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Mike Westbrook Concert Band

Fuchsthone Orchestra featuring Evi Filippou & UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra featuring Jazzmeia Horn at Jazzfest Bonn 2026

by Artur Moral
June 1, 2026

Fuchsthone Orchestra featuring Evi FilippouUMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra featuring Jazzmeia HornTelekom Forum Bonn, GermanyMay 9, 2026  Its host city may lack the jazz pedigree of others, but the truth is that, barely fifteen years old, Jazzfest Bonn has carved out a place among its most prestigious German counterparts--those of Moers, ...

Tunes released on and inspired by Record Store Day, plus International Jazz Day flavours

by Andy Crowther
May 6, 2026

Music from Cuba, Argentina and Brazil, with a sprinkling of Andalucian vibes. New sounds from Emmet Cohen, Flea, Gary Bartz, plus Record Store Day highlights from Buster Williams and Charles Tolliver. Playlist Rob Garcia's Sizzle Ensemble “Maiden Voyage" from Sizzle Ensemble (Connection Works) 00:00 Emmet Cohen “Well You Needn't" from Universal Truth (Mack Avenue) 04:59 ...

Mike Westbrook Concert Band: Marching Song Volumes 1 & 2 Plus Bonus Tracks

by Maurizio Comandini
June 20, 2022

Mike Westbrook, pianista e soprattutto direttore di orchestra, è nato il 21 marzo del 1936 a High Wycombe, 50 chilometri a nord-ovest di Londra. Dapprima tentato dalla Art School di Plymouth, si dedica poi con decisione alla musica, dalla fine degli anni cinquanta. Nel 1958 forma la sua prima band per la quale gli capita di ...

The Last Night at the Old Place

By Mike Westbrook Concert Band

Label: Cadillac Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: The Few; Lover Man; For Ever & A Day; We Salute You; The Few; Folk Song; Flying Home; Sugar; Who's Who; Can't Get It Out of My Mind; A Life of Its Own.

Mike Westbrook Concert Band: The Last Night at the Old Place

by Vic Albani
October 8, 2018

Mentre il mondo musicale -così come lo conosciamo -rotola verso un'ignota “new life" e, specialmente il jazz, mostra più di altre tipologie musicali di voler tornare ad essere nobile strumento di difesa culturale in mano (almeno in questo paese e come tanti, tanti anni fa) ad un sempre numericamente minore zoccolo duro e puro fatto di ...

The Last Night At The Old Place

by Duncan Heining
August 1, 2018

By any standards the release of The Last Night At The Old Place will prove to be one of archive releases of the year, second only, perhaps, to the 'Lost' Coltrane album. All power, therefore, to Mike Gavin who has inherited the Cadillac catalogue from the late John Jack with his first release of archive material. ...

Mike Westbrook Concert Band: The Last Night At The Old Place

by Roger Farbey
May 31, 2018

This live recording which took place on 25th May 1968, celebrated the last night at Ronnie Scott's Club in London's Gerrard Street. Scott and his business partner Pete King moved the club in 1965 to its current location in Frith Street, but as the lease had a couple of years left to run they generously handed ...

Marching Song Volumes 1 & 2 Plus Bonus Tracks

By Mike Westbrook Concert Band

Label: Turtle Records
Released: 2017
Track listing:
CD 1:
Hooray!; Landscape; Waltz (for Joanna); Landscape (II); Other World; Marching Song.
CD 2:
Transition; Home; Rosie; Prelude; Tension; Introduction; Ballad; Conflict; Requiem; Tarnished; Memorial.
CD 3:
Marching Song; When Young; But It Must Get Better, And It Will Get Better; Original Peter; Magic Garden.

Mike Westbrook Concert Band: Marching Song Volumes 1 & 2 Plus Bonus Tracks

by Roger Farbey
May 31, 2017

It's hardly surprising that Mike Westbrook reigned supreme in the latter quarter of the 1960s and early 70s. His big band was voted top of that category in the late-lamented Melody Maker British jazz polls for 1970 (and the two years either side of that). In the same year, his third album, Marching Song, recorded a ...