NAT BIRCHALL UNITY ENSEMBLE - New World [CD]

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: AAOS241CD
Barcode: 7141043768557
Release Date: 22 Mar 2024
Genre: Jazz

Nat Birchall returns with a new studio album with an expanded Unity Ensemble. Six original compositions played by a seven-piece group featuring the legendary UK tenor saxophonist, Alan Skidmore and guest percussionist Mark Wastell.

Both musicians joined the group onstage at a John Coltrane tribute concert at London’s Café Oto last year, the resulting performance showing just how compatible all the musicians were, so Nat thought it would be propitious to record the group in the studio with their special guests.

Both Nat and Alan are Coltrane devotees of the highest order, but they each have their own individual style, and at the sessions their playing complimented each other’s beautifully. With no trace of anyone attempting to “outdo” the other one the recording dates were a testament to the whole group’s selfless approach to music making

Adam Fairhall, Michael Bardon, Paul Hessian, Lascelle Gordon, Mark Wastell
Featuring Special Guest Alan Skidmore

Side A: 1. New World 2. Exaltation 3. Greetings of Love
Side B: 1. Jubilation 2. Elevation