Live at Sweet Basil (Gil Evans album)

Live Sweet Basil is a live album by jazz composer, arranger, conductor and pianist Gil Evans recorded by King Records (Japan) in New York in 1984 featuring Evans with his Monday Night Orchestra which included George Adams, Howard Johnson, and Lew Soloff and originally released in the US on the Gramavision label.^[1]

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 2 stars stating "It may not have been "cool," but it was most assuredly great jazz".^[2]

"Parabola" (Alan Shorter) - 18:40
"Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" (Jimi Hendrix) - 7:21
"Orange Was the Color of Her Dress, Then Silk Blue" (Charles Mingus) - 6:15
"Prince of Darkness" (Herbie Hancock) - 5:50
"Blues in "C": John's Memory/Cheryl/Bird Feathers/Relaxin' at Camarillo" (Charlie Parker) - 24:42
"Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" (Mingus) - 9:30 Omitted from CD reissue
"Up from the Skies" (Hendrix) - 8:39

Gil Evans

Studio albums	Gil Evans & Ten (1957) New Bottle Old Wine (1958) Great Jazz Standards (1959) Out of the Cool (1960) Into the Hot (1961) The Individualism of Gil Evans (1964) Blues in Orbit (1969) Where Flamingos Fly (1971) The Gil Evans Orchestra Plays the Music of Jimi Hendrix (1974) There Comes a Time (1975) Parabola (1978) Collaboration (1987) [with Helen Merrill] Rhythm A Ning (1987) [with Laurent Cugny Big Band Lumiere] Golden Hair (1987) [with Laurent Cugny Big Band Lumiere] Paris Blues (1987) [with Steve Lacy]

Live albums	Svengali (1973) Priestess (1977) Gil Evans Live at the Royal Festival Hall London 1978 (1978) Live at the Public Theater (New York 1980) (1980) Live at Sweet Basil (1984) Live at Sweet Basil Vol. 2 (1984) Farewell (1986)

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