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Tony Haynes Has Left Town... But What A Legacy He Leaves Behind
by Duncan Heining
The death of my friend musician/composer Tony Haynes aged 83 from cancer is a loss both to his wife and children and to the musical communities of East London whom he served with such passion. A jazz enthusiast from his early teens, he studied music at Oxford and Nottingham, while at the latter working simultaneously as ...
Tony Haynes 1941 - 2024
by Chris May
It is with great sadness that All About Jazz reports the passing of Tony Haynes, the founder and for over 40 years the creative director of London's Grand Union Orchestra (GUO). Haynes left us on 17 September 2024. Under his visionary leadership, GUO did much to take forward the idea of jazz as a multi-cultural artform, ...
Music Is: Chris Biscoe Plays Mike Westbrook
By Chris Biscoe
Label: Trio
Released: 2023
Track listing: Music Is; Mama Chicago; Goin’ to Chicago; Aggro-Vancouver-Desperado; View From The Drawbridge; July ’79;
Wasteground And Weeds; Music Is.
Chris Biscoe: Music Is: Chris Biscoe Plays Mike Westbrook
by Duncan Heining
Chris Biscoe can trade choruses with the best and melt the heart with the tenderest of ballads. But that is not what makes him special. Live and on record there is always a sense of quiet anticipation as he starts a solo. One knows one is about to hear something new, something different. It is more ...
London Bridge Live In Zurich 1990
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.
Music Is: Chris Biscoe Plays Mike Westbrook
By Chris Biscoe
Label: Trio Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Music Is; Mama Chicago; Goin' To Chicago; Aggro-Vancouver-Desperado; View From The Drawbridge; July '79; Wasteground And Weeds; Music Is.
Chris Biscoe: Music Is: Chris Biscoe Plays Mike Westbrook
by Chris May
Chris Biscoe has played in the bands led by the great British composer Mike Westbrook and/or his wife, singer and lyricist Kate Westbrook, every year since 1979 bar one. He is the Westbrooks' first-call saxophonist and clarinetist and the love runs both ways. It also rings out on every track of this beautiful album.
Mike Westbrook: London Bridge Live In Zurich 1990
by Chris May
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 ...
Grand Union Orchestra: Made By Human Hands
by Chris May
Grand Union Orchestra, which has mentored many young London jazz musicians over four decades, is approximately aligned with the grassroots organisations Tomorrow's Warriors and Kinetika Bloco. The longest established of the trio, Grand Union took wing in 1982, Tomorrow's Warriors in 1991, Kinetika Bloco in 2000. Made By Human Hands is a greatest hits compilation celebrating ...
