Kimiko Kasai With Gil Evans Orchestra Sacd

Gil Evans - The Complete Instrumental Charts For Claude Thornhill 1942-1947 (1999) {Musisoft MJCD 154}
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© 1942-47, 1999 Musisoft / Masters Of Jazz | MJCD 154
Jazz / Bebop / Big Band / Sweet Bands

For many years, Claude Thornhill's orchestra of the Forties and early Fifties was frequently referred to as a musicians orchestra, as it focused as much on the musicians as the music itself. Thornhill's music was clearly way ahead of its time, yet today his sumptuous, mellow jazz sound remains one of the biggest influences for many contemporary big band jazz arrangers. He worked to extend the range of a popular dance orchestra by continually adding new harmonies and voices. In the truest sense of the word, the Thornhill orchestra was an experimental group and this experimentation made mostly exciting and provocative listening.

Sting - After disbanding the Police at the peak of their popularity in 1984, Sting quickly established himself as a viable solo artist, one obsessed with expanding the boundaries of pop music. Sting incorporated heavy elements of jazz, classical, and worldbeat into his music, writing lyrics that were literate and self-consciously meaningful, and he was never afraid to emphasize this fact in the press.

Gil Evans - There Comes a Time (1975) {2014 Japan Jazz Collection 1000 Columbia-RCA Series SICP 4045}
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© 1975, 2014 RCA / Sony Music Japan | SICP 4045
Jazz / Post Bop / Progressive Jazz / Modern Post-Bebop / Experimental Big Band

Reissue with latest remastering. Comes with liner notes. There Comes a Time is an album by the jazz composer, arranger, conductor and pianist Gil Evans, recorded in 1975 and performed by Evans with an orchestra featuring David Sanborn, Howard Johnson, Billy Harper. So, in a rather silent way, we've got a FULL version of this album. There Comes A Time comes not only with a 3 bonus tracks (that are marked jsut modestly somewhere on the obi), but with a full, over 19-minutes version of "The Meaning Of The Blues", that originaly take not even 6 minutes. Absolute must for a fusion fan, great guitar solos by Kawasaki ("There Comes A Time" sounds like a hell of tribute to Mahavishnu Orchestra) and horns.

One of the most significant arrangers in jazz history, Gil Evans' three album-length collaborations with Miles Davis (Miles Ahead, Porgy and Bess, and Sketches of Spain) are all considered classics.

Songstress Kimiko Kasai released this LP in 1984 on CBS/Sony, musicians are Larry Williams on keyboards & sax, Randy Waldman on keyboards, Lee Ritenour, Paul Jackson Jr., David Williams and Kevin Clark on guitar, Nathan East on bass, Harvey Mason and John Robinson on drums and Paulinho Da Costa percussion, plus background vocals.

Gil Evans & Laurent Cugny - Big Band Lumiere - Rhythm a Ning (1987) {EmArcy 836 401-2}
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© 1987 EmArcy / PolyGram | 836 401-2
Jazz / Modern Big Band / Progressive Jazz / Contemporary Jazz

This is a very interesting recording. Aging arranger/pianist Gil Evans agreed after much persuasion to come to Paris and play his music at a few concerts with Laurent Cugny's Orchestra. After only one rehearsal, the first event took place, and it gratified Evans to realize that the young French musicians were not only excellent players but big Gil Evans fans. Their interpretations of Thelonious Monk's "Rhythm-A-Ning," "London" and "La Nevada" rank with the best versions of Evans's regular Monday Night Band, and Cugny's "Charlie Mingus' Sound of Love" (an answer to Mingus' "Duke Ellington's Sound of Love") is also excellent. Few of the sidemen, other than tenor-saxophonist Andy Sheppard and percussionist Marilyn Mazur, are known in the U.S., but they did an excellent job of bringing Gil Evans's music to life.