Into the Hot (Gil Evans album)

Into the Hot
Studio album by Gil Evans
Released	January 1962[1]
Recorded	September 14, October 6, 10 & 31, 1961
Studio	Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre	Jazz
Length	41:30
Label	Impulse! A-9
Producer	Creed Taylor
Gil Evans chronology
Out of the Cool (1961) Into the Hot (1962) The Individualism of Gil Evans (1964)
Cecil Taylor chronology
New York City R&B (1961) Into the Hot (1962) Nefertiti, the Beautiful One Has Come (1962)

Into the Hot is an album released under the auspices of Gil Evans featuring a large ensemble under the direction of John Carisi and the Cecil Taylor Unit.^[2] The album was released on the Impulse! label in 1962.

Composer/trumpeter John Carisi's three tracks are performed by an orchestra drawn from the top ranks of New York jazz and studio musicians and features solos by Phil Woods.

Cecil Taylor's contribution consists of two tracks by Taylor and a quintet with Archie Shepp, Jimmy Lyons, Henry Grimes and Sunny Murray. The group expanded to a septet with the addition of Ted Curson and Roswell Rudd on a third track.

The Cecil Taylor recordings from this album were also released on Mixed in 1998, along with tracks by Roswell Rudd's sextet, as well as on The Dedication Series Vol. III: The New Breed (1978).^[3]