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Great Jazz Standards

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Released
  
September 1959

Artist
  
Gil Evans

Producer
  
Richard Bock

Genre
  
Jazz

Great Jazz Standards (1959)
  
Out of the Cool (1961)

Release date
  
September 1959

Label
  
Pacific Jazz

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Recorded
  
Early 1959 New York City

Similar
  
Gil Evans albums, Jazz albums

Great Jazz Standards is an album by jazz composer, arranger, conductor and pianist Gil Evans recorded in 1959 by Evans with an orchestra featuring Johnny Coles, Steve Lacy, Curtis Fuller, Jimmy Cleveland, Budd Johnson, Ray Crawford, and Elvin Jones.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars calling it "Highly recommended".

Track listing

  1. "Davenport Blues" (Bix Beiderbecke) - 4:26
  2. "Straight, No Chaser" (Thelonious Monk) - 6:19
  3. "Ballad of the Sad Young Men" (Fran Landesman, Tommy Wolf) - 4:00
  4. "Joy Spring" (Clifford Brown) - 2:48
  5. "Django" (John Lewis) - 8:06
  6. "Chant Of The Weed" (Don Redman) - 4:25
  7. "La Nevada" [a.k.a. "Theme"] (Gil Evans) - 6:17

Recorded on February 5, 1959 (tracks 3, 4, 6 & 7) and early 1959 (tracks 1, 2 & 5)

Personnel

  • Gil Evans - piano, arranger, conductor
  • Johnny Coles, Louis Mucci, Allen Smith (tracks 1, 2 & 5), Danny Stiles (tracks 3, 4, 6 & 7) - trumpet
  • Curtis Fuller, Bill Elton (tracks 1, 2 & 5), Dick Lieb (tracks 1, 2 & 5), Jimmy Cleveland (tracks 3, 4, 6 & 7), Rod Levitt (tracks 3, 4, 6 & 7) - trombone
  • Bob Northern (tracks 1, 2 & 5), Earl Chapin (tracks 3, 4, 6 & 7) - french horn
  • Bill Barber - tuba
  • Steve Lacy - soprano saxophone
  • Budd Johnson - clarinet, tenor saxophone (tracks 3, 4, 6 & 7)
  • Al Block (tracks 1, 2 & 5), Ed Caine (tracks 3, 4, 6 & 7) - reeds
  • Chuck Wayne (tracks 1, 2 & 5), Ray Crawford (tracks 3, 4, 6 & 7) - guitar
  • Dick Carter (tracks 1, 2 & 5), Tommy Potter (tracks 3, 4, 6 & 7) - bass
  • Dennis Charles (tracks 1, 2 & 5), Elvin Jones (tracks 3, 4, 6 & 7) - drums

    • Songs

    1Davenport Blues4:25
    2Straight - no Chaser6:19
    3Ballad of the Sad Young Men4:00

    References

    Great Jazz Standards Wikipedia
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