For those unaware, Multi-Grammy Award-winning producer Ryan Truesdell reopens the Gil Evans Project vaults to release a new album of material recorded live at the beloved (now shuttered) New York City club, Jazz Standard.

Shades Of Sound: Live at Jazz Standard, Vol. 2 will be released May 30th, 2025 on Outside in Music, and follows in the footsteps of the band’s two critically acclaimed and Grammy Award-nominated albums, Centennial (2012) and Lines of Color (2015).

This exhilarating new collection marks the first time the band appears on vinyl and features some of New York’s finest musicians including Lewis Nash, Donny McCaslin, Steve Wilson, Ryan Keberle, Wendy Gilles, and the late Frank Kimbrough.

Picking up where Lines of Color left off, Shades Of Sound consists of four never before recorded works (“Laughing at Life,” “It’s The Sentimental Thing To Do,” “I Had Someone Else Before I Had You,” and “Neetie’s Blues”), and four of Evans’ well-known arrangements from his seminal albums (“Spoonful,” “The Ballad of the Sad Young Men,” “Barbara Song,” and “Buster’s Last Stand”).

1. Spoonful
2. The Ballad of the Sad Young Men
3. Laughing at Life
4. Neetie’s Blues
5. I Had Someone Else Before I Had You
6. The Barbara Song
7. It’s the Sentimental Thing to Do
8. Buster’s Last Stand

Continuing to peel back the hidden layers of Gil Evans’ musical legacy here on Shades Of Sound, this masterfully sculpted new recording opens on a beautifully elegant spell cast within Spoonful, then brings us the meticulously svelte The Ballad of the Sad Young Men, the shimmering Laughing at Life and the all-encompassing Neetie’s Blues.

Recorded May 13th-18th, 2014 by Grammy Award-winning engineer James Farber with the live engineering team of Tyler McDiarmid and Geoff Countryman during the band’s annual week-long engagement at Jazz Standard, the music continues onward with the note shifting brilliance of I Had Someone Else Before I Had You and that is in turn backed by the evoking The Barbara Song, the set rounding out on the impassioned It’s the Sentimental Thing to Do, closing on an emboldened Buster’s Last Stand.

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