From the Miles Davis album Quiet Nights, with conducted and arranged by Gil Evans. The tune is a Miles/Gil classic, and appears as a bonus track on the 1997 reissue of this album. The version […]
Category: Gil Evans
Daily best music in the world: Barbara Song
Here are several versions of Barbara Song, from Kurt Weill’s Threepenny Opera. I could try to write something about it, but what for? The content is self-evident and I see no need to flail around […]
Busy
Busy all day doing tour-related junk, and transcribing charts– Blood by Paul Bley, Priestess by Billy Harper, following Gil Evans’s arrangement, and a couple of Don Cherry tunes I used to play in the 90’s. […]
DBMITW: Gil Evans – Naña
Gil Evans again. It’s always Gil Evans. Usually I do these Daily-Best-Music-In-The-World-ses when I’m pressed for time, but this is such an insane rendition of one of my favorite Brazilian tunes it merited actually taking […]
Daily best music in the world: Gil Evans
We can debate the subtleties of the meaning of the word “daily” later- right now just play this loud: That’s Tony Williams on the drums, in one of my new favorite performances of his after […]
Larry Appelbaum: Before and After with Billy Cobham
Larry Appelbaum, writer, blogger, and jazz specialist for the US Library of Congress, among other things, listens to records with Billy Cobham– covering Paul Motian, Lewis Nash, Ndugu, Philly Joe, and more. Here they are […]