Great Jazz Standards

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Great Jazz Standards
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Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 1959
RecordedEarly 1959
New York City
Genre Jazz
Label World Pacific
Producer Richard Bock
Gil Evans chronology
New Bottle Old Wine
(1958)
Great Jazz Standards
(1959)
Out of the Cool
(1961)

Great Jazz Standards is an album by jazz composer, arranger, conductor and pianist Gil Evans recorded in 1959 by Evans with an orchestra featuring Johnny Coles, Steve Lacy, Curtis Fuller, Jimmy Cleveland, Budd Johnson, Ray Crawford, and Elvin Jones. [1]

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars calling it "Highly recommended". [2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
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Track listing

  1. "Davenport Blues" (Bix Beiderbecke) - 4:26
  2. "Straight, No Chaser" (Thelonious Monk) - 6:19
  3. "Ballad of the Sad Young Men" (Fran Landesman, Tommy Wolf) - 4:00
  4. "Joy Spring" (Clifford Brown) - 2:48
  5. "Django" (John Lewis) - 8:06
  6. "Chant of the Weed" (Don Redman) - 4:25
  7. "La Nevada" [a.k.a. "Theme"] (Gil Evans) - 6:17

Recorded on February 5, 1959 (tracks 3, 4, 6 & 7) and early 1959 (tracks 1, 2 & 5)

Personnel

References

  1. Gil Evans discography accessed February 1, 2010.
  2. 1 2 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed February 1, 2010.