Bud and Bird
1987 live album by Gil Evans & the Monday Night Orchestra
Bud and Bird | ||||
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Live album by Gil Evans & the Monday Night Orchestra | ||||
Released | 1987 | |||
Recorded | December 1 and 22, 1986 | |||
Venue | Sweet Basil, New York City | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 66:30 | |||
Label | King | |||
Producer | Horst Liepolt, Shigeyuki Kawashima | |||
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Bud and Bird is a live album by Gil Evans that won the Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album in 1989. Evans conducted the orchestra, which included Hamiet Bluiett, Bill Evans, and Johnny Coles.[1]
Reception
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In 1989, the album received the Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album posthumously.[3] Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars stating "Some critics rapped Evans' '80s orchestras for their almost chaotic sound and loose feel. But Evans wanted a sprawling sensibility, and although his bands often seemed disorganized, they always maintained discipline in the midst of what others thought sounded like musical anarchy".[2]
Track listing
- "Bud and Bird" (Gil Evans) - 8:48
- "Half Man, Half Cookie" (Bill Evans) - 10:27
- "Gates - Illuminations" (Mark Egan) - 17:40
- "Nicaragua Blues" (Tom Malone) - 7:44
- "Groove from the Louvre" (John Clark) - 21:51
- Recorded at Sweet Basil Jazz Club in NYC on December 1, 1986 (tracks 2 & 3) and December 22, 1986 (tracks 1, 4 & 5)
Personnel
- Gil Evans – piano, electric piano, arranger, conductor
- Lew Soloff, Shunzo Ohno, Miles Evans – trumpet
- Johnny Coles – flugelhorn (track 5)
- Dave Bargeron – trombone
- Dave Taylor – bass trombone
- John Clark – French horn, hornette, arranger
- Chris Hunter – alto sax, soprano sax, flute
- Bill Evans – tenor sax, soprano sax, flute, arranger
- Hamiet Bluiett – baritone sax, clarinet, bass clarinet
- Hiram Bullock – guitar
- Pete Levin, Gil Goldstein – keyboards
- Mark Egan – bass guitar, arranger
- Danny Gottlieb – drums
References
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- Gil Evans & Ten (1958)
- New Bottle Old Wine (1958)
- Great Jazz Standards (1959)
- Out of the Cool (1961)
- Into the Hot (1962)
- The Individualism of Gil Evans (1964)
- Blues in Orbit (1971)
- Masabumi Kikuchi with Gil Evans (1972)
- The Gil Evans Orchestra Plays the Music of Jimi Hendrix (1974)
- There Comes a Time (1976)
- Parabola (1979)
- Where Flamingos Fly (1981)
- Collaboration (1987) [with Helen Merrill]
- Paris Blues (1988) [with Steve Lacy]
- Rhythm A Ning (1988) [with Laurent Cugny Big Band Lumiere]
- Golden Hair (1989) [with Laurent Cugny Big Band Lumiere]
- Svengali (1973)
- Priestess (1977)
- Gil Evans Live at the Royal Festival Hall London 1978 (1978)
- Heroes (1980) [with Lee Konitz]
- Anti-Heroes (1980) [with Lee Konitz]
- Live at the Public Theater (New York 1980) (1980, 81)
- Live at Sweet Basil (1984)
- Live at Sweet Basil Vol. 2 (1984)
- Bud and Bird (1986)
- Farewell (1986)