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Gil Evans: Blues In Orbit | CD review

(Enja)This is an intriguing and overlooked curiosity from the great arranger/composer Gil Evans (the modest magician who created such haunting orchestral settings for Miles Davis in the 1950s and early 60s), the German label Enja having remastered it and restored it to the catalogue. These eight pieces (recorded in 1969 and 1971) track the tentative and always cliche-free flirtations with jazz-fusion that marked Evans's later career - as well as his growing confidence in a looser, collective app...

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22:30 on December 17 2009

Gil Evans: Blues In Orbit | CD review

Guardian Music — (Enja)This is an intriguing and overlooked curiosity from the great arranger/composer Gil Evans (the modest magician who created such haunting orchestral settings for Mil... more info

Miles Davis

22:30 on December 17 2009

Barry Guy London Jazz Composers Orchestra/ Irene Schweizer: Radio Rondo/ Schaffhausen Concert | CD review

Guardian Music — (Intakt)Virtuoso bassist and composer Barry Guy formed his London Jazz Composers Orchestra in the 1970s, with the ambitious objective of framing the then-new improvising ... more info

Evan Parker

22:30 on December 17 2009

How noughties jazz went clubbing

Guardian Music — The only thing you could really expect from jazz in the noughties was the unexpectedJazz sounds different now; different from the way it sounded in the century that spawn... more info

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