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Acoustic Sounds Series reissues from Verve/Universal Music Enterprises!
Monthly releases highlighting the worlds most historic and best jazz records!
Mastered by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound from the original analog tapes
180-gram LPs pressed at Quality Record Pressings!
Stoughton Printing gatefold old-style tip-on jackets
Series supervised by Chad Kassem CEO of Acoustic Sounds

A groundbreaking jazz recording by the longtime Miles Davis collaborator Gil Evans highlights the latters supreme and influential skills as a jazz orchestrator.

This album is a brilliant example of Evans ability to make a large orchestra sound like a smaller jazz combo using orchestrations that infuse the larger unit with the immediacy and spontaneity of the smaller. Out Of The Cool features some of Evans finest compositions, including the famous La Nevada as well as a magnificent performance of George Russells Sratosphunk. Soloists include Budd Johnson (tenor), Johnny Coles (trumpet), Ray Crawford (guitar), Elvin Jones (drums), Ron Carter (bass) and Jimmy Knepper (trombone). The ensemble is superbly recorded by the legendary Rudy Van Gelder. A must-have for all lovers of jazz.