Farewell (Gil Evans album)

Farewell
Live album by Gil Evans & the Monday Night Orchestra
Released 1992
Recorded December 1 and 22, 1986 at Sweet Basil, NYC
Genre Jazz
Length 62:02
Label Evidence ECD 22031-2
Producer Horst Liepolt & Shigeyuki Kawashima
Gil Evans chronology
Bud and Bird
(1986)
Farewell
(1986)
Live at Umbria Jazz 1987
(1987)

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.[1]

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".[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Gil Evans except as indicated

  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

Personnel

References

  1. Discogs album entry accessed June 17, 2014.
  2. 1 2 Wynn, R., Allmusic Review accessed June 17, 2014.
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