Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing in gatefold sleeve. Out of the Cool is a jazz album by the Gil Evans Orchestra, recorded in 1960 and released on the Impulse label the following year. Gil Evans recorded the album a short time after completing a six- week job at the Jazz Gallery club in New York. The music on this album was part of a move by Evans towards greater freedom in his compositions and arrangements, this 'new work integrated the written and improvised, at times allowing the balance to shift imperceptibly'. The Penguin Guide to Jazz selected this album as part of it's suggested 'Core Collection', calling it 'Evans' masterpiece under his own name and one of the best examples of jazz orchestration since the early Ellington bands'.