Release Date: 31 December 2008
Label: Woodville Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5060053381148
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
Description
Following their much-acclaimed 'Songs For Unsung Heroes', the multi-award-winning team of composer/bandleader/jazz musician, Alan Barnes and playwright/lyricist, Alan Plater, have now come up with "Seven Ages Of Jazz" - the story of jazz in the UK in music and song. The all-star octet features Stan Sulzmann, Bruce Adams, Mark Nightingale and Brian Dee plus the superb styling of vocalist Liz Fletcher.
The saga begins in 1919, with the arrival of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band at the Hammersmith Palais, continues with tributes to home-grown musicians Nat Gonella, Ronnie Scott, Stan Tracey, John Dankworth and Cleo Laine, illustrious visitors like Zoot Sims and subjects hitherto ignored by song-writers, including Geraldo's Navy and jazz musicians marooned in bars at two O'clock in the morning.
Personnel: Alan Barnes (alto/baritone/tenor saxes, clarinet), Liz Fletcher (vocals), Stan Sulzmann (tenor sax, flute), Robert Fowler (tenor sax), Bruce Adams (trumpet), Mark Nightingale (trombone), Brian Dee (piano), Simon Thorpe (bass), Clark Tracey (drums)
Tracklisting
Alan Barnes Octet
Alan Barnes & David Newton
Alan Barnes & David Newton
Alan Barnes
Mark Nightingale & Alistair White
Alan Barnes & Ken Mathieson's Classic Jazz Orchestra
Ken Peplowski & Alan Barnes
Gilad Atzmon & Alan Barnes
Sultan Stevenson
John Patitucci
Tommy Whittle & Alan Barnes
Xhosa Cole
John Clayton & Mulgrew Miller
George Cables
Sylvaine Helary & Orchestre Incandescent
The Exu
