Great Jazz Standards (Tone Poet Vinyl)

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Release Date: 5th May 2023
Catalogue No: 3856836
Label: Blue Note
Series: Tone Poet Vinyl
Length: 36 minutes

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Beiderbecke: Davenport Blues

Work length4:27

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The Gil Evans Orchestra, Gil Evans (piano), Dick Carter (bass), Denis Charles (drums), Bob Northern (french horn), Chuck Wayne (guitar), Bill Elton (trombone), Curtis Fuller (trombone), Dick Lieb (trombone), Allen Smith (trumpet), Al Block (woodwinds)
Gil Evans
Recorded: 1959-01

Monk, T: Straight, No Chaser

Work length6:19

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The Gil Evans Orchestra, Gil Evans (piano), Dick Carter (bass), Denis Charles (drums), Bob Northern (french horn), Chuck Wayne (guitar), Bill Elton (trombone), Curtis Fuller (trombone), Dick Lieb (trombone), Allen Smith (trumpet), Al Block (woodwinds)
Gil Evans
Recorded: 1959-01

Fran Landesman, Tommy Wolf: Ballad Of The Sad Young Men

Work length4:00

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The Gil Evans Orchestra, Gil Evans (piano), Tommy Potter (bass), Elvin Jones (drums), Earl Chapin (french horn), Budd Johnson (tenor saxophone), Jimmy Cleveland (trombone), Rod Levitt (trombone), Danny Stiles (trumpet)
Gil Evans
Recorded: 1959-02-05

Clifford Brown: Joy Spring

Work length2:48

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The Gil Evans Orchestra, Gil Evans (piano), Tommy Potter (bass), Elvin Jones (drums), Earl Chapin (french horn), Budd Johnson (tenor saxophone), Jimmy Cleveland (trombone), Rod Levitt (trombone), Danny Stiles (trumpet)
Gil Evans
Recorded: 1959-02-05

Lewis, John: Django

Work length8:05

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The Gil Evans Orchestra, Gil Evans (piano), Dick Carter (bass), Dennis Charles (drums), Bob Northern (french horn), Chuck Wayne (guitar), Al Block (woodwinds), Allen Smith (trumpet)
Gil Evans
Recorded: 1959-01

Don Redman: Chant Of The Weed

Work length4:26

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The Gil Evans Orchestra, Gil Evans (piano), Tommy Potter (bass), Elvin Jones (drums), Eddie Caine (woodwinds), Danny Stiles (trumpet), Bill Barber (tuba)
Gil Evans
Recorded: 1959-02-05

Evans, G: La Nevada (Theme)

Work length6:18

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The Gil Evans Orchestra, Gil Evans (piano), Tommy Potter (bass), Elvin Jones (drums), Budd Johnson (tenor saxophone), Bill Barber (tuba), Eddie Caine (woodwinds), Danny Stiles (trumpet)
Gil Evans
Recorded: 1959-02-05

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The brilliant arranger, composer, and pianist Gil Evans had already collaborated with Miles Davis on Birth of the Cool and Miles Ahead and made his own debut album Gil Evans & Ten for Prestige when he signed with World Pacific Records in 1958 and made the first of two albums for the label: New Bottle Old Wine with featured soloist Cannonball Adderley. The next year Evans was back in the studio to record the follow-up Great Jazz Standards with two different ensembles featuring the likes of trumpeter Johnny Coles, trombonists Curtis Fuller and Jimmy Cleveland, soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy, tenor saxophonist and clarinetist Budd Johnson, guitarist Ray Crawford, drummer Elvin Jones, and others. As the title promises, the album presents a program of great jazz standards leading off with Bix Beiderbecke’s “Davenport Blues,” a showcase for Coles, before launching into a shimmering version of Thelonious Monk’s “Straight No Chaser” where Coles, Lacy, Fuller, and Evans all get the spotlight. A stunning presentation of Fran Landesman and Tommy Wolf’s “Ballad of the Sad Young Men” and a no-nonsense take on Clifford Brown’s “Joy Spring” close out the first side. On the flipside, John Lewis’ “Django” gets an impressionistic arrangement full of surprises, while a modernistic version of Don Redman’s “Chant of the Weed” is a solo vehicle for Johnson’s clarinet. The album culminates with a soaring performance of the Evans original “Theme,” later known as “La Nevada.”

This stereo Tone Poet Vinyl Edition was produced by Joe Harley, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original analog master tapes, pressed on 180g vinyl at RTI, and packaged in a deluxe tip-on jacket.

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