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Stonephace

Larry Stabbins

Born: September 9, 1949

Larry Stabbins was born in Bristol where he started learning clarinet at the age of eight then soprano saxophone at nine and graduating to tenor sax at ten. He did his first paid gig in his father's dance band at twelve and started a long association with pianist Keith Tippett when he was sixteen and Keith eighteen at the legendary Dugout Club in Bristol. At the same time he served his musical apprenticeship in local dancehall resident bands and countless soul bands.  He later contributed to many of Tippett's projects such as Centipede, Ark, Tapestry and the Septet. In addition to occasional duo performances, in the mid-eighties they also worked for a several years  as a trio  with percussionist Louis Moholo recording the album "Tern" on FMP, while Tippett was himself involved in various Working Week and Weekend activities and Keith's wife Julie sang on the fourth Working Week album.

Stonephace

By Stonephace

Label: Flynn Center for The Performing Arts
Released: 2009
Track listing: 01. Wedgehead Gets Lucky; 02. Twin Earth; 03. Yellow Brick Road; 04. Rotor; 05. Contextual Meaning; 06. Five Miles High; 07. The Last Myth of the Given; 08. White Queen Psychology; 09. Levels and Degrees of Light; 10. Essays For Alice; 11. Stonephace

Stonephace: Stonephace

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 21, 2009

Quella del sassofonista e flautista Larry Stabbins è una delle figure più originali e eclettiche della musica inglese: nel suo quasi quarantennale curriculum troviamo il sodalizio con Keith Tippett e l'acid-jazz ante litteram dei Working Week, la London Composers Orchestra e il tributo “Soupsongs" a Wyatt, per giungere ora al progetto Stonephace, ideato con il produttore ...