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Harry Beckett
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West Indian Harry Beckett, born in Barbados, brought his own highly personal approaches to the trumpet to the cultural stew of the mid- to late 1960s.
Such is the distinctiveness of Beckett's playing that it continues to be the musical equivalent of DNA, and the elements of it were in place by the time he gained a significant break on record in the band of bass player and composer Graham Collier. Down Another Road, recorded in March of 1969, finds Beckett playing flugelhorn exclusively. August 1970 both Beckett and Evans were working with guitarist Ray Russell on his Rites And Rituals album. As the 1970s progressed the British jazz scene maintained creative momentum
Mike Westbrook: The Cortège Live At The BBC 1980
by Duncan Heining
Mike Westbrook turns ninety on 21st March. That would be reason enough to celebrate the man and his astonishing career in music, but add to that the release of the Mike Westbrook Orchestra's The Cortège Live at the BBC 1980 and balloons and bunting would seem in order. The original album is currently missing ...
Ogun Recordings: Small Is Beautiful
by Duncan Heining
In 2023, Ogun Recordings celebrated its fiftieth anniversary, making it the longest living independent British jazz label. It was a huge achievement for an undertaking that was begun somewhat reluctantly by its co-creators ex-pat South African bassist Harry Miller, his partner Hazel and recording engineer Keith Beal and was run out of the Miller's home in ...
Dom Salvador, Chris Bangs, Harry Beckett, Jenny Scheinman, And More
by Tony Poole
12 brand new tracks... Tony Poole, former BBC jazz presenter, presents his favourite tracks released over the past seven days or so. Jazz, Jazz Not Jazz, you decide! Playlist John Beasley and the hr-Bigband & Frankfurt Radio Big Band “Vulcan Worlds" from Returning To Forever (Candid) 00:00 Sly5thAve “Liberation" (Jamz Supernova & Sam Interface ...
Down Another Road @ Stockholm Jazz Days ’69
Label: My Only Desire Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Burblings For Bob; Molewrench Intro; Molewrench; Lullabye For A Lonely Child Intro; Lullabye For A Lonely Child; Down Another Road Intro; Down Another Road; The Barley Mow Intro; The Barley Mow; Aberdeen Angus Intro; Aberdeen Angus.
Graham Collier: Down Another Road @ Stockholm Jazz Days ’69
by Chris May
In 1969, when the composer and bassist Graham Collier took his sextet to Stockholm Jazz Days to give a live performance of their album Down Another Road (Fontana, 1969), the presence of a British band onstage at a European jazz festival was exceptional. The idea that British musicians would one day have their names on the ...
John Taylor Sextet: Fragment
by Chris May
The not-for-profit Jazz In Britain label is one of the unsung heroes of British jazz. And if it is being sung, apologies, it deserves to be sung louder. While it is fitting that the musicians who make up London's new alternative jazz scene receive a massive shout out, the players who came before them, who paved ...
Solar Session
By Ian Carr
Label: Jazz In Britain
Released: 2021
Track listing: Element 1; Bedrock Deadlock; Spirit Level; Torso; Snakehips’ Dream.
Revisiting Tanglewood 63: The Early Tapes
By Mike Gibbs
Label: Jazz In Britain
Released: 2021
Track listing: Tanglewood 63; Five For England; Fanfare; June The 15th 1967; Sojourn; Canticle; Country
Roads.
Frode Gjerstad / Kent Carter / John Stevens: Detail - 90
by John Eyles
The group Detail first played together in December 1981. After a short period when the Norwegian pianist Eiven One Pederson was a member, it stabilised as a trio comprising Norwegian saxophonist Frode Gjerstad, South African bassist (and one-time Blue Note artist) Johnny Dyani, and British drummer John Stevens; these three recorded the group's first album, Backwards ...
