxophone
  • Bernard François - French horn
  • Gilles Salommez - trombone
  • Philippe Legris - tuba
  • Manuel Rocheman - piano
  • Benoît de Mesmay - keyboards
  • Lionel Benhamou - guitar
  • Dominique Di Piazza - bass guitar
  • Stéphane Huchard - drums
  • Xavier Desandre, Marilyn Mazur - percussion

    • References

    Golden Hair (album) Wikipedia
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