The Road to Live at Sweet Basil vol.5


Gil Evans Orchestra
1983.12.26 1st set
The Seventh Avenue South, New York City

Gil Evans(conducter, kb)

David Sanborn(a.sax)(1st)
George Adams(t.sax)
Chris Hunter(a.sax)
Miles Evans(tp)
Shunzo Ono(tp)
Lew Soloff(tp)
Sam Burtis(tb)
Mark Egan(e.bass)
Clifford Carter(synth)
Adam Nussbaum(drums)

1st set
1. Jam
2. Orgone
3. Friday The 13th
4. Friday The 13th(continue)
5. Up From The Skies
6. London
7. Eleven

Gil Evans, one of the most significant arrangers in jazz history, famous for collaborations with Miles Davis in "Miles Ahead", "Porgy and Bess", and "Sketches of Spain" started his large ensemble in 1970 in New York City and recorded unique albums such as "Svengali", "Plays the Music of Jimi Hendrix" and " Priestess " started his Monday Night Orchestra in '70s.
In April 1983, after recording "British Orchestra" at Round House in London on March 14th & 15th, he started The Monday Night Orchestra at Sweet Basil and other jazz club like Brecker Brother's owned Seventh Avenue South and Lush Life in Greenwich Village, New York City.
This series of recordings starts on October 10th, 1983 at Seventh Avenue South and ends on August 13th, 1984 that was a week before "Live at Sweet Basil" official live recording.
During this period, in addition to regular members of the Monday Night Orchestra including David Sanborn who did not play in the official live recordings, many surprise guest musicians such as Jaco Pastorius, Mike Stern, Bill Evans, Terumasa Hino, Kenwood Dennard appeard in the band.

Here are whole series of recordings.

vol.1 1983.10.10 1st and 2nd set at Seventh Avenue South
vol.2 1983.11.21 1st and 2nd set at Seventh Avenue South
vol.3 1983.12.12 1st and 2nd set at Seventh Avenue South
vol.4 1983.12.19 1st and 2nd set at Seventh Avenue South
vol.5 1983.12.26 1st set at Seventh Avenue South
vol.6 1983.12.28 2nd set at Seventh Avenue South
vol.7 1984.01.09 1st and 2nd set at Seventh Avenue South
vol.8 1984.01.16 1st and 2nd set at Seventh Avenue South
vol.9 1984.01.23 1st and 2nd set at Seventh Avenue South
vol.10 1984.02.13 1st set at Seventh Avenue South
vol.11 1984.02.20 1st set at Seventh Avenue South
vol.12 1984.02.27 1st set at Seventh Avenue South
vol.13 1984.03.19 1st set at Seventh Avenue South
vol.14 1984.03.26 1st set at Seventh Avenue South
vol.15 1984.04.12 1st set and 2nd set(cut off) at Lush Life
vol.16 1984.06.22 Kool Jazz Festival at Avery Fisher Hall, NYC
vol.17 1984.08.13 1st and 2nd set at Sweet Basil


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