Results for "Frank Ricotti"

Frank Ricotti

Born: January 31, 1949

Penumbra II

By Karl Jenkins

Label: Jazz In Britain
Released: 2022
Track listing: First Movement; Second Movement; Third Movement.

Karl Jenkins: Penumbra II

by Chris May
November 24, 2022

Multi-instrumentalist Sir Karl William Pamp Jenkins CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) is a successful composer of classical, film and TV music. But before he went over to the Dark Side, the then plain old Karl Jenkins was a member of the Rebel Alliance and a pivotal presence in British jazz rock. He ...

Ken Wheeler - Some Gnu Ones

By Chris Laurence

Label: Jazz In Britain
Released: 2021
Track listing: Piece For Double Bass And Low Strings; C-Man; Baroque Piece.

Revisiting Tanglewood 63: The Early Tapes

By Mike Gibbs

Label: Jazz In Britain
Released: 2021
Track listing: Tanglewood 63; Five For England; Fanfare; June The 15th 1967; Sojourn; Canticle; Country Roads.

Chris Laurence: Ken Wheeler - Some Gnu Ones

by Chris May
December 15, 2021

The Jazz in Britain label has made its reputation with a niche catalogue of previously unavailable archive albums, mostly recorded live back in the day by jazz greats such as the saxophonists Tubby Hayes and Joe Harriott. With the lovely Ken Wheeler: Some Gnu Ones, the label ventures more or less into the present day with ...

Neil Ardley & the New Jazz Orchestra: On The Radio: BBC Sessions 1971

by Duncan Heining
August 27, 2017

Neil Ardley was a truly remarkable individual. As well as his work in jazz as a composer/band-leader/arranger, Neil was a scientific author with 101 books to his name, which sold over 10 million copies. I spoke to him once but, sadly, Ardley had died by the time I commenced work on my book on British jazz, ...

Chris Spedding: Songs Without Words

by Duncan Heining
December 4, 2015

Recorded for Harvest in 1970, Songs Without Words was only originally released in Japan. At the time, Chris Spedding was a much sought after guitarist in jazz and rock with one of the most impressive of CVs--Mike Westbrook, Michael Gibbs, Jack Bruce, Ian Carr's Nucleus, Pete Brown and Frank Ricotti amongst others. The reason for its ...

New Jazz Orchestra: Le Déjeuner Sur L’herbe

by Duncan Heining
January 24, 2015

I remember reading about this record in Melody Maker when it came out. These were all the people I admired in one band! Yet I never ever saw a copy until one day twenty years later in a record shop in Ipswich, I pulled this gem from the racks. £2.50! I couldn't believe the price or ...

Sound Stage 7: Powerful, Agressive, Thematic

By Frank Ricotti

Label: Original Jazz Classics
Released: 1982