I just downloaded this marvelous album. Holy Cow! What a great big band performance. This is a smorgasbord of steamy jazz dishes. Walk down the row and fill your plate. I am reproducing the notes that they sent me below. I am also playing the first cut on my Live365 station.
LINES
OF COLOR: Live at Jazz Standard, the sophomore album
from composer/producer Ryan
Truesdell's award-winning Gil
Evans Project, will be released on March 17, 2015 on the newly-formed Blue Note/ArtistShare label (www.GilEvansProject.com). This highly
anticipated release follows Truesdell's debut CD CENTENNIAL: Newly Discovered Works of Gil Evans, which won
a posthumous Grammy Award for Gil Evans and the New York Times called "an
extraordinary album.” LINES OF COLOR – the next step in Truesdell's endeavor to reveal
hidden layers of Gil Evans' musical legacy – features some of New York's
finest musicians including Lewis
Nash, Donny McCaslin, Steve Wilson, Ryan Keberle, Marshall
Gilkes, and Scott Robinson. The
CD was recorded by Grammy award-winning engineer James Farber with the live engineering team of Tyler McDiarmid and Geoff Countryman.
LINES OF
COLOR
was recorded during the Gil Evans Project’s annual week-long engagement at Jazz
Standard in New York City from May 13-18, 2014. It consists of six newly
discovered, never before recorded works (including “Avalon Town,” “Can't We Talk
It Over,” and “Just One Of Those
Things”), two arrangements with previously unheard sections (“Davenport Blues” and “Sunday Drivin'”), and three of Evans’
well-known charts from his classic albums (“Time
of the Barracudas,” “Concorde,”
and “Greensleeves”). Throughout the
engagement, the Gil Evans Project presented nearly fifty of Evans’ works, most
of which were performed live for the first time. Truesdell decided to record
live for the Gil Evans Project’s second album to honor the essence of Evans’
music that craves live performance. “It allows Gil’s colors and the overtones
of the music to sound and blend in the room in a way that you can’t get from a
close-mic studio recording,” says Truesdell. "Live recording captures this
intangible energy that’s created when music is performed for an audience. It
gives listeners a sense of the magic that happens when the notes are lifted off
the page by these amazing musicians.”
