| Svengali | |
| Type: | Live album |
| Artist: | Gil Evans |
| Cover: | Svengali (album).jpg |
| Released: | 1973 |
| Recorded: | May 30, 1973 at Trinity Church; June 30, 1973 at Philharmonic Hall[1] |
| Venue: | Trinity Church, NYC; Philharmonic Hall, NYC |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 40:41 |
| Label: | Atlantic |
| Producer: | Kenneth Noland |
| Prev Title: | Masabumi Kikuchi with Gil Evans |
| Prev Year: | 1972 |
| Next Title: | The Gil Evans Orchestra Plays the Music of Jimi Hendrix |
| Next Year: | 1974 |
Svengali is a live album by jazz composer, arranger, conductor and pianist Gil Evans, recorded in 1973 by Evans with an orchestra featuring Ted Dunbar, Howard Johnson, David Sanborn, Billy Harper, Richard Williams, Trevor Koehler, and Hannibal Marvin Peterson.[2] The name of the album is an anagram for Gil Evans.
The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4½ stars stating "one of Gil Evans's finest recordings of the 1970s. He expertly blended together acoustic and electronic instruments... Evans's arrangements are quite inventive and innovative. Rarely would he be so successful in balancing written and improvised sections in his later years".[3]
All compositions arranged and conducted by Gil Evans.