# CD review: The Gil Evans Orchestra – Live at Fabrik Hamburg 1986 – 2022: Video, CD cover

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2022/04/09/cd-review-the-gil-evans-orchestra-live-at-fabrik-hamburg-1986-2022-video-cd-cover/
- Published: 2022-04-09T05:28:23+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**Second release of the “Live At Fabrik Hamburg” series on JAZZLINE in cooperation
with the legendary venue and NDR Kultur – the concert of GIL EVANS in 16-piece all-
star line-up from 1986**

By the 1980s, the repertoire of the GIL EVANS ORCHESTRA had evolved into a distinctive
blend of HENDRIX tunes, the band members’ own compositions, and occasional recourse
to GIL’s older recordings. The compilation for this concert in Hamburg included 
four songs by HENDRIX, although only one (“Up From The Skies”) was part of an original
studio album.

Regular performances in Europe meant that the band’s audience was getting younger,
as it was here in the factory, and was also well acquainted with rock music. One
and a half years after this performance GIL EVANS passed away. Rightly he will be
remembered forever for the brilliant albums he recorded together with MILES DAVIS
and under his own name. In reality, however, he lived three quite contrasting musical
lives.

As most recently with his Monday night concerts at New York’s Sweet Basil, this 
Hamburg appearance recalls GIL EVANS’ fun-loving late phase. Here a superb all-star
ensemble played an outstanding concert of eight pieces in over two hours.

1. Stone Free (20:07)
 2. Up From The Skies (10:16) 3. Little Wing (18:28) 4. Subway(
23:53) 5. There Comes A Time & Birdland (23:33) 6. Sometimes (8:34) 7. Voodoo Chile(
8:55) 8. Orgone (17:12)

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