JAZZ FOCUS >> British jazz archival releases 2o21-2o23 on Mixcloud

Here we go with non-archival one for start: Elton Dean's tune Seven For Lee recorded by KEViN FiGES & YOU ARE HERE as first one in MY ONLY DESiRE Records 7" vinyl series of brit-jazz classics recorded by recent artists. Then there are two excellent sound quality GRAHAM COLLiER albums on MOD: British Conversations with Harry Beckett, Ed Speight and Swedish Radio Jazz Group from 1975 and sextet's Down Another Road @ Stockholm Jazz Days 1969. Next are numerous releases by BRiTiSH PROGRESSiVE JAZZ label: THE KEiTH TiPPETT GROUP on How Long This Time: Live 1970, another GRAHAM COLLiER with Where Will They Put The Blue Plaque Now suite, JOHN TAYLOR SEXTET's Eye To Eye: Live 1971, KENNY WHEELER BiG BAND with EVAN PARKER and CHRiS PYNE - Live 1971, MiCHAEL GARRiCK SEXTET - Fambrough Technical College 1965 and DON RENDELL SEXTET's The Odysseus Suite from 1970. One reissue by CADiLLAC Records follows: self-titled sole album by quintet JOY from 1976, featuring Jim Dvorak, Ernst Mothle and Keith Bailey. Back to BPJ catalogue with JOHN DANKWORTH ORCHESTRA on Composition with Colour: Live 1971 and concluding with ELTON DEAN QUARTET's Live at Teatro Cristallo, Milan 1979, including his trademark tune Seven For Lee again.

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PLAYLiST:

00:00 KEViN FiGES & YOU ARE HERE - Seven For Lee (7" single, MOD 2023)

04:39 GRAHAM COLLiER - Halo Round The Sun (British Conversations, MOD 2021)

16:05 GRAHAM COLLiER - Lullaby For A Lonely Child (Down Another Road @ Stockholm Jazz Days '69, MOD 2023)

22:02 THE KEiTH TiPPETT GROUP - In A Vacant Mood (How Long This Time: Live 1970, BPJ 2022)

30:40 GRAHAM COLLiER MUSiC - Where Will They Put The Blue Plaque Now - Part 3 (Where Will They Put The Blue Plaque Now, BPJ 2023, subscribers release only) 

33:41  JOHN TAYLOR SEXTET - Awakening / Eye To Eye / Awakening (reprise) (Eye To Eye: Live 1971, BPJ 2021, subscribers release only)

43:10 KENNY WHEELER - CP EP (Live '71: The Kenny Wheeler Big Band & Friends, BPJ 2023)

49:23 MiCHAEL GARRiCK SEXTET - Requiem (Farnborough Technical College 1965, BPJ 2022)

54:27 DON RENDELL SEXTET - The Odysseus Suite part 2: Odysseus, King of Ithaca (The Odysseus Suite, BPJ 2022)

01:01:20 JOY - Spirals (Joy, Cadillac 1976)

01:07:52 JOHN DANKWORTH ORCHESTRA - Altisidora (Composition With Colour: Live 1971, BPJ 2022)

01:12:45 ELTON DEAN QUARTET - That's For Cha / Seven For Lee (On Italian Roads: Live at Teatro Cristallo, Milan 1979, BPJ 2022)

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Blind Badger & Other Jazzy Fables

In this mix I was drawing mostly from recordings of musicians, who I call Brotherhood Family - members of South African Blue Notes and associated British jazzmen. Prominently featured are drummer Louis Moholo and pianist Keith Tippett, and also Elton Dean, Hugh Hopper, Harry Miller, Chris McGregor, Harry Beckett, Evan Parker and others. Click mix title to see full playlist on mixcloud.

These are my first three full ECM mixes.

Louis Moholo & Evan Parker together (on some occassions)

Saxophonist EVAN PARKER (b. 1944, Bristol, UK) and drummer LOUiS MOHOLO-MOHOLO (b.1940, Cape Town, SA) are stars of European free-impro-jazz on their own. 
Here my radio programme with tracks selected from the albums Spirits Rejoice! by LOUiS MOHOLO OCTET (1978), Bo kay la vi-a by FRANCiNE LUCE (1999) and Bush Fire by MOHOLO / PARKER / PHETTO / PHETTO / GUY quintet (1997) in 2oo6.

Album of the week: LOUiS MOHOLO / EVAN PARKER / PULE PHETO / GiBO PHETO / BARRY GUY QUiNTET :: Bush Fire (1995)

Louis Moholo - drums; Evan Parker - tenor & soprano saxes; Pule Pheto - piano; Gibo Pheto - bass (left); Barry Guy - bass, piccolo bass (right).

Recorded at Gateway Studios, London. July 1995.

Released as CD Bush Fire (Ogun 1997)

This is classy one. Crossroad of London free improvisation and London / South African The Blue Notes legacy. Quintet and various subgroupings.

Album of the week: JOHN ESCREET - Sound, Space And Structures (2014)

Evan Parker: tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone,
John Escreet: piano,
John Hebert: bass,
Tyshawn Sorey: drums.

Label Sunnyside Records [SSC1386],
Released 13 May 2014,
Recorded September, 2013.