A Night At The Village Vanguard: 2CD Virgin Label Services The brilliant arranger Gil Evans

The brilliant arranger Gil Evans had already collaborated with Miles Davis on Birth of the Cool and Miles Ahead when he made his 2 excellent albums for World Pacific—New Bottle Old Wine (1958) and Great Jazz Standards (1959)—the latter featuring Johnny Coles

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I Will Wait For You

A Night At The Village Vanguard: 2CD Virgin Label Services The brilliant arranger Gil EvansMastered for the very first time from the original tapes. (The first release and subsequent reissues were made from a tape transfer.) As we began to prepare for this album, I made my customary call to Capitol tape vault archivist Jack Arenas to inquire about the analog master tapes. Naturally, I assumed there would be a set of Rudy Van Gelder assembled 15ips analog masters of all the material. Indeed, there was, but then Jack said something that