New Jazz Orchestra: Le Déjeuner Sur L'Herbe [Vinyl 1LP 180g]

Modal Jazz / Contemporary
premiera polska: 2024-09-08
kontynent: Ameryka Północna
kraj: USA
opakowanie: Singlefoldowe etui
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Editor's Info
If one were asked to pick an album that represented the best of British jazz in the 1960s, Le Déjeuner Sur l’Herbe by the New Jazz Orchestra would be a serious contender. Recorded in September 1968, it draws together many of the key streams that had developed in British jazz in the preceding years, and also presages much of what was to come. Notwithstanding the line-up, which includes some of the very best British jazz musicians directed by an inventive and ingenious leader in Neil Ardley, the session features pieces written by the most distinctive jazz composers active in Britain at that time alongside idiosyncratic interpretations of works by John Coltrane and Miles Davis. And it’s all captured beautifully by engineer Howard Barrow and producer Tony Reeves and it features a stella cast of some of the greatest musicians, not just from that era or genre but beyond; Jack Bruce, who would become one of the founding members of Cream, Barbara Thompson, Ian Carr, Michael Gibbs, Dave Gelly, Dick Heckstall-Smith and Jon Hiseman, who went on to form one of the greatest jazz/progressive/rock bands - Colosseum.

Le Dejeuner Sur L’Herbe was released originally on the Verve label. Verve was a marque of MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc.), who acquired it from Norman Grantz in 1960. MGM established its British subsidiary MGM Records Ltd in 1967. Manufacture and distribution of MGM/ Verve in the UK was in the hands of The Gramaphone Co. Ltd. a subsidiary of EMI, so likely pressed by EMI Hayes, Middx, in 1969.
Verve is now under the Decca family banner at Universal (UMG), who have produced this 2021 reissue. It follows the now familiar pattern of 2020+ modern audiophile editions – high quality engineering from original tapes, pressed in Germany, klingt gut, sounds great™
UMG Reissue Labels, true to the original Verve identity

muzycy:
Jack Bruce - bass
Jon Hiseman - drums
Dave Gelly - tenor sax, clarinet, bass clarinet
Jim Philip - tenor sax, clarinet, flute
Dick Heckstall-Smith - tenor & soprano sax
Barbara Thompson - tenor & soprano sax
Derek Wadsworth, John Mumford, Michael Gibbs, Tony Russell - trombone
Derek Watkins, Harry Beckett, Henry Lowther - trumpet
Ian Carr - trumpet, flugelhorn
George Smith - tuba
Frank Ricotti - vibes, marimba

utwory:
A1. Le Déjeuner Sur L'Herbe (Neil Ardley)
A2. Naima (John Coltrane)
A3. Angle (Howard Riley)
A4. Ballad (Mike Taylor)
B1. Dusk Fire (Michael Garrick)
B2. Nardis (Miles Davis)
B3. Study (Alexandre Tansman)
B4. Rebirth (Michael Gibbs)

wydano: Sep 10, 2021 (1969)
nagrano: Recorded September 17 & 18, 1968

more info: www.decca.com