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The Gil Evans Orchestra* – Out Of The Cool
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Label: Impulse! – B0033211-01, Verve Records – B0033211-01, UMe – B0033211-01, Impulse! – A-4
Series: Acoustic Sounds Series
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo, Gatefold, 180 gram
Country: US
Released: May 14, 2021
Genre: Jazz
Style: Post Bop, Contemporary Jazz
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Tracklist
A1 La Nevada
Written-By – Gil Evans
15:33
A2 Where Flamingos Fly
Written-By – El Thea*, Harold Courlander, John Benson Brooks
5:11
B1 Bilbao Song
Written-By – Bert Brecht*, Kurt Weill
4:10
B2 Stratusphunk
Written-By – George Russell
8:00
B3 Sunken Treasure
Written-By – Gil Evans
4:15
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Companies, etc.
Pressed By – Quality Record Pressings
Mastered At – Sterling Sound
Lacquer Cut at – Sterling Sound
Printed By – Stoughton Printing Co.
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Credits
Alto Saxophone, Flute, Piccolo Flute – Eddie Caine (tracks: A2, B2, B3), Ray Beckenstein (tracks: A1, B1)
Bass – Ron Carter
Bass Trombone – Tony Studd
Bassoon, Flute, Piccolo Flute – Bob Tricarico
Cover [Design] – Robert Flynn (2)
Guitar – Ray Crawford
Lacquer Cut By – RKS*
Liner Notes – Tom Stewart
Mastered By – Ryan Smith (2)
Percussion – Charlie Persip, Elvin Jones
Photography By – Arnold Newman
Piano, Arranged By – Gil Evans
Producer – Creed Taylor
Supervised By – Chad Kassem
Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone – Budd Johnson
Trombone – Jimmy Knepper, Keg Johnson
Trumpet – John Coles*, Phil Sunkel
Tuba – Bill Barber
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Rezension:
Eine Sternstunde des Big Band-Jazz war die erste LP des genialen Arrangeurs nach der legendären, drei Alben umfassenden Zusammenarbeit mit Miles Davis (während der sicher beide Musiker viel dazugelernt hatten). Wobei man den Terminus Big Band Jazz hier weit fassen muß, denn mit der klassischen Idee einer Swing Band kommt man hier nicht weit. Evans erfindet in einer Tour neue Klangfarben und arbeitet mit verblüffenden Effekten (allein das mit Charlie Persip und Elvin Jones doppelt besetzte Schlagzeug!), die bei jedem anderen spätestens beim zweiten Hören als aufdringlicher Novelty-Gag durchgefallen wären, bei ihm aber auch beim 50. Durchgang spannend bleiben, weil sie nicht vom Willen zum Anderssein, sondern von Evans' überragender Musikalität gespeist werden. Es gibt nichts Vergleichbares in diesem Sektor (es sei denn von Evans selbst), und Evans' Ideenreichtum – sei's die seltsam scheppernde Hi-Hat im sowie vollkommen unglaublichen "La Nevada", sei's die Baßposaunen-Einleitung von "Stratosphunk" – macht immer wieder glücklich… Daß es einem Sound-Zauberer wie Evans auch um die Qualität desselben ging, verwundert nicht. Konsequenterweise befindet sich eine genaue Graphik zur Mikrophonaufstellung auf dem Cover, und ja, "Out Of The Cool" ist auch eine tontechnische Meisterleistung, immer gewesen. Was sich mit vorliegender Ausgabe besonders eindrucksvoll zeigt. (1960/2021)
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Entspannter Westküsten-Cool-Jazz trifft auf den rhythmischen Puls der Straßen von Las Vegas. Out of the Cool aus dem Jahr 1960 war Gil Evans' erste Aufnahme nach drei Alben mit Miles Davis. Evans konzentriert sich hier auf die Rhythmusgruppe um Elvin Jones, Charlie Persip, Ron Carter und Ray Crawford. Die Bläsersektion besteht aus Ray Beckenstein, Budd Johnson und Eddie Caine an den Saxophonen, den Posaunisten Jimmy Knepper, Keg Johnson, dem Bassposaunisten Tony Studd, Johnny Coles und Phil Sunkel an der Trompete, Bill Barber an der Tuba und Bob Tricarico an Flöte, Fagott und Piccoloflöte.
Musikalisch ist das Album von einer wundersamen Vielfalt, in deren Mittelpunkt Evans' Kompositionen La Nevada und Sunken Treasure stehen. Ergänzt werden sie um den Standard Where Flamingos Fly, Kurt Weills Bilbao Song und George Russells Klassiker Stratusphunk. Dieses Set ist nicht nur großartig, sondern auch äußerst unterhaltsam.
Impulse! 60 - zum Jubiläum des legendären Labels erscheinen als 8. Staffel der audiophilen Acoustic-Sounds-LP-Serie zwei absolute Impulse-Albumklassiker:
Ray Charles - Genius + Soul = Jazz
Gil Evans - Out Of The Cool
- audiophiles, rein analoges Mastering von den Original-Analogbändern
- Pressung in 180g-Vinyl
- extra-dicke, laminierte Tip-on-Sleeves
- wattierte Innenhüllen
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Description
AAA 100% Analogue This LP was Remastered using Pure Analogue Components Only from the Master Tapes through to the Cutting Head
Acoustic Sounds Series - Impulse A-4 - 180 Gram Virgin Vinyl - AAA 100% Analogue
Mastered by Ryan K Smith - Limited Edition - Pressed at QRP Quality Record Pressings
The sonics here with a cut from the master tape by Ryan K. Smith (yes, the master tape— I have a current photo that for some reason I can't share with you) are incredibly transparent, spacious and flat-out thrilling
and if you have a clean original Rudy Van Gelder cut (A-4) you may think you are set, but that cut is less spacious, somewhat dynamically compressed, has the RVG lower bass roll-off and is definitely less transparent—not that it's bad and some people do like the more "in your face" excitement. This one's here now though! Do not miss it! Sound 10/10 Music 10/10 Michael Fremer Analogue Planet
"Out Of The Cool is nearly as striking an album now as it must have been when it hit the bins in 1961. Not only is it Gil Evans' masterpiece and his best album that didn't front Miles Davis as a soloist; it's a peculiar masterpiece, stretching modal jazz to minimalist extremes yet soaking with swing. ... This QRP pressing comes very close to the sound of the Impulse! original. Piano, percussion, guitar, bass, and horns all waft through what seems to be a vast space (perhaps the result of subtly mixed echo) with tonal colors, crisp transients, and bloom intact. Trombones lack some of the oomph heard on the original pressing, and in a few spots where horns play loud in unison, there's some distortion — a problem with the original as well. Otherwise, no complaints at all." — Performance = 5/5; Sonics = 4.5/5 - Fred Kaplan, Stereophile, August 2021.
Acoustic Sounds Series reissues from Verve/Universal Music Enterprises!
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Mastered by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound from the original analog tapes
180-gram LPs pressed at Quality Record Pressings!
Stoughton Printing gatefold old-style tip-on jackets Series supervised by Chad Kassem
A groundbreaking jazz recording by the longtime Miles Davis collaborator Gil Evans highlights the latter's supreme and influential skills as a jazz orchestrator.
This album is a brilliant example of Evans' ability to make a large orchestra sound like a smaller jazz combo using orchestrations that infuse the larger unit with the immediacy and spontaneity of the smaller. Out Of The Cool features some of Evan's finest compositions, including the famous "La Nevada" as well as a magnificent performance of George Russell's "Sratosphunk." Soloists include Budd Johnson (tenor), Johnny Coles (trumpet), Ray Crawford (guitar), Elvin Jones (drums), Ron Carter (bass) and Jimmy Knepper (trombone). The ensemble is superbly recorded by the legendary Rudy Van Gelder. A must-have for all lovers of jazz.
A groundbreaking jazz recording by the longtime Miles Davis collaborator Gil Evans highlights the latter's supreme and influential skills as a jazz orchestrator. This album is a brilliant example of Evans' ability to make a large orchestra sound like a smaller jazz combo using orchestrations that infuse the larger unit with the immediacy and spontaneity of the smaller.
Out Of The Cool features some of Evan's finest compositions, including the famous "La Nevada" as well as a magnificent performance of George Russell's "Sratosphunk." Soloists include Budd Johnson (tenor), Johnny Coles (trumpet), Ray Crawford (guitar), Elvin Jones (drums), Ron Carter (bass) and Jimmy Knepper (trombone).
The ensemble is superbly recorded by the legendary Rudy Van Gelder.
Produced by: Creed Taylor
Engineered by: Rudy Van Gelder
Mixed by: Rudy Van Gelder
Mastered by: Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio
Musicians:
Gil Evans, piano
Johnny Coles, trumpet
Phil Sunkel, trumpet
Keg Johnson, trombone
Jimmy Knepper, trombone
Tony Studd, bass trombone
Bill Barber, tuba
Ray Beckenstein, alto saxophone, flute, piccolo
Eddie Caine, alto saxophone, flute, piccolo
Budd Johnson, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
Bob Tricarico, glute, piccolo, bassoon
Ray Crawford, guitar
Ron Carter, bass
Elvin Jones, drums
Charli Persip, drums
Side A
1. La Nevada
2. Where Flamingos Fly
Side B
1. Bilbao Song
2. Stratusphunk
3. Sunken Treasure
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