Results for "ASC Records"
Runswick Hymas Big Bands 1974-78
By Daryl Runswick / Tony Hymas
Label: ASC Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: When the Bough Breaks; Lainey’s Tune; The Generals Of
Islamabad; In Three; Love Song; Irene; Canto; Strains For Laine’s Brains; Dee Dee; One for Denis.
Daryl Runswick / Tony Hymas: Runswick Hymas Big Bands 1974-78
by Roger Farbey
British bassist, composer and conductor Daryl Runswick was born in 1946 and in 2019 is retired. His archival recordings have had something of a renaissance, at least as far as CD releases are concerned. Following in the wake of 2017's double album of previously unreleased tracks entitled Daryl Runswick: The Jazz Years and 2018's live quartet ...
New and Notable Releases
by Phil Barnes
Sometimes in summertime the living isn't quite so easy and life contrives to get in the way of finding and celebrating the great music that is out there waiting for us. This article is an attempt to distill personal favourites from the many releases that have crossed my path in the last few months--had time been ...
Positive Changes
By Dan Whieldon
Label: ASC Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: For E. P.; Marina's Song; Positive Changes; On Green Dolphin Street; 7; Waltz For Ronnie; Speak Low; Herr Piece; Prelude; Nardis; Para Ti; Wild Dogs; Repton.
Paris
Label: ASC Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Front Page: Freedom’s Crown; Propositions; Because; The Triumphant Entry; A Flower is a Lovesome Thing.
Bar-Room Piano: Sophisticated Lady; Gaudy Bar; Solitude.
Love Stories: Nahe des Geliebten; View from the Drawbridge; Tender Love; You Make Me Feel Brand New; A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square; The Sound of Caress; She Loves You.
The Blues: My Lover’s Coat; D.T.T.M.; Good Old Wagon; Blues for Terenzi.
If Thou Must Love Me.
A Bigger Show - Live
Label: ASC Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Gizzards All Gory; Juxtapositions; Freedom's Crown; Scattered and Cold; Propositions; Gas. Dust. Stone; Lovers Galore; The Uncommon Orchestra.
Mike Westbrook: Paris
by Duncan Heining
Listen to any number of Mike Westbrook records and you might want to ask, “Why doesn't he take a solo?" Aside from the occasional piano cadenza, Westbrook seems to prefer to let his compositions do the talking, ably aided by trustworthy musical confederates. Westbrook celebrated his 80th birthday in March 2016 and Paris is ...
Mike Westbrook & Company: A Bigger Show - Live
by Claudio Bonomi
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 ...
Dan Whieldon Trio: Positive Changes
by Bruce Lindsay
Pianist Dan Whieldon hails from Manchester and has been active in the North West of England's jazz scene for the last decade. Positive Changes is his debut release as leader, made not with fellow Mancunians but with players from Belgium--where he studied and where the album was made--and Holland. Bill Evans is an acknowledged inspiration and ...
