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    Out of the Cool

    Out of the Cool is a jazz album by The Gil Evans Orches- 5. “Sunken Treasure” (Evans) – 4:16
    tra, recorded in 1960 and released on the Impulse! label
    the following year. The album was one of Impulse!'s first 6. "Sister Sadie" (Horace Silver) – 6:57
    four albums, released together, and featured a gatefold
    design and high production values.[1]:237 Tracks 2, 4 and 5 recorded on November 18 and 30, 1960;
    the remainder on December 10 and 15, 1960.

    1 Background
    5 Personnel
    Gil Evans recorded the album a short time after complet-
    ing a six-week job at the Jazz Gallery club in New York; • Gil Evans – piano
    the personnel was largely the same, with Elvin Jones be- • Johnny Coles – trumpet (soloist)
    ing added.[1]:235–6
    • Phil Sunkel – trumpet
    • Keg Johnson – trombone
    2 Music
    • Jimmy Knepper – trombone
    The first track, “La Nevada”, was also recorded by Evans • Tony Studd – bass trombone (soloist)
    less than two years earlier for the album Great Jazz Stan-
    dards; the version for Out of the Cool is given a consistent • Bill Barber – tuba
    rhythmic structure by Elvin Jones playing shakers, giv- • Ray Beckenstein – alto saxophone, flute, piccolo
    ing the rest of the band greater freedom and leading to
    a less boppish version than the earlier recording.[1]:236–7 • Eddie Caine – alto saxophone, flute, piccolo
    “Where Flamingos Fly” has a melody stated by trom-
    • Budd Johnson – tenor saxophone, soprano saxo-
    bonist Jimmy Knepper, and uses an earlier Evans ar-
    phone (soloist)
    rangement done for vocalist Helen Merrill[1]:237 The mu-
    sic on this album was part of a move by Evans towards • Bob Tricarico – flute, piccolo, bassoon
    greater freedom in his compostitions and arrangements,
    this “new work integrated the written and improvised, at • Ray Crawford – guitar (soloist)
    times allowing the balance to shift imperceptibly”.[1]:238 • Ron Carter – bass
    • Elvin Jones – drums, percussion
    3 Reception • Charli Persip – drums

    The Penguin Guide to Jazz selected this album as part of


    its suggested “Core Collection”, calling it “Evans’ master- 6 References
    piece under his own name and one of the best examples
    of jazz orchestration since the early Ellington bands”.[4] [1] Stein Crease, Stephanie (2003), Gil Evans: Out of the
    Cool: His Life and Music, Chicago Review Press.

    [2] Jurek, Tom. “Review”. Allmusic. Retrieved 2009-06-10.


    4 Track listing
    [3] Swenson, J. (Editor) (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz
    1. “La Nevada” (Gil Evans) – 15:38 Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p.
    74. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
    2. “Where Flamingos Fly” (Elthea Peale, Harold Cour-
    lander, John Benson Brooks) – 5:14 [4] Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2006). “Gil Evans”. The
    Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to
    3. “Bilbao Song” (Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill) – 4:13 Jazz (8th ed.). New York: Penguin. p. 424. ISBN 0-14-
    102327-9.
    4. “Stratusphunk” (George Russell) – 8:04

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