Great Jazz Standards

ReleasedSeptember 1959

RecordedEarly 1959
New York City

Great Jazz Standards is an album by jazz composer, arranger, conductor and pianist Gil Evans recorded in 1959 by Evans with an orchestra featuring Johnny Coles, Steve Lacy, Curtis Fuller, Jimmy Cleveland, Budd Johnson, Ray Crawford, and Elvin Jones.^[1]

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Allmusic	^[2]

v t e Gil Evans
Studio albums	Gil Evans & Ten (1958) New Bottle Old Wine (1958) Great Jazz Standards (1959) Out of the Cool (1961) Into the Hot (1962) The Individualism of Gil Evans (1964) Blues in Orbit (1971) Masabumi Kikuchi with Gil Evans (1972) The Gil Evans Orchestra Plays the Music of Jimi Hendrix (1974) There Comes a Time (1976) Parabola (1979) Where Flamingos Fly (1981) Collaboration (1987) [with Helen Merrill] Paris Blues (1988) [with Steve Lacy] Rhythm A Ning (1988) [with Laurent Cugny Big Band Lumiere] Golden Hair (1989) [with Laurent Cugny Big Band Lumiere]
Live albums	Svengali (1973) Priestess (1977) Gil Evans Live at the Royal Festival Hall London 1978 (1978) Heroes (1980) [with Lee Konitz] Anti-Heroes (1980) [with Lee Konitz] Live at the Public Theater (New York 1980) (1980, 81) Live at Sweet Basil (1984) Live at Sweet Basil Vol. 2 (1984) Bud and Bird (1986) Farewell (1986)
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