Neil Ardley

Neil Ardley

On The Radio: BBC Sessions 1971

By Neil Ardley

Label: Dusk Fire
Released: 2017
Track listing: Stratusphunk; Tanglewood ��63; Half Blue; Pendulum; Terre De Miel; The Immortal Ninth; The Time Flowers.

Neil Ardley & the New Jazz Orchestra: On The Radio: BBC Sessions 1971

by Duncan Heining
August 27, 2017

Neil Ardley was a truly remarkable individual. As well as his work in jazz as a composer/band-leader/arranger, Neil was a scientific author with 101 books to his name, which sold over 10 million copies. I spoke to him once but, sadly, Ardley had died by the time I commenced work on my book on British jazz, ...

Neil Ardley & The New Jazz Orchestra: On The Radio: BBC Sessions 1971

by Roger Farbey
June 6, 2017

An hour's worth of archival Neil Ardley and the New Jazz Orchestra is always a welcome event since it features the cream of British jazz from the late 1960s, early 70s. But this CD is split into two half hour programmes. The first is a live recording of Neil Ardley conducting the New Jazz Orchestra for ...

A Madman��s Approach To Music And Why Can't Music Be Like A Tree?

by Duncan Heining
March 18, 2015

"Art alone makes life possible." --Joseph Beuys. The Glasgow Improvisers' Orchestra is unique. It's an over-used word, I know, but in this case fully justified. GIO are unique in so many ways--in the way they formed, the way they make decisions, in their make-up, how they work and most importantly how they sound. They ...

New Jazz Orchestra: Camden '70

by Duncan Heining
January 27, 2015

Colosseum toured with theNew Jazz Orchestra in 1970 but this is the first time that any records of that tour have surfaced. Jon Hiseman, Dick Heckstall-Smith and Tony Reeves featured in both bands. The New Jazz Orchestra recorded so little, that anything new is welcome. That it should be this good is an embarrassment of riches. ...

New Jazz Orchestra: Le D��jeuner Sur L��herbe

by Duncan Heining
January 24, 2015

I remember reading about this record in Melody Maker when it came out. These were all the people I admired in one band! Yet I never ever saw a copy until one day twenty years later in a record shop in Ipswich, I pulled this gem from the racks. ?2.50! I couldn't believe the price or ...

Norma Winstone: Edge of Time

by Roger Farbey
December 24, 2013

This reissue features many of the most significant musicians in British jazz of the late 1960s and 70s. It also benefits from imaginative compositions and arrangements by John Taylor, John Warren, Neil Ardley, John Surman and Norma Winstone herself. The opening, title track written by Taylor and Winstone is a memorable exploration ...

Kaleidoscope of Rainbows

By Neil Ardley

Label: Dusk Fire
Released: 2008
Track listing: 01. Prologue/Rainbow One; 02. Rainbow Two; 03. Rainbow Three; 04. Rainbow Four; 05. Rainbow Five; 06. Rainbow Six; 07. Rainbow Seven/Epilogue.