Gil Evans spelade på klubben Sweet Basil på måndagarna och kallade följaktligen bandet för The Monday Night Orchestra: Gil Evans p/el-p, Lew Soloff, Hannibal Marvin Peterson, Shunzo Ohno, Miles Evans tp, George Adams ts, Chris Hunter as, Howard Johnson tu/bars/b-cl, Tom Malone tb, Hiram Bullock g, Pete Levin synth, Mark Egan b, Adam Nussbaum dr, Mino Cinelu perc. Två LP-skivor i enkelkonvolut.

"Gil Evans ran into his share of would-be defenders of his "tradition" when he began experimenting with rock songs and electronic instruments in the '70s and '80s....This....volume of songs done live during the band's long run as Sweet Basil's regular Monday night attraction proves decisively that neither Evans nor his band lost anything. The versions of Wayne Shorter's "Parabola" and Herbie Hancock's "Prince of Darkness" are multi-faceted and compare favorably with almost anything done by any previous Evans aggregation. It may not have been "cool," but it was most assuredly great jazz." (Ron Wynn, allmusic.com)
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