The Allmusic review past times Scott Yanow awarded the album 4½ stars stating "Evans' arrangements uplift many of Hendrix's to a greater extent than blues-oriented compositions as well as create a memorable laid upwardly that is rock-oriented exactly retains the improvisation as well as personality of jazz"
This CD reissue (which adds additional textile to the master copy LP program) is much to a greater extent than successful than ane powerfulness cause got expected. artist/jimi-hendrix-mn0000354105">Jimi Hendrix was scheduled to tape alongside artist/gil-evans-mn0000551815">Gil Evans' Orchestra exactly died earlier the session could cause got place. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 few years later, artist/evans-mn0000551815">Evans explored 10 of artist/hendrix-mn0000354105">Hendrix's compositions alongside his unique 19-piece unit, an orchestra that included 2 French horns, the tuba of artist/howard-johnson-mn0000276735">Howard Johnson, 3 guitars, 2 basses, 2 percussionists as well as such soloists equally altoist artist/david-sanborn-mn0000188432">David Sanborn, trumpeter artist/marvin-hannibal-peterson-mn0000374683">Marvin "Hannibal" Peterson, Billy Harper on tenor, as well as guitarists artist/ryo-kawasaki-mn0000826842">Ryo Kawasaki as well as artist/john-abercrombie-mn0000214546">John Abercrombie. artist/evans-mn0000551815">Evans' arrangements uplift many of artist/hendrix-mn0000354105">Hendrix's to a greater extent than blues-oriented compositions as well as create a memorable laid upwardly that is rock-oriented exactly retains the improvisation as well as personality of jazz. [This album was re-released inward 2002 on the Bluebird label alongside iv bonus tracks from the same sessions]
Reissue of Gil Evans' classic, controversial master copy album from 1974, inward which his orchestra, which includes guitarist John Abercrombie, trumpeter Marvin C. Peterson as well as saxophonists David Sanborn as well as Billy Harper translate nine Hendrix compositions. Includes the bonus tracks 'Little Wing' as well as alternate takes of 'Angel', 'Castles Made Of Sand', Up From The Skies' as well as 'Gypsy Eyes'.
· Gil Evans was to cause got recorded alongside Jimi Hendrix. The thought was to characteristic the Hendrix solo guitar as well as phonation against the cushion of Evans' orchestrations, much inward the mode of the Gil Evans-Miles Davis collaborations of the slow 1940's as well as over again inward the 1950's. Denied the chance when the guitarist died inward London a calendar week earlier the preliminary meetings were set, Gil forged ahead alongside a whole concert of Hendrix compositions at Carnegie Hall, and, alongside the same immature group, the sessions for this album.
· Evans told Rolling Stone magazine: "Stop as well as intend close Hendrix' guitar work, close how hard it was, as well as is, to play a guitar that agency – the use, the right use, of electronics. And nonetheless for him it was the natural way. What I practise is drive to hand off Jimi inward heed when arranging his music. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 very, real dandy guitar player."
· Gil Evans as well as Jimi Hendrix - a fusion of stone as well as jazz, working properly for once, each trend drawing from the other. Gil was fond of proverb that he looked for the "living spirit" inward whatsoever music he heard. That spirit is here, live on as well as well, inside these tracks.
Track listing:
1. ANGEL
2. CROSSTOWN TRAFFIC / LITTLE MISS LOVER
3. MEDLEY: CASTLES MADE OF SAND / FOXY LADY
4. UP FROM THE SKIES
5. 1983 – Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 MERMAN I SHOULD TURN TO BE
6. VOODOO CHILE
7. GYPSY EYES
8. LITTLE WING
9. ANGEL (ALTERNATE TAKE)
10. CASTLES MADE OF SAND (ALTERNATE TAKE)
11. UP FROM THE SKIES (ALTERNATE TAKE)
12. GYPSY EYES (ALTERNATE TAKE)
Personnel:
- Gil Evans - piano, electric piano, arranger, conductor
- Hannibal Marvin Peterson - trumpet, vocals
- Lew Soloff - trumpet, flugelhorn, piccolo trumpet
- Peter Gordon - French horn
- Pete Levin - French horn, synthesizer
- Tom Malone - trombone, bass trombone, flute, synthesizer, arranger
- Howard Johnson - tuba, bass clarinet, electric bass, arranger
- David Sanborn - alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute
- Billy Harper - tenor saxophone, flute
- Trevor Koehler - tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, flute, baritone saxophone, soprano saxophone, arranger
- John Abercrombie, Ryo Kawasaki - electric guitar
- Keith Loving - guitar
- Don Pate - bass
- Michael Moore - electric bass, acoustic bass
- Bruce Ditmas - drums
- Warren Smith - vibraphone, marimba, chimes, latin percussion
- Sue Evans - drums, congas, percussion
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