Results for "Alan Wakeman"

Alan Wakeman

Born: October 13, 1947

London Bridge Live In Zurich 1990

By Mike Westbrook

Label: Westbrook Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: CD1: LONDON BRIDGE: London Bridge Is Broken Down. WENCESLAS SQUARE: Wenceslas Square. BERLIN WALL: Nahe Des Geliebten; Traurig Aber Falsch. CD2: Ein Vogel. VIENNA: Viennese Waltz; Fur Sie; Blighters; Les Morts. PICARDIE: Picardie; Une Fenetre; Aucassin Et Nicolette.

Mike Westbrook: London Bridge Live In Zurich 1990

by Chris May
November 15, 2022

Viewed from the other side of the Atlantic, Mike Westbrook is probably Britain's best kept secret. A composer, pianist and tubaist--above all, composer--Westbrook's recording career began in the late 1960s. Since then he has released upwards of fifty albums, spanning jazz rock through jazz and contemporary-classical fusions such as the 2 x CD London Bridge Live ...

Henry Lowther's Quarternity: Never Never Land

by Chris May
September 2, 2022

The British trumpeter and composer Henry Lowther, who first made an impact in the 1960s and released the well received album Can't Believe, Won't Believe (Village Life) in 2018, came to jazz via a circuitous route. After playing cornet in a provincial Salvation Army band, he moved to London around 1960 to study violin at the ...

Octets and Octopi

by Patrick Burnette
January 28, 2021

Hooray—we've made it alive through 2020 and through eight seasons of this podcast, too. To celebrate the big “eighth" (the internet claims it's bronze and pottery for that anniversary, should you want to send gifts) we talk about half that many jazz octets, and throw in an album named after a funky sea-creature as a bonus. ...

The Octet Broadcasts 1969 and 1979

By Alan Wakeman

Label: Gearbox Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Disc One: Dreams; Forever; Merry-Go-Round. Disc Two: Chaturanga; Manhattan Variation; Vienna; Robatsch Defense; Kingside Breakthrough.

Alan Wakeman: The Octet Broadcasts 1969 and 1979

by Chris May
August 23, 2020

Despite a perception fostered by the more breathless media coverage given to the young lions who have emerged on the London scene since the mid 2010s, an identifiably British strand of jazz did not kick off when Shabaka Hutchings' Sons Of Kemet released its debut album in 2013. The groundwork was laid back in the 1950s ...

Mike Westbrook Orchestra: Catania

by Ian Patterson
August 19, 2019

A major figure in British jazz since the late 1950s, composer-pianist Mike Westbrook continues to write, perform and record at a rate of knots which would leave contenders half his 83 years on the ropes. Four albums since 2016, including--after a gap of forty years—not one but two solo piano recordings, are testament to the creative ...

Wodgi

by Duncan Heining
August 4, 2018

Trumpeter Dave Holdsworth has graced a number of key jazz recordings over the years, notably with Mike Westbrook, Barry Guy and Tony Oxley. At the same time, he recorded rather less than many of his peers from that important period in British jazz in the late '60s/early '70s. Instead of the vagaries of a career in ...

Mike Westbrook & Company: A Bigger Show - Live

by Claudio Bonomi
June 27, 2016

Lo scorso marzo Mike Westbrook ha compiuto 80 anni, un traguardo festeggiato degnamente con un nuovo doppio album realizzato con la Uncommon Orchestra, ensemble di 21 elementi che include tre vocalist dell'eccezione: l'inseparabile moglie Kate, autrice anche dei testi dell'opera, e due vecchie conoscenze e collaboratori dei Westbrook, Billy Bottle e Martine Waltier. Era ...