Where Flamingos Fly
Occupation
- Tenor Sax: Billy Harper
- Baritone saxophone, tuba, flugelhorn: Howard Johnson
- Trumpet: Johnny Coles
- Trumpet: Stan Shafran [2, 3, 4, 5]
- Trombone: Hannibal Peterson [2, 3, 4, 5]
- Trumpet, Jimmy Knepper [2, 3, 4, 5]
- Tenor Violin: Harry Lookowsky [1, 6]
- Guitar, mandolin: Joe Beck [1, 6]
- Guitar Bruce Johnson [2, 3, 4, 5]
- Piano, E- Piano: Gil Evans
- Synthesizers: Phil Davis [2, 3, 4, 5]
- Synthesizers: Don Preston
- E -Bass: Herb Bushler [1, 6]
- Double Bass: Richard Davis [2, 3, 4, 5]
- E -Bass: Bill Quinze [2, 3, 4, 5]
- Percussion Sue Evans [1, 2, 6]
- Percussion, vocals: Airto Moreira
- Vocals, percussion Flora Purim
Where Flamingos Fly is a jazz album by Gil Evans, the 1971 recorded and released ten years later in 1981 at Artists House. It shows rock jazz and Brazilian influences and was at a turning point in the musical work of Evans.
Genesis
Mediated by Albert Grossman took Evans in the fall of 1971 an album for Capitol Records on. The album was produced by John Simon, a member of Grossman's loose circle of professionals in the music industry who lived in Woodstock and also produced recordings by The Band. Evans knew the work of Morton Subotnik and other composers of electronic music; He sat for the first time a synthesizer after he had received from Robert Moog Minimoog one of the first. He was keen to explore the possibilities of tone color produced by electronic instruments and included in his arrangements. Therefore, he had also connected to his electric piano, which he played from 1968 ring modulators. Evans played on the album but not even synthesizer, but left the specialists from the West Coast, Don Preston and his friend Phil Davis; the latter was also prepared to work without a salary with Evans ( and accompanied him in this condition also on a European tour ).
The plate belongs to a series of shots that Evans has recorded with the ( later to be called ) Monday Night Orchestra. After the publication smashed with Capitol, recording sessions were released on different labels in the early 1980s. The Artists House label newly founded went only a short time after the publication, in September 1982, broke.
The music of the album
In two overlapping ensembles the band plays six pieces, some of which should far belong to Gil Evans ' standard repertoire. The main soloists are Billy Harper ( ts) and Howard Johnson (bs, tuba ).
The title of the first piece Zee -Zee by Gil Evans, refers to Basque rhythms that are danced very fast, called Zort - ziko.
NANA is a title from Brazil, had written a new arrangement for the Gil. Airto and Flora Purim interact with on this piece in the overdubbing process, since he had the piece before their encounter ( he heard her sing with Edu Lobo at a dinner party and decided to add) ready. It includes solos by Trevor Koehler and Howard Johnson.
Love Your Love is a feature for tenor saxophonist to Harper, who also wrote it, with a slightly " old- fashioned touch " in the spirit of the music of Duke Ellington. The band allegedly came with the piece Harpers so difficult to navigate that Gil Evans had to cut it strong.
Jelly Rolls by Gil Evans wrote in time, when he worked with Miles Davis on the Suite, The Time of the Barracudas 1963. In the output for Artists House (1981 ) was incorrectly stated as the title of this composition Hotel Me.
The title track Where Flamingos Fly comes from John Benson Brooks, a singer, composer and friend of Gil Evans, he had already processed with Helen Merrill in 1956 and on his Out of the Cool Album of 1960.
The 1989 published by A & M Records CD is added to the piece El Matador.