Westbrook, Mike Concert Band: Marching Song: Vol 1 / Vol 2 Plus Bonus
Westbrook, Mike Concert Band: Marching Song: Vol 1 / Vol 2 Plus Bonus
Format: CD
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Artist: Westbrook, Mike Concert Band
Label: Turtle
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5013929580008
Genre: Jazz
Following the successful release on RPM of the Turtle Records box set in 2016, chronicling producer Peter Eden's early 1970's modern jazz label, we're pleased to announce a new series of modern jazz releases on the relaunched Turtle Records label. We begin with one of the most highly respected and collectable modern jazz figures today; composer, musician and band-leader Mike Westbrook. A pioneer of British Jazz since the early 1960s and still creating today. Our first release is a box set of Mike's 1969 work Marching Song. Underlining his collectable status, the original Deram LP of Marching Song is currently worth around £80. Ironically, the only previous CD reissue is just as expensive!Marching Song began as a one-off nine minute composition for a shelved album, recorded by Mike with a Sextet in 1966, previously unissued, it is included here as a bonus track on Disc 3. An expanded 15 piece Concert Band performance of the composition, by then developed into a 2 hour anti-war epic, first took place in 1967 at Plymouth's Athenaeum. The full piece was finally recorded in early 1969 and released by Decca Records in the UK on their Deram imprint on two separate single LP volumes. In 1970 the LPs were combined for a 2LP release in the US. The recordings were produced by Peter Eden, then in the prime of his modern jazz producing tenure with Deram, capturing the cream of the British Jazz scene which had steadily risen from the mid 1960's onwards. This box set also features on Disc 3 both sides of a single produced by Peter of Mike's Concert Band with Norma Winstone for a one-off single in 1970, never before reissued. Two further bonus tracks are on disc 3, a 16 minute piece entitled 'When Young' and a ten minute piece called 'But It Must Get Better', both recorded as the Mike Westbrook Quartet in 1970, and previously unreleased. This box set of the two remastered Marching Song volumes, plus the bonus material mastered from the analogue tapes in Mike's archive, are packaged with a booklet containing rare photographs from the 60's live performances plus a major essay on Mike, and these compositions, by noted jazz critic and writer Duncan Heining. The recording career of Mike Westbrook between 1967-1975, with 12 albums released, is detailed in a major Record Collector magazine article by Colin Harper published in April 2017. Plus news items published in Jazzwise magazine.
Tracks:
1.1 Hooray!
1.2 Landscape
1.3 Waltz (For Joanna)
1.4 Landscape (11)
1.5 Other World
1.6 Marching Song
2.1 Transition
2.2 Home
2.3 Rosie
2.4 Prelude
2.5 Tension
2.6 Ballad
2.7 Conflict
2.8 Requiem
2.9 Tarnished
2.10 Memorial
3.1 Marching Song - Mike Westbrook Sextet
3.2 When Young - Mike Westbrook Quartet
3.3 But It Must Get Better, and It Will Get Better -Mike Westbrook Quartet
3.4 Original Peter - the Mike Westbrook Concert Band with Norma Winstone
3.5 Magic Garden - the Mike Westbrook Concert Band with Norma Winstone
