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With additional tracks, mastered by Jon Hiseman of Colosseum, and released with the blessing of Mike,\u003ci\u003eLive 1972\u003c\/i\u003e stands out as a document of the Westbrook project in transition, and as a bloody great slab of music in its own right pleated by a brilliant collection of musicians.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMike Westbrook: electric piano, harmonica\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Khan: electric saxophone\u003cbr\u003eGary Boyle: guitar\u003cbr\u003eButch Potter: bass, pongo stick, flute\u003cbr\u003eAlan Jackson: drums, alto saxophone\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cadillac Records","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50395844542795,"sku":"2164125","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_ed102d7b_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726473913"},{"product_id":"band-of-bands","title":"Band of Bands","description":"\u003cp\u003eBand of Bands' brings together key musicians from legendary British jazz pianist and composer Mike Westbrook's many small-scale projects\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Westbrook","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50433140326731,"sku":"2203243","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_4af8dde0_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726877281"},{"product_id":"metropolis-4","title":"Metropolis","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe English jazz pianist Mike Westbrook released his album \u003ci\u003eMetropolis\u003c\/i\u003e in 1971. In the height of the British-jazz’s golden age this concept album was recorded over three days in the famous Lansdowne studios. The 9-movement album shows the best of the London jazz scene with it’s big-band jazz sounds and funk-rock rhythms. In this collective effort, which included 23 musicians, the sum is greater than its parts and Westbrook worked-out the ideas really great. Musicians like Mike Osborne, Ray Warleigh, Kenny Wheeler, Harold Beckett and John Taylor all playing their part on this incredible record. The wonderful arrangements and chord progressions building on one of Westbrook’s best recordings. It is an absolute classic and a must for any serious jazz listener. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLP - 180 Gram Vinyl housed in Gatefold Sleeve.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Music On Vinyl","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50449286168907,"sku":"1046256","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/dfa65236-2b7c-4b28-918b-02594a44d3d4_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727101155"},{"product_id":"paintbox-jane","title":"Paintbox Jane","description":"\u003cp\u003eWestbrook \u0026amp; Company presents jazz cabaret \u003ci\u003ePaintbox Jane\u003c\/i\u003e, inspired by the painter Raoul Dufy, the jazz score is composed by legendary British jazz pianist\/composer Mike Westbrook (winner of 2022 Parliamentary Jazz Awards for Services to Jazz) and with book lyrics by Kate Westbrook. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTim Goodwin plays Raoul Dufy, with Kate Westbrook, Martine Waltier and Billie Bottle on vocals, Alan Wakeman on saxophone, Marcus Vergette on bass and Mike Westbrook on piano.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, Raoul Dufy paints a portrait of his muse, Jane. A troupe of singers and instrumentalists conduct a lively exchange with the painter about the meaning of art, his place in art history, posterity, plagiarism, about his friendship with Henri Matisse. The dialogue continues in song and repartee until the sun goes down on the sea wall and night envelopes the sensual world of Monsieur Dufy. \u003ci\u003ePaintbox Jane\u003c\/i\u003e was premiered in March 2016 at the Arts Club Vout-OReenees in London. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the next couple of years the show toured jazz clubs and studio theatres. The album was recorded by the late Jon Hiseman in his Temple Music Studios in May 2017. It has now been mixed and mastered by Ru Lemer. Since winning the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Award in the late 1970s with their jazz cabaret 'Mama Chicago', composer Mike and vocalist\/ librettist Kate have generated a succession of music theatre pieces. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey have written for the stage, for television and radio, and toured with theatre, dance and opera companies as well as their own ensembles, throughout the UK, Europe and beyond. Much of their work has been released on CD.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Westbrook","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50477933723979,"sku":"1162577","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/b309faae-6137-4ea1-8a19-279ac64b70a4_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727479104"},{"product_id":"love-and-understanding-citadel-room-315-sweden-74","title":"Love and Understanding - Citadel \/ Room 315 Sweden '74","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe debut performance of esteemed pianist \/ composer Mike Westbrook's cult 70s jazz masterpiece Citadel \/ Room 315, recorded live in 1974. Featured soloists throughout the album are the iconic ECM recording artist John Surman plus a crack team of top Scandi jazzers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe original RCA recording of \u003ci\u003eCitadel \/ Room 315 \u003c\/i\u003eis an hour-long suite of eleven tracks, beautifully composed and arranged by Mike Westbrook that is rightly considered to be one of the high-points of Brit-jazz from that era. Mike was commissioned by Sveriges (Swedish) Radio to write the work with Surman as lead soloist. He then travelled to Sweden to perform and conduct it for the first time, live in concert. This recording has never been released until now and presents a wildly different recording to the later LP, the rawness and freedom of the playing contrasting strongly with the more polished studio album. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSurman - playing baritone and soprano saxophone, plus bass clarinet - is in sumptuously freewheeling form throughout, soaring between wild expression and wonderfully controlled playing, perfectly complimenting Mike's compositions that gracefully move from jazz-rock, ballads, to tightly composed orchestral themes and more avant-garde moments. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBacked by the 16-piece Swedish Radio Jazz Group led by saxophonist Arne Domnérus and Argentinian trumpeter Americo Bellotto, the group comprised the finest players on the Swedish scene, including trumpeters Jan Allan and Bertil Lövgren, guitarist Rune Gustafsson, pianist Bengt Hallberg and drummer Egil Johansen. Between them they had worked with everyone from George Russell and Stan Getz, to Monica Zetterlund and Jan Johansson.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Only Desire Records","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50741777006923,"sku":"1086393","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50741777236299,"sku":"1086394","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/eee2a9a9-44b6-4c71-9ffe-765509bddd16_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1730599329"},{"product_id":"london-bridge-live-in-zurich-1990","title":"London Bridge Live in Zurich 1990","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first-ever release of this stunning 1990 recording of esteemed British jazz composer\/pianist Mike Westbrook's two-and-a-half-hour composition for voice, jazz orchestra and chamber orchestra, \"London Bridge is Broken Down\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA collaboration between composer Mike Westbrook and vocalist\/librettist Kate Westbrook, the work was inspired by travelling and performing in the mid 1980's through a Europe at that time divided by the Berlin Wall. It includes settings of poetry in French, German and English. Its five movements are entitled London Bridge, Wenceslas Square, Berlin Wall, Vienna and Picardie. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst performed in Amiens in 1987 with Le Sinfonietta de Picardie, 'London Bridge' was recorded at the Pathé Marconi Studios in Paris and released on Virgin Venture. The UK premiere of London Bridge took place on November 9th 1990 at St Anne's Church, Limehouse in the Jazz Lunarcy Festivaland involved the Docklands Sinfonietta (35- piece string and woodwind ensemble) directed by Rupert Bond. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe following day the ensemble flew to Switzerland to appear in the Zürich International Jazz Festival. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe new album \u003ci\u003eLondon Bridge Live in Zürich 1990\u003c\/i\u003e is taken from the 'live' recording of that concert made for SRF radio. 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