Mike Westbrook Orchestra - The Cortege Live At The BBC 1980 (CD)
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Mike Westbrook Orchestra - The Cortege Live At The BBC 1980 (CD)

Mike Westbrook Orchestra - The Cortege Live At The BBC 1980 (CD) PREORDER

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A large-scale work incorporating settings of European poetry. The Cortege is a composition for voices and jazz orchestra with music by Mike Westbrook.

A large-scale work incorporating settings of European poetry - The Cortege is a composition for voices and jazz orchestra with music by Mike Westbrook

With texts from Federico Garcia Lorca, Arthur Rimbaud, Hermann Hesse, William Blake, Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, Pennti Saarikoski, and European Folk Songs selected and edited by Kate Westbrook - and is sung by vocalists Phil Minton, Kate Westbrook with a 16 - piece orchestra originally commissioned by Bracknell Festival 1979.

This BBC recording which predated the studio release on Original Records is now being issued for the first time, newly remastered from the original recording by long term collaborator Fiachra Trench (who as an arranger and composer has worked with many famous names) and Brian Masterson at at Soundscape, Dublin. Performed at concerts and festivals around Europe and at the BBC Studio, London, 25th October 1980 for broadcast on Jazz in Britain, BBC Radio 3, 5th & 12th January 1981 this recording is being issued for the first time.

The band include many well known British jazz musicians and many who have played throughout Mike Westbrook's long career at the pinnacle of British jazz from the 1960s to the present day. Featured musicians include: Guy Barker, Dick Pearce (trumpets, flugelhorns), Malcolm Griffiths (trombone), Chris Hunter (alto and soprano saxophones, flute), Alan Wakeman (tenor and soprano saxophones, flute), Lindsay Cooper (oboe, bassoon, soprano and sopranino saxophones), Chris Biscoe (alto, baritone and soprano saxophones, flute) and Brian Godding (guitar).

Track Listing

Disc 1:
  • It Starts Here
  • Democratie
  • Berlin 16.2.79
  • Knivshult/Ash Wednesday
  • Ruote Che Girano
  • Piano
  • Lenador
Disc 2:
  • July '79
  • Enfance
  • Cordoba
  • Santarcangelo
  • A Hearth Burns
  • Graffitti

Additional Details

Label: CADILLAC RECORDS

Genre: Jazz

Language: English

Region: 0

Release Date: 01/16/26

UPC: 5020675000452

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