MiKE WESTBROOK SEXTET - Montreux Jazz Festival 1968 (Remaster)

When I first heard this set posted back in 2017 by kinabalu, I think it deserves clearer sound. For some time it sits in my To do folder and now I made a kind of remastering. Hope you will enjoy it.

MiKE WESTRBROOK SEXTET - Montreux Jazz Festival, June 15, 1968       

MiKE WESTBROOK - piano
MALCOLM GRiFFiTHS - trombone
JOHN SURMAN - baritone sax
MiKE OSBORNE - alto sax
HARRY MiLLER - bass
ALAN JACKSON - drums
                                                                                           
2 tracks
45 mins

1. Out and About (Surman) 10:27 / Unknown incl. The Girl From Ipanema (Jobim/de Moraes/Gimbel) 11:28

2. Unknown 8:24 / Forever And A Day (Westbrook) 7:08 / The Lamplighter (Surman) 8:02

Mike Westbrook Band - Live in London '11

On request.

Rec. live at "King Place", London, GB, on April 2, 2011
(radio broadcast)

Mike Westbrook,conductor
Kate Westbrook,voice
Karen Streeet/Chris Biscoe/Chris Caldwell/Andy Tweed,saxophones
Simon Pearson,drums

1. The Serpent Hit [M. & K. Westbrook] 27:33

The Serpent Hit (excerpt)

Mike Westbrook Brass Band - Live in Willisau '77

"Whether he is writing for a trio or a 20 piece orchestra, Westbrook's
style is unmistakable. He combines instruments in unique ways,
twists conventional jazz forms into surprising new shapes and seasons
it all with delicate touches of humour and irony."

Rec. live in Willisau, Switzerland, on August 28, 1977
(mics recording)

Mike Westbrook,piano,euphonioum,conductor
Phil Minton,trumpet,vocals
Paul Rutherford,trombone,euphonioum,vocals
Dave Chambers,tenor & soprano sax,vocals
Kate Barnard,tenor horn,piccolo,vocals
Trevor Tomkins,percussions

01. Band Intro (00:43)
02. Unknown (01:34)
03. Unknown (02:20)
04. Wheel Of Fortune (12:54)
05. Kanonen Song (04:47)
06. Unknown (05:37)
07. God Bless The Child (03:15)
08. Mood Indigo (07:52)
09. Unknown (03:23)
10. Naima (06:18)
11. Unknown (09:49)
12. Let The Slave (09:47)
13. Unknown (05:08)
14. Sunrise (07:21)
15. Unknown (10:15)
16. Lady Howerd (07:40)
17. Alabama Song (12:30)
18. Unknown (05:11)
19. Band Exit (01:08)

Total Time 1:57:44

Mike Westbrook Concert Band - Release (1968) 192 LAME

BOROMIR SAYS ' For sol then, how about Mike Westbrooks's Release, which is about the only one of his that's OOP, It's a longtime favourite of mine. ITS A VINYL RIP,at 192 kbps (that was the norm a year or so ago).

Mike Westbrook Concert Band - Release (1968)

http://rapidshare.com/files/45382422/Release.rar.html

personnel

Mike Westbrook: piano John Surman: Baritone sax Mike Osbourne: alto Bernie Living: alto Nisar Ahmed (George) Khan: tenor Dave Holdsworth: trumpet/flugelhorn Malcolm Griffiths: trombone Paul Rutherford: trombone Harry Miller: bass Alan Jackson: drums

Most of these players went onto well-documented careers, but there are two enigmatic characters among them:-Bernie Living, who has a style similar to Kaoru Abe, and George Khan, who, to me, has more than a passing resemblence to Albert Ayler. I think both of these guys became lost to rock - Living was last heard of in a Manfred Mann band, and Khan in a jazz rock group called Sold Gold Cadillac. I can find no trace of either of them after the early 70s. What a waste of talent !

thanks for this b,it looks great!!

buy mike westbrook albums, hes one of the major composers in postwar jazz, and the british scene.