The Cutting Room Presents

The Cutting Room Presents:

The Monday Night Band: All-star Alumni of the Gil Evans Orchestra

Fri, November 21, 2014

Doors: 6:30 pm / Show: 7:30 pm

The Cutting Room, New York, NY

All-star alumni of the Gil Evans Orchestra reunite to celebrate the band's "Monday Night At Sweet Basil" era. Between tours, Gil's freewheeling, hi-energy band made it's home base in Greenwich Village during the '70s - perhaps it's "golden age" - during which the band won Grammys for "The Music Of Jimi Hendrix" and "Live At Sweet Basil", recorded on one of those Mondays. This lineup of dynamic NYC players were there, all of them internationally-known sidemen and band leaders. The credo is the same as Gil's was 30 years ago: Let's see where the music can go. And yes, they'll be playing Hendrix tonight - and recording the show.

DAVE BARGERON - trombone/tuba (Gerry Mulligan, Dave Sanborn, George Gruntz, George Russell, Jaco Pastorius)

JOHN CLARK - french horn (Ornette Coleman, McCoy Tyner, Carla Bley, John Scofield, Lincoln Ctr. Jazz Orch.)

MARK EGAN - bass (Pat Metheny, Sting, Joan Osborne, David Sanborn, John McGlaughlin)

ALEX FOSTER - sax (Jaco Pastorius, McCoy Tyner, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, SNL Band)

BETH GOTTLIEB - percussion (Disney Orchestra, Celine Dion, Natalie Cole, Bobby McFerrin, Victor Wooten)

DANNY GOTTLIEB - drums (Pat Metheny, John Mclaughlin, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Jeff Berlin, Manhattan Transfer)

CHRIS HUNTER - sax (Michel Camilo, Robben Ford, Manhattan Transfer, Manhattan Jazz Orch., George Gruntz)

PETE LEVIN - keyboards (Paul Simon, Annie Lennox, Lenny White, Wayne Shorter, Jaco Pastorius, Jimmy Giuffre)

TOM MALONE - trombone/sax (Frank Zappa, Billy Cobham, SNL Band, The Blues Brothers, Late Night with David Letterman)

LEW SOLOFF - trumpet (Joe Henderson, Ornette Coleman, Lincoln Ctr. Jazz Orch., Blood, Sweat And Tears, Carla Bley)


DAVE STRYKER - guitar (Jack McDuff, Stanley Turrentine, The Stryker/Slagle Band, Blue to the Bone Band)