Out Of The Cool• The Gil Evans Orchestra•Impulse Mono A-4• RARE
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RARE• Out Of The Cool• The Gil Evans Orchestra•Impulse! Mono A-4• RARE. Lp in very good condition. The paper sleeve excellent. The outer LP cover in very good to excellent condition. Has minor shelf wear and minor bumped corners. Out of the Cool is a jazz album by The Gil Evans Orchestra, recorded in 1960 and released on the Impulse! label the following year. The album was one of Impulse!'s first four albums, released together, and featured a gatefold design and high production values.[1]:237
Out of the Cool
Out of the Cool.jpg
Studio album by The Gil Evans Orchestra
Released
February 1961
Recorded
November 18 & 30, December 10 & 15, 1960
Studio
Van Gelder Studio
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Genre
Jazz
Length
44:06
Label
Impulse!
Producer
Creed Taylor
The Gil Evans Orchestra chronology
Great Jazz Standards
(1959) Out of the Cool
(1961) Into the Hot
(1961)
Background Edit
Gil Evans recorded the album a short time after completing a six-week job at the Jazz Gallery club in New York City; the personnel was largely the same, with Elvin Jones being added.[1]:235–6
Music
The first track, "La Nevada", was also recorded by Evans less than two years earlier for the album Great Jazz Standards; the version for Out of the Cool is given a consistent rhythmic structure by Elvin Jones playing shakers, giving the rest of the band greater freedom and leading to a less boppish version than the earlier recording.[1]:236–7 "Where Flamingos Fly" has a melody stated by trombonist Jimmy Knepper, and uses an earlier Evans arrangement done for vocalist Helen Merrill[1]:237 The music on this album was part of a move by Evans towards greater freedom in his compositions and arrangements, this "new work integrated the written and improvised, at times allowing the balance to shift imperceptibly".[1]:238
Reception Edit
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide 5/5 stars The Penguin Guide to Jazz selected this album as part of its suggested "Core Collection", calling it "Evans' masterpiece under his own name and one of the best examples of jazz orchestration since the early Ellington bands" Track listing : La Nevada" (Gil Evans) – 15:38
"Where Flamingos Fly" (Elthea Peale, Harold Courlander, John Benson Brooks) – 5:14
"Bilbao Song" (Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill) – 4:13
"Stratusphunk" (George Russell) – 8:04
"Sunken Treasure" (Evans) – 4:16
"Sister Sadie" (Horace Silver) – 6:57 (CD bonus track, not on original LP)
Tracks 2, 4 and 5 recorded on November 18 and 30, 1960; the remainder on December 10 and 15, 1960.
Personnel Edit
Gil Evans – piano
Johnny Coles – trumpet (soloist)
Phil Sunkel – trumpet
Keg Johnson – trombone
Jimmy Knepper – trombone
Tony Studd – bass trombone (soloist)
Bill Barber – tuba
Ray Beckenstein – alto saxophone, flute, piccolo
Eddie Caine – alto saxophone, flute, piccolo
Budd Johnson – tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone (soloist)
Bob Tricarico – flute, piccolo, bassoon
Ray Crawford – guitar (soloist)
Ron Carter – bass
Elvin Jones – drums, percussion
Charlie Persip – drums
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