Jazz Articles about Neil Ardley

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Neil Ardley: Kaleidoscope Of Rainbows Live '75

by Chris May
March 15, 2021

One of the more obscure but loftiest masterpieces of British jazz, composer Neil Ardley's long-form suite Kaleidoscope Of Rainbows was released on the tiny Gull Records label in 1976. Its beauty and vitality have remained absolutely unsullied by the passing years and the album has been reissued a couple of times, most recently on Dusk Fire in 2005. In March 2021, the album has been joined by a previously unreleased live recording made at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall a year ...

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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, Trad Dads, Dirty Boppers and Free Fusioneers. While I covered his work with the New Jazz Orchestra, there was much more to be said. ...

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

by Roger Farbey
June 6, 2017

An hour's worth of archival Neil Ardley and the New Jazz Orchestra is always a welcome event since it features the cream of British jazz from the late 1960s, early 70s. But this CD is split into two half hour programmes. The first is a live recording of Neil Ardley conducting the New Jazz Orchestra for the BBC Jazz Club programme, which was first broadcast on February 14th 1971. The second half is also a BBC recording, but for Radio ...

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Neil Ardley: Kaleidoscope of Rainbows

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 29, 2008

Neil Ardley è uno dei migliori arrangiatori espressi dalla musica jazz inglese negli ultimi quarant’anni. Non ha forse la capacità di essere originale e innovativo come Mike Gibbs, ma certamente sa fondere molto bene le esigenze anche formali della composizione raffinata con l’energia tipica della musica della seconda metà del secolo da poco terminato. La Dusk Fire ha pubblicato recentemente su CD questo Kaleidoscope of Rainbows che era uscito su vinile nel 1976 e che rappresentava la terza ed ultima ...

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Neil Ardley: Kaleidoscope Of Rainbows

by Chris May
March 20, 2005

The last twelve months or so have been a giddying reissue bonanza for fans of British jazz from the '60s and '70s. A feast following a famine, of course, as most of the reissued music, much of it now on CD for first time, has been unavailable for over twenty years. That axis of key innovators and soloists from the era which was Neil Ardley/Michael Gibbs/Ian Carr/Don Rendell has been particularly well represented, with seminal albums resurfacing on Universal's Impressed ...

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Neil Ardley/Ian Carr/Don Rendell: Greek Variations & Other Aegean Exercises

by Chris May
September 10, 2004

Another masterpiece of British jazz reissued on Universal's outstanding Impressed Re-pressed series, where it joins other long unavailable classics such as Amancio D'Silva's Integration , reviewed last month.

Recorded in '69, Greek Variations & Other Aegean Exercises is irresistible on two counts. First, for its daringly conceived and brilliantly performed music, inspired by Greek folk songs and instrumental textures and deep enough to reveal all its treasures only after many repeated listenings. Second, for being recorded at the ...