これをはじめて聴いた時、高校の吹奏楽部に在籍してたんだけど、ジミヘンのナンバーVoodoo Child を聴いてチューバのヤツと、いっしょにのけっぞった記憶があります（笑）。 とにかく、呪術的なバスクラと個々の奏者のトレモロの濃淡が織り成すParabolaから始まって、おそっろしくクローズドなテンションを突っ込みまくりのUp from the Skiesまで、いろんな意味で、BigBandの地平・可能性を見せつけられたアルバムですね。大人数で音楽をやる意味とか必然とか・・・。本当に、音楽を知っている名アレンジャーの爺さんです。
This is mostly big band fusion although Voodoo Child is melodically pretty much straight rock.
I like the songs on this album a great deal. I think the long song "Blues in C" is the masterpiece here. It is based on a simple rock/fusion rhythm but there is incredible melodic complexity woven into the song, particularly a melody played by a chorus of brass instruments that recurs several times in the piece, in the latter couple cases in a somewhat different form from the first time, plus some fantastic instrumental solos on the trumpet, guitar, piano, etc.
It is appropriate that his band is referred to as an Orchestra since the orchestration here is on a comparable level to that you'll find in some of the best classical music.
I have something like 8 or so Gil Evans albums and I would have to rate this one among the top 2 or 3. Also with many jazz artists I tend to enjoy live albums more than studio albums and the fact that this album is live is an additional virtue as far as I am concerned.
If you like Gil Evans you are probably going to like this album. Although I wouldn't rate every single song 5 stars (not Voodoo Child for example) the best songs on the album are so good that there is no question in my mind this is a 5 star album.
Fingernails on a blackboard are more pleasing to the ear and more musical than the crap I found on this CD. I am deeply disappointed in Gil Evans. If this CD represents the direction his music is taking, then I am through with him.
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