Svengali is a live album by jazz composer, arranger, conductor and pianist Gil Evans, recorded in 1973 by Evans with an orchestra featuring Ted Dunbar, Howard Johnson, David Sanborn, Billy Harper, Richard Williams, Trevor Koehler, and Hannibal Marvin Peterson. The name of the album is an anagram of Gil Evans.
The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4ý stars stating "one of Gil Evans's finest recordings of the 1970s. He expertly blended together acoustic and electronic instruments... Evans's arrangements are quite inventive and innovative. Rarely would he be so successful in balancing written and improvised sections in his later years".
DownBeat reviewer Chuck Mitchell gave the release 5 stars. Mitchell wrote, "Evans is a sonic sorcerer whose vision is conjured out of eerily shifting melodic landscapes, flights of harmonic fantasy, and ambiguous, seductive rhythmic settings".