This gallery contains 6 photos.
Selection:  Barley Mow . . .    2 Lullaby For A Lonely Child . . . The selection would have been Danish Blue but for the sad fact that it has a scratch through Harry Beckett’s solo. The record’s original … Continue reading
This gallery contains 9 photos.
Selection: Theme 6, Ensemble,Tenor solo and Tenor Cadenza, duet . . . Artists Graham Collier, leader, bass; Harry Beckett, trumpet; Geoff Castle, piano; Alan Wakemen, tenor/soprano sax; Bob Sydor, tenor/alto sax; John Webb, drums; recorded live at The Torrington, Lodge … Continue reading
This gallery contains 9 photos.
Another excursion into the progressive detachment of British from American jazz in the second half of the 1960s. This one heads further out into the realms of progressive big-band: lauding composition, fragmentation and complexity. If “The Sound Of Surprise” (W. Balliett) no longer … Continue reading
