Release Date: 27 April 2018
Label: Turtle Records / Cherry Red
Packaging Type: Clamshell
No of Units: 3
Barcode: 5013929580107
Description
Our second release on the relaunched Turtle Records label following the highly successful reissue of Mike Westbrook's Marching Song box set..Gordon Beck, English jazz pianist and composer, broke onto the London scene in the early 1960s, joining the Tubby Hayes group in 1962 and forming his own succession of groups from 1965 onwards. A subsequent 26 album career established him as one of the most important musicians in British Jazz before passing away in 2011..The estate of Gordon Beck granted access to his own archive of analogue tape recordings which included various live performances over a 20 year period. None had been released before..Turtle Records is proud to present these excellent performances, now transferred and collated, which capture the group playing a variety of some well-known compositions plus a large number of Gordon Beck originals, which are surely a must for any serious modern jazz fan..The box set has been curated by noted Jazz aficionados Colin Harper and Simon Spillett, the former the author of the biography on John McLaughlin, the latter the biographer of Tubby Hayes who has also penned the essay in the booklet. With rare photographs from the lens of music photographer Jak Kilby..Presented in a clamshell box with individual discs in wallets, each covering a particular period and a 36 page booklet.
Tracklisting
Kevin Ayers
Wrath
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Tigertailz
The Fall
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Fred Hersch, Steve LaSpina & Jeff Hirshfield
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Chet Baker & Warne Marsh
Paul Desmond
Chet Baker & Art Pepper
Chet Baker - Gerry Mulligan Quartet
Shirley Scott
