Golden Hair (album)

Golden Hair is an album by jazz composer, arranger, conductor and keyboardist Gil Evans recorded in 1987 and performed by Evans with Laurent Cugny's Big Band Lumiere.

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars.

Track listing

All compositions by Gil Evans except as indicated

1. "Golden Hair" (Laurent Cugny) - 14:37
2. "Orange Was the Color of Her Dress, Then Blue Silk" (Charles Mingus) - 11:06
3. "Zee Zee" - 8:31
4. "C Blues" - 8:13
5. "Parabola" (Alan Shorter) - 10:00
6. "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" (Mingus) - 6:28

• Recorded at Studio Acousti in Paris on November 3 (tracks 1, 3 & 6) & November 26 (tracks 2, 4 & 5), 1987

Personnel

• Gil Evans - piano, electric piano, arranger, conductor
• Laurent Cugny - keyboards, arranger, conductor
• Christian Martinez, Stéphane Belmondo, François Chassagnite - trumpet
• Denis Barbier - flute
• Bobby Rangell - alto saxophone, soprano saxophone
• Pierre-Olivier Govin - alto saxophone
• Andy Sheppard, Charles Schneider - tenor saxophone
• Bernard François - French horn
• Gilles Salommez - trombone
• Philippe Legris - tuba
• Manuel Rocheman - piano
• Benoît de Mesmay - keyboards
• Lionel Benhamou - guitar
• Dominique Di Piazza - bass guitar
• Stéphane Huchard - drums
• Xavier Desandre, Marilyn Mazur - percussion

References