Mike Gibbs/Hans Koller Large Ensemble – review

Kings Place, LondonSome of the most beautiful and subtly dramatic large-scale jazz ever crafted came from the pen of Gil Evans, the Duke Ellington-inspired composer/arranger famous for such landmark Miles Davis collaborations as Birth of the Cool and Sketches of Spain. But Evans made some spellbinding music under his own name in the early 1960s, rekindled in an all-too-rare gig by the great Evans-influenced composer/arranger Mike Gibbs, directing a band assembled by pianist Hans Koller, on a pro...

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