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Out of the Cool, released in 1960, was the first recording Gil Evans issued after three straight更多>
Out of the Cool, released in 1960, was the first recording Gil Evans issued after three straight albums with?Miles Davis?--Sketches of Spain?being the final one before this. Evans had learned much from?Davis?about improvisation, instinct, and space (the trumpeter learned plenty, too, especially about color, texture, and dynamic tension). Evans orchestrates less here, instead concentrating on the rhythm section built around?Elvin Jones,?Charlie Persip, bassist?Ron Carter, and guitarist?Ray Crawford. The maestro in the piano chair also assembled a crack horn section for this date, with?Ray Beckinstein,?Budd Johnson, and?Eddie Caine?on saxophones, trombonists?Jimmy Knepper,?Keg Johnson, and bass trombonist?Tony Studd, withJohnny Coles?and?Phil Sunkel?on trumpet,?Bill Barber?on tuba, and?Bob Tricarico?on flute, bassoon, and piccolo. The music here is of a wondrous variety, bookended by two stellar Evans compositions in "La Nevada," and "Sunken Treasure." The middle of the record is filled out by the lovely standard "Where Flamingos Fly,"?Kurt Weill-Bertolt Brecht's "Bilbao Song," andGeorge Russell's classic "Stratusphunk." The sonics are alternately warm, breezy, and nocturnal, especially on the 15-plus-minute opener which captures the laid-back West Coast cool jazz feel juxtaposed by the percolating, even bubbling hot rhythmic pulse of the tough streets of Las Vegas. The horns are held back for long periods in the mix and the drums pop right up front,?Crawford's solo -- drenched in funky blues -- is smoking. When the trombones re-enter, they are slow and moaning, and the piccolo digs in for an in the pocket, pulsing break.
