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For Future Reference

Label: Jazz In Britain
Released: 2023
Track listing: CD1: Chapter One; GRS; Celeste; Ugetsu; ‘Smatter; Early Spring; Your Eyes Are Love; The Right Moment. CD2: Zemlja; Summer Night; Three Four Piece; Evansong; Your Dancing Toes; For Future Reference; Ballad No. 1.

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Article: Album Review

Trevor Watts' Original Drum Orchestra: The Art Is In The Rhythm Volume 2

Read "The Art Is In The Rhythm Volume 2" reviewed by Chris May


A co-founder of London's pioneering Spontaneous Music Ensemble with drummer John Stevens in the mid 1960s, saxophonist Trevor Watts has straddled an unusually wide spectrum of genres. With SME he explored an area of free jazz which, in deliberate contrast to contemporary American adventurers such as Ornette Coleman or members of the Association for the Advancement ...

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Article: Album Review

Tubby Hayes: No Blues: The Complete Hopbine '65

Read "No Blues: The Complete Hopbine '65" reviewed by Chris May


"Who the fuck are you?" said Tubby Hayes, encountering Ron Mathewson on the bandstand of London's Hopbine club an hour or so before the start of the gig which this album chronicles. “I'm the bassist," said just turned twenty-one year old Mathewson, who had been booked to deputise for the Hopbine's regular bassist ...

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Article: Book Review

Neil Ardley & Ian Carr: Authoritative Studies Of Paradigm Shifting British Musicians

Read "Neil Ardley & Ian Carr: Authoritative Studies Of Paradigm Shifting British Musicians" reviewed by Chris May


Not-for-profit label Jazz In Britain is best known for carefully curated releases of historically important recordings made by British musicians in the 1960s and 1970s, most of them previously unavailable and sourced either from the musicians' own tape archives or those of BBC Radio. But from time to time, the label also publishes books.

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Trevor Tomkins' Sextant: For Future Reference

Read "For Future Reference" reviewed by Chris May


A 2-CD collection of four sessions recorded for BBC Radio between 1980 and 1983, For Future Reference is a snapshot, just one of many snapshots that might be taken, of British jazz in the period immediately before the so-called “jazz boom" of the mid to late 1980s. That boom was marked by an acknowledgement of the ...

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Article: Album Review

The Don Rendell / Ian Carr Quintet: Warm Up

Read "Warm Up" reviewed by Chris May


British modern jazz was gaining new confidence in itself in 1965, when Warm Up, subtitled The Complete Live At The Highwayman 1965, was recorded. It needed to be. As Simon Spillett writes in his liner notes, at the time “British jazzmen bravely fought a battle on two fronts, one against the stranglehold of American influence, the ...

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The Complete Hopbine '69

Label: Jazz In Britain
Released: 2022
Track listing: CD1: For Members Only; Off The Wagon; Where Am I Going?; What Is This Thing Called Love. CD2: Mainly For The Don; For Heaven’s Sake; Vierd Blues; Walkin’.

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Penumbra II

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

Album

Never Never Land

Label: Jazz In Britain
Released: 2022
Track listing: Start Right; Never Never Land; Chinese Wand; Third World Song; Jack And John; Your Eyes Are Love; The Story So Far; A Night In Amnesia; No Surprises; Your Dancing Toes; Zemlja; Richie Street N1; Third World Song.

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Fragment

Label: Jazz In Britain
Released: 2022
Track listing: Interfusion; Fragment; The Other One 1; Happy Landing / Easter Eve; The Other One 2; Room For Improvement; For Chris; Irene.


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