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Wodgi
by Duncan Heining
Trumpeter Dave Holdsworth has graced a number of key jazz recordings over the years, notably with Mike Westbrook, Barry Guy and Tony Oxley. At the same time, he recorded rather less than many of his peers from that important period in British jazz in the late '60s/early '70s. Instead of the vagaries of a career in ...
In Memory of Lou Gare
by Duncan Heining
Best known for his work with the experimental, avant-garde collective AMM Music, Lou Gare began his career in jazz in the early 1960s, playing in one of Mike Westbrook's early groups. In more recent times, in Devon, he reconnected with Westbrook and became a stalwart member of Westbrook's orchestra and an inspiration to its younger musicians. ...
Mosaics: The Life and Works of Graham Collier by Duncan Heining from Equinox Publishing
Mosaics is the first biography of bassist, band-leader, composer, educator and author Graham Collier. Duncan Heining draws extensively on Collier’s personal archive, as well as on interviews with fellow musicians, ex-students and colleagues from the Royal Academy of Music. It locates Collier and his work within the social and cultural changes which occurred during his life ...
Mike Westbrook Concert Band: The Last Night At The Old Place
by Roger Farbey
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 ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Mike Westbrook
All About Jazz is celebrating Mike Westbrook's birthday today! Born in High Wycombe in 1936, Mike Westbrook grew up in Torquay and was educated at Kelly College, Tavistock. He formed his first band while studying painting in Plymouth in 1958, moving to London in the early 1960s. He has led and composed for a succession of ...
Presenting Problem
by Duncan Heining
Jazz often appears to exist within its own cultural and artistic paradigm, isolated from other arts and in its own discreet musical corner. Worse still from the perspective of those who would hope to make a living from it, it often seems that more people want to play the music than listen to it or, more ...
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.
Live 1972
Label: Hux Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Travellin’; Compassion; Marching Song; Spaces; Down on the Farm; Pleasure City;
Metropolis IX.
Mike Westbrook: Live 1972
by Maurizio Comandini
La meritoria etichetta inglese Hux Records recupera un live piuttosto raro del 1972 che vede protagonista una versione molto ridotta, in termini numerici, della famosa orchestra jazz del pianista Mike Westbrook. Il periodo è quello della transizione verso il rock-jazz di un arrangiatore molto apprezzato sia dall'establishment jazzistico dell'epoca, sia dal nuovo pubblico che stava sempre ...
Marcus Vergette: The Marsyas Suite
by Vincenzo Roggero
Le sue sculture--campane la cui forma favorisce particolari relazioni armoniche -sono state esposte al Guggenheim di Venezia. È anche agricoltore, regista e contrabbassista nella Mike Westbrook Orchestra. Si chiama Marcus Vergette e con The Marsyas Suite ci offre un lavoro di grande intensità e sicuro spessore. Ispirato a “La punizione di Marsia" di Tiziano (dipinto violento ...
