Svengali (Album)

Occupation

  • Piano, Electric Piano, Arrangement: Gil Evans
  • Trumpet: Tex Allen - (except in " Zee Zee" ), Hannibal Marvin Peterson (in " Zee Zee" )
  • Trumpet: Richard Williams
  • French horn: Sharon Freeman, Pete Levin
  • Trombone, Tuba: Joe Daley
  • Tuba, baritone saxophone, flugelhorn: Howard Johnson
  • Baritone Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Flute: Trevor Koehler
  • Alto Saxophone: David Sanborn
  • Tenor Saxophone, Flute: Billy Harper
  • Guitar: Ted Dunbar
  • Synthesizers: David Horowitz
  • Bass Guitar: Herb Bushler
  • Drums: Bruce Ditmas
  • Percussion: Susan Evans

Producer = Kenneth Noland, Gil Evans

Svengali is a jazz album by Gil Evans, recorded in two recording sessions on May 30 and June 3, 1973, published by Atlantic Records and re-released as a CD on ACT Records.

The title of the album

Svengali is an anagram of the name of the band leader; he was created by his friend and colleague Gerry Mulligan and later used to denote long-time companions, who have collaborated with Gil Evans in his many projects, such as Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderley, George Adams to Hannibal Marvin Peterson. Apart from that, " Svengali " particularly in English the meaning of an artistic determined man in the background.

The album

" Svengali " was recorded live at New York's Trinity Church, up to the title " Zee Zee", which was created in the Philharmonic Hall on June 3. For the first time were here in 1973, post- Ornette Coleman and Eric Dolphy musicians to hear that should govern the sound of the orchestra in the 70s, like Billy Harper on tenor saxophone, the tuba player Howard Johnson, who also baritone saxophone and flugelhorn playing here, as well as the trumpeter Hannibal Marvin Peterson. Another element that determines the music of " Svengali ", Evans was ' interest in electronic sounds; in several tracks of the album the band leader played electric piano, bassist Herb Bushler bass guitar; Evans also had the synthesizer player David Horowitz brought into the band.

" Zee Zee" ( already included in the previous album ) is a feature of the " fiery " Peterson, another title of the album is by Cook and Morton Billy Harper's composition, " Cry of Hunger", in which he plays a long solo. The title was then - in a similar procedure as Teo Macero did with Miles Davis albums like Bitches Brew - newly composed, almost seemed Evans as an ex post facto composer, so Cook and Morton in the Penguin Guide to Jazz.

Effect story

The album is considered "perhaps the most definitive record of the Gil Evans Orchestra " in the 1970s, the Evans biographer Raymond Horricks 1983. Evans The biographer Stephanie Stein Crease calls it " one of the best examples of Gil Evans ' band in the 1970s. "It got rave reviews and was nominated for a Grammy. The Downbeat magazine awarded five stars.

Richard Cook and Brian Morton draw in their Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD from the album with the second highest score of three and a half stars. Ian Carr counts in Jazz Rough Guide " Svengali " Although the most remarkable albums of the band leader, especially because Billy Harper's introductory solo in the title " Thoroughbred", which he considers " a small masterpiece ". However, he expressed reservations about the sound of the album especially in the freer collective improvisations.

Edition history

The album was released in 1973 as a long-playing record with Atlantic Records, but was hardly promoted by the label, was then a long time out of print and was then published in the 1990s in the ACT label as Compact Disc.

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