5036098005080

Big Band Harriott

Michael Garrick Jazz Orchestra

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Format: CD

Cat No: JAZA10

Release Date:  18 December 2008

Label:  Jazz Academy

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  5036098005080

Genres:  Jazz  Modern Postbebop  

  • Description

    The veteran British pianist/composer/arranger Michael Garrick has taken compositions by the legendary saxophonist Joe Harriott and arranged them for a big band. Eight of the tracks are taken from Harriott's "free form" period and the album is rounded off with "Cry of the Bitterne", a Garrick farewell to his old colleague, named after the Southampton churchyard where Joe was buried in 1973. Featured musicians include Garrick himself on piano, Steve Waterman, Matt Wates, Quentin Collins, Mick Foster, Alan Jackson and John Marshall.

    Recorded 2004

    Personnel: Michael Garrick (piano), Mark Armstrong, Steve Waterman, Gabriel Garrick, Quentin Collins (trumpets), Mark d'Silva, Jimmy Adams, Adrian Fry, Dave Eaglestone (trombones), Martin Hathaway, Matt Wates, Tom Richards, Bob McKay, Jamie Anderson, Mick Foster (reeds), Dominic Ashworth (guitar), Paul Moylan (bass), Alan Jackson, John Marshall (drums)

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Tempo
      • 2. Calypso Sketches
      • 3. Morning Blue
      • 4. Coda
      • 5. Straight Lines
      • 6. Little Poem
      • 7. Abstract
      • 8. Tonal
      • 9. Spiritual Blues
      • 10. Subject
      • 11. Count 12
      • 12. Formation
      • 13. Cry Of The Bitterne