Gil Evans Orchestra: Great Jazz Standards (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) LP HALLOWEEN 21 “Ballads” is often seen as

“Ballads” is often seen as a riposte to those short-sighted criticisms

Freddie Hubbard’s own albums tended to hew closer to the mainstream

Cold Cold Heart

Guitarist Grant Green was prolific on Blue Note through the early-60s recording more than 20 hard bop and soul jazz sessions as a leader forthe label between1961-1965

Lifeforce Part II

Gil Evans Orchestra: Great Jazz Standards (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) LP HALLOWEEN 21 “Ballads” is often seen asBlue Note, 1959 The brilliant arranger, composer, and pianist Gil Evans had already collaborated with Miles Davis on Birth of the Cool and Miles Ahead and made his own debut album Gil Evans & Ten for Prestige when he signed with World Pacific Records in 1958 and made the first of two albums for the label: New Bottle Old Wine with featured soloist Cannonball Adderley. The next year Evans was back in the studio to record the follow up Great Jazz