Double Trouble III

Description

Legendary British free jazz bassist and composer Barry Guy presents his epic composition "Double Trouble III" performed by the London Jazz Composers Orchestra and featuring piano soloists Marilyn Crispell and Angelica Sanchez. It clocks in at over 55 minutes on this limited edition CD release from Maya Recordings, presented in a 6-panel digpak sleeve with additonal booklet.

"It was a moving experience on that Saturday evening in November 2025 at the Berlin Jazz Festival: On the stage of the Haus der Berliner Festspiele was the current edition of the London Jazz Composers Orchestra with a line-up specially assembled for the occasion. The work that was on the program was a new edition, but sounded - to my ears - no less exciting than a completely new composition. "Double Trouble III"...Especially in this new line-up, the composition celebrates community in diversity in a lively way. A delight in soloistic brilliance and orchestral clarity. At the end an amazing punchline, perhaps the most surprising concert end of the festival: a dry, immensely precise fortissimo beat; then silence; and finally: very loud, well-deserved applause." - from the liner notes by Roland Spiegel

Barry Guy: bass, director
Marilyn Crispell: piano soloist
Angelica Sanchez: piano soloist
Michael Niesemann, Mette Rasmussen: alto saxophone
Torben Snekkestad tenor & soprano saxophone
Simon Picard tenor saxophone
Julius Gabriel baritone saxophone
Andreas Tschopp, Shannon Barnett, Marleen Dahms: trombone
Henry Lowther, Percy Pursglove, Charlotte Keeffe: trumpet
Marc Unternahrer: tuba
Phil Wachsmann: violin
Christian Weber: bass
Lucas Niggli: drums, percussion