Live at Sweet Basil Vol. 2

Live at Sweet Basil Vol. 2
Live album by Gil Evans & the Monday Night Orchestra
Released 1987
Recorded August 27, 1984 at Sweet Basil, NYC
Genre Jazz
Length 74:46
Label Gramavision 18-8708-1
Producer Horst Liepolt & Shigeyuki Kawashima
Gil Evans chronology
Live at Sweet Basil
(1984)
Live at Sweet Basil Vol. 2
(1984)
The Mother of the Book
(1985)

Live Sweet Basil Vol. 2 is a live album by jazz composer, arranger, conductor and pianist Gil Evans recorded by King Records (Japan) in New York in 1984 featuring Evans with his Monday Night Orchestra which included George Adams, Howard Johnson, and Lew Soloff and originally released in the US on the Gramavision label.[1]

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 2 stars stating " Although arranger/keyboardist Gil Evans is the leader of the 14-piece band, he has a very minor presence on the set, letting his talented sidemen get self-indulgent and take seemingly endless solos. Because the supporting cast includes such fine players... This is a lesser effort that should have been a memorable one".[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Gil Evans except as indicated

  1. "Jelly Roll" - 11:15
  2. "Friday the 13th" (Thelonious Monk) - 13:44
  3. "Gone" – 16:00
  4. "Prelude to Stone Free" - 8:42
  5. "Stone Free" (Jimi Hendrix) - 14:00
  6. "Snowflake Bop" (Anita Evans) - 16:58

Personnel

References

  1. Discogs album entry accessed June 17, 2014.
  2. 1 2 Yanow, S., Allmusic Review accessed June 17, 2014.
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