Release Date: 23 November 2018
Label: House Arrest
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 888295803359
Description
The big band's third album, Presence, is a celebration of the warmth and spirit of the elder Evans. An approach to not only music but life that Evans inherited directly from his parents.
"Presence" features a scaled-down 11-piece version of Evans' long-running big band, recorded live at a pair of venues in his hometown of Philadelphia.
The line-up features a core group of collaborators that the pianist tends to refer to as "a family" or "a village" more than a band. Most of the musicians on this recording have played with Captain Black for years, while many of them have contributed compositions and arrangements to the ensemble's ever-growing book. But the 11-piece band also represents a distillation of the larger ensemble, pared down to a close-knit core of players that know each other very well, can navigate the music with the spontaneity of a small band, and simply enjoy the experience of sharing the stage together.
"This is a real, raw and honest representation of what happened on stage on those nights." - Evans
Tracklisting
Joe Farnsworth
Harold Mabern
Wayne Escoffery
Bobby Watson
Kevin Hays, Ben Street & Billy Hart
Buster Williams
One for All
Dean Johnson
Thomas Marriott, Orrin Evans, Luques Curtis & Mark Whitfield Jr
Charlie Porter, Nick Biello, Orrin Evans, Mike Moreno, David Wong, Damian Erskine, Behn Gillece & Kenneth Salters
Orrin Evans
Orrin Evans
Orrin Evans
Orrin Evans
Orrin Evans
