| Live at Sweet Basil | |
| Type: | Live album |
| Artist: | Gil Evans & the Monday Night Orchestra |
| Cover: | Live at Sweet Basil (Gil Evans album).jpg |
| Released: | 1985 |
| Recorded: | August 20 & 27, 1984 |
| Venue: | Sweet Basil, NYC |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 71:27 |
| Producer: | Horst Liepolt & Shigeyuki Kawashima |
| Chronology: | Gil Evans |
| Prev Title: | British Orchestra |
| Prev Year: | 1983 |
| Next Title: | Live at Sweet Basil Vol. 2 |
| Next Year: | 1987 |
Live Sweet Basil is a live album by jazz composer, arranger, conductor and pianist Gil Evans recorded by King Records (Japan) in New York in 1984 featuring Evans with his Monday Night Orchestra which included George Adams, Howard Johnson, and Lew Soloff and originally released in the US on the Gramavision label.[1]
Gil Evans' Monday night marathon sessions at "Sweet Basil Jazz Club" was originally a started as a workshop in April 1983 to select players and do rehearsals for preparing his Japan tour in May. As the performance at the workshop got attentions and had good reputation, the club asked Gil to continue the stage periodically on Monday from June, after the Japan tour.[2]
AllMusic awarded the album 2 stars, stating, "It may not have been "cool," but it was most assuredly great jazz".[3]