Format Details:
Release Date: 21 July 2023
Label: 33 Jazz
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5020883337951
Genres: Jazz  Contemporary  
Format Details:
Release Date: 21 July 2023
Label: 33 Jazz
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5020883337951
Genres: Jazz  Contemporary  
Description
The Brass Monkeys are an eclectic improvising wild bunch influenced by jazz, blues, reggae, country, free improvisation, soul, folk. Performing an exciting mix of original material and unusual classics they offer a reverent but maverick take on the history of musical improvisation. The repertoire is half original and a range of material from all kinds of sources including tunes by Herbie Nicols, Bill Frisell, Lillian Hardin and Lester Bowie.
The Brass Monkeys are: tuba/leader: Ben Higham (Monk Inc., Arthur, Loverly) / trumpets/flugels: Chris Dowding (Natural Causes, Rude 2.0) Charlotte Keeffe (Space Painters,The Anthropology Band) / French horn: Jim Rattigan (Pavilion, Haden/Bley Liberation Music Orchestra) / trombones: Annie Whitehead (Rude 2.0, Penguin Cafe Orchestra), Kieran McLeod (New World, Julian Arguelles Septet) / saxophones/clarinets: Paul Jolly (The People Band, Loverly, Sothiac) Rob Milne (Nebula Sun) / drums: Olly Blackman (Hackney Colliery Band, Quadracerotops)
Tracklisting
The Cadillac Kings
Zoe Schwarz Blue Commotion
Zoe Schwarz Blue Commotion
Theo Travis
Laura Zakian
Sarah Moule
Sketch
Zoe Schwarz Blue Commotion
Sultan Stevenson
John Patitucci
Tommy Whittle & Alan Barnes
Xhosa Cole
John Clayton & Mulgrew Miller
George Cables
Sylvaine Helary & Orchestre Incandescent
The Exu