Individualism of Gil Evans [Import]

Gil Evans | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 3, 1989)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Universal I.S.
• ASIN: B00000476F
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #97,904 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Time Of The Barracudas

2. The Barbara Song

3. Las Vegas Tango

4. Flute Song/Hotel Me

5. El Toreador

6. Proclamation

7. Nothing Like You

8. Concorde

9. Spoonful

Editorial Reviews

Japanese only SHM-CD pressing. Universal. 2011. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gil the Genius, March 21, 2003

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Paul of London (London, UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Individualism of Gil Evans (Audio CD)

If you like Gil Evans' work with Miles Davis, you'll like this. Some startling compositions -- 'Hotel Me' with its romping rhythm, the stunning 'Las Vegas Tango' -- and some splendid covers, Willie Dixon's 'Spoonful' (with the LP's edit cuts reinstated) and a beautifully funereal go at Kurt Weil's 'Barbara Song'. Listen especially to Elvin Jones' excellent drumming. A classic.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Quintessential Gil Evans, December 25, 2002

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"jazzrage" (Port Washington, New York United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Individualism of Gil Evans (Audio CD)

This album represents Gil Evans at the height of his creative expression. Gil Evans is an uncategorizable artist, perhaps because his style is neither exactly bop or cool jazz, but uniquely his own. This album while not a starter (that would be Out of the Cool)is still a serious contender. Lush and expressionistic, it has extra tracks culled from out of print albums or unreleased matter. From the collaborator of Sketches of Spain, this is as the title says, very uniquely one of his solo masterpieces.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I could have lived without the "filler"..., June 5, 2006

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Sensitive Guy (Foster City, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Individualism of Gil Evans (Audio CD)

Well, sometimes, the old ways are best. Some times, picking what fits on an LP forces choices that really prove to be wise. The extra, "lost" songs that were rescued from the tape vaults or from other oddball LPs don't, in my opinion, add much to a pure, utter classic LP, per its initial incarnation. I would love a disc with the original cuts in the correct order, because such a disk (like "Out of the cool") is an integrated whole -- more than the sum of its astonishing parts. I do like hearing the previously lost bits, but instead of forcing this overstuffed, clunky playlist on us, how about a two-disk set, with the original LP playlist on one, and the lost stuff on the second.

But I complain too long. The original "Individualism" is a colossal phenomenon. Gil Evans IS individual, and what a loss that he's gone.