Marcus Vergette

Mike Westbrook: Band of Bands

by Duncan Heining
July 23, 2024

For over six decades, composer, bandleader and musician Mike Westbrook has pursued a personal vision of jazz inspired by his hero Duke Ellington. That vision rests on the life-affirming, metamorphic potential at the music's heart. Band of Bands, built upon musical friendships old and more recent, is as fine a set of performances as any in ...

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 ...

In Memory of Lou Gare

by Duncan Heining
August 3, 2018

Best known for his work with the experimental, avant-garde collective AMM Music, Lou Gare began his career in jazz in the early 1960s, playing in one of Mike Westbrook's early groups. In more recent times, in Devon, he reconnected with Westbrook and became a stalwart member of Westbrook's orchestra and an inspiration to its younger musicians. ...

The Marsyas Suite

By Marcus Vergette

Label: Leo Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Mount Olympus; Lost and Found; Started I Can't Get; Nursery Rhymes; Day; Night; Gossips and the Hump; Foreboding; The Journey; Apollo; Coutry Brawl and Swagger; Poor Old Marsyas; Mount Olympus Reprise.

Marcus Vergette: The Marsyas Suite

by Vincenzo Roggero
November 15, 2017

Le sue sculture--campane la cui forma favorisce particolari relazioni armoniche -sono state esposte al Guggenheim di Venezia. ? anche agricoltore, regista e contrabbassista nella Mike Westbrook Orchestra. Si chiama Marcus Vergette e con The Marsyas Suite ci offre un lavoro di grande intensit�� e sicuro spessore. Ispirato a “La punizione di Marsia" di Tiziano (dipinto violento ...