|
The Individualism of Gil Evans
|
| Price: | $24.49 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Details |
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com
27 new or used available from $10.18
Average customer review:
Product Description
No Description Available
No Track Information Available
Media Type: CD
Artist: EVANS,GIL
Title: INDIVIDUALISM OF GIL EVANS
Street Release Date: 07/16/2001
Genre: JAZZ
Track Listing
- Time of the Barracudas [*]
- Barbara Song
- Vegas Tango
- Flute Song/Hotel Me
- Toreador
- Proclamation [*]
- Nothing Like You [#][*]
- Concorde [*]
- Spoonful [Unedited Version][#][*]
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #45204 in Music
- Brand: EVANS,GIL
- Released on: 1989-07-03
- Number of discs: 1
- Format: Import
- Dimensions: .21 pounds
Customer Reviews
Gil the Genius
If you like Gil Evans' work with Miles Davis, you'll like this. Some startling compositions -- 'Hotel Me' with its romping rhythm, the stunning 'Las Vegas Tango' -- and some splendid covers, Willie Dixon's 'Spoonful' (with the LP's edit cuts reinstated) and a beautifully funereal go at Kurt Weil's 'Barbara Song'. Listen especially to Elvin Jones' excellent drumming. A classic.
Quintessential Gil Evans
This album represents Gil Evans at the height of his creative expression. Gil Evans is an uncategorizable artist, perhaps because his style is neither exactly bop or cool jazz, but uniquely his own. This album while not a starter (that would be Out of the Cool)is still a serious contender. Lush and expressionistic, it has extra tracks culled from out of print albums or unreleased matter. From the collaborator of Sketches of Spain, this is as the title says, very uniquely one of his solo masterpieces.
I could have lived without the "filler"...
Well, sometimes, the old ways are best. Some times, picking what fits on an LP forces choices that really prove to be wise. The extra, "lost" songs that were rescued from the tape vaults or from other oddball LPs don't, in my opinion, add much to a pure, utter classic LP, per its initial incarnation. I would love a disc with the original cuts in the correct order, because such a disk (like "Out of the cool") is an integrated whole -- more than the sum of its astonishing parts. I do like hearing the previously lost bits, but instead of forcing this overstuffed, clunky playlist on us, how about a two-disk set, with the original LP playlist on one, and the lost stuff on the second.
But I complain too long. The original "Individualism" is a colossal phenomenon. Gil Evans IS individual, and what a loss that he's gone.
