Michael Garrick - A New Serious Music

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: RANDB076CD
Barcode: 5060331752615
Release Date: 03 Sep 2021
Genre: Jazz

Pianist Michael Garrick was among the most boldly ambitious British jazz figures of the late-1960s, tirelessly pioneering various new fusions uniting his first love – straight-ahead jazz – with Indian music, liturgy and poetry. Featuring two previously unreleased sessions taped in 1967 and 1969, this album charts the course of his music from post-bop convention towards an indisputably ‘English’ jazz sound. Containing provocative live versions of several well-known Garrick compositions and an all-star cast, it truly captures the era in which UK jazz began to loosen its collar and let down its hair.

Tracks: 1. Good Times 2. Rustat's Gravesong 3. Rest 4. Beautiful Thing 5. Anthem (1-5 BBC Paris Studios, July 17th 1967) 6. Cascade 7. Face In A Crowd 8. On Track 9. You Are Winter 10. Childrens' Chorus 11. Thanksgiving Dance (6-11 BBC Radio One 19th October 1969) Michael Garrick, p; Henry Lowther (1-5), cor, vn; Jim Philip (1-5), ts, cl, fl; Ian Carr (6-11), tp, fh; Don Rendell (6-11), ts, ss, a-fl; Art Themen, ts, cl, fl; Coleridge Goode, bs; Trevor Tomkins, d; Norma Winstone (6-11), v.