title: Farewell (Gil Evans album)
text: # Farewell (Gil Evans album)
  
  Farewell is a live album by jazz composer, arranger, conductor and pianist Gil Evans which was released posthumously to address for the deceased. This album was recorded by King Records (Japan) in New York in 1986 featuring Evans with his Monday Night Orchestra which included Hamiet Bluiett, Bill Evans, and Johnny Coles and originally released in Japan on the King label.
  
  ## Reception
  
  Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars stating "The Gil Evans Monday Night orchestra ripped through the four cuts on this '86 session, often at a torrid pace. Even when they slowed things down, the solos were often done at fever-pitch levels".
  
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  ## Track listing
  
  All compositions by Gil Evans except where noted.
  
  * "Let the Juice Loose" (Bill Evans) - 12:01
  * "Your Number" - 14:12
  * "Waltz" - 19:55
  * "Little Wing" (Jimi Hendrix) - 15:54
  * Recorded at Sweet Basil in NYC on December 1, 1986 (track 3) and December 22, 1986 (tracks 1, 2 & 4)
  
  ## Personnel
  
  * Gil Evans - piano, electric piano, arranger, conductor
  * Lew Soloff, Shunzo Ohno, Miles Evans - trumpet
  * Johnny Coles - flugelhorn (track 1)
  * Dave Bargeron - trombone
  * Dave Taylor - bass trombone
  * John Clark - French horn, hornette
  * Chris Hunter - alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute
  * Bill Evans - tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute
  * Hamiet Bluiett - baritone saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet
  * Hiram Bullock - guitar
  * Pete Levin, Gil Goldstein - keyboards
  * Mark Egan - electric bass
  * Danny Gottlieb - drums
  