Dave Holdsworth

Unreleased 1974 - 2016

By Tony Oxley

Label: Discus Music
Released: 2022
Track listing: The Embrace; Ensemble 1; Ensemble 2; Frame; Combination.

Tony Oxley: Unreleased 1974 - 2016

by Chris May
September 12, 2024

The British drummer and bandleader Tony Oxley passed in 2023, aged 85, after a career which began in the mid 1960s as the drummer in the house band at Ronnie Scott's club. From this prestigious but relatively codified platform, Oxley soon steered into less travelled waters. In 1969 he was in the quartet which recorded John ...

Mike Westbrook Concert Band: Marching Song Volumes 1 & 2 Plus Bonus Tracks

by Maurizio Comandini
June 20, 2022

Mike Westbrook, pianista e soprattutto direttore di orchestra, �� nato il 21 marzo del 1936 a High Wycombe, 50 chilometri a nord-ovest di Londra. Dapprima tentato dalla Art School di Plymouth, si dedica poi con decisione alla musica, dalla fine degli anni cinquanta. Nel 1958 forma la sua prima band per la quale gli capita di ...

Wodgi

By Dave Holdsworth

Label: Self-Produced
Released: 2018
Track listing: Wodgi; Harambee II; Waiting for the Rain; Suite: Anytime Now �C About Time, To Quietness, Stump, Jalanga; Ten Day Simon; Lydia��s List; Too Late, Too Late; Beefa, Lickety Split; Perhaps Tomorrow.

Wodgi

by Duncan Heining
August 4, 2018

Trumpeter Dave Holdsworth has graced a number of key jazz recordings over the years, notably with Mike Westbrook, Barry Guy and Tony Oxley. At the same time, he recorded rather less than many of his peers from that important period in British jazz in the late '60s/early '70s. Instead of the vagaries of a career in ...

Marching Song Volumes 1 & 2 Plus Bonus Tracks

By Mike Westbrook Concert Band

Label: Turtle Records
Released: 2017
Track listing:
CD 1:
Hooray!; Landscape; Waltz (for Joanna); Landscape (II); Other World; Marching Song.
CD 2:
Transition; Home; Rosie; Prelude; Tension; Introduction; Ballad; Conflict; Requiem; Tarnished; Memorial.
CD 3:
Marching Song; When Young; But It Must Get Better, And It Will Get Better; Original Peter; Magic Garden.

Mike Osborne: Force Of Nature - Part 1-2

by Barry Witherden
November 2, 2017

Part 1 | Part 2 Some three-and-a-half minutes into Release, the Deram recording of Mike Westbrook's seminal suite mixing Swing classics with Westbrook originals, after a scorching solo by John Surman on “The Few," an alto saxophone cadenza emerged from a free ensemble passage: the tone was penetrating, incisive, severe, the phrasing intense, passionate ...