Album · 2007
Tracklist
dZF
1-01 Prologue 0:45
1-02 Overture: The T Dance 5:46
1-03 A Guy, Three Chicks And A Big Snake 7:15
1-04 Part I: The Viper 4:23
1-05 Part II: Three Ladies In Waiting 4:13
1-06 Part III: Bird Carter 8:48
1-07 Part IV: Queen Righteous 5:54
1-08 Ghost Dance 6:04
1-09 Trick Of The Night 7:27
1-10 On Temple Street 4:26
1-11 Many Splendid Things 7:07
1-12 Power Trip 3:19
1-13 The Last Waltz 5:29
1-14 Coda: Everthings Happens To Bobby 0:53
The Amadeus Suites
2-01 Wolfie
2-02 How Sweet The Breeze
2-03 Piccolo Part I: Serpent's Teeth
2-04 Part II: Les Trois Dames
2-05 Part III: Pamina's Portait
2-06 Part IV: Finale 'In Colin's Town'
2-07 Cruel Stars And Sighs
2-08 Weeping And Wailing
Line-up/Musicians
Bass – Phil Donkin
Drums, Percussion – Ralph Salmins
Narrator – Michael Brandon (tracks: 1-01 to 1-14)
Piano, Electric Piano [Fender Rhodes], Organ [Hammond] – Jim Watson
Saxophone [Alto, Soprano] – Rosario Giuliani
Saxophone [Baritone], Tuba, Flute, Flute [Alto], Piccolo Flute – Phil Todd
Saxophone [Tenor], Clarinet [Contrabass], Clarinet, Flute – Per 'Texas' Johansson
Saxophone [Tenor], Clarinet, Flute – Graeme Blevins
Script By [Story] – Robert Ryan (tracks: 1-01 to 1-14)
Trombone – Alistair White, Barnaby Dickinson
Trombone [Bass] – Mark Frost
Trumpet, Composed By, Arranged By, Conductor – Guy Barker
Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Byron Wallen, Nathan Bray, Tom Rees Roberts
About this release
Global Mix – GM2CD02 (UK)
A project that combines 2 of Barker's commissions; one for San Diego's Mainly Mozart Festival and the other for BBC 3's 'Jazz Line Up' - 'DZf' a 75-minute suite for Jazz Orchestra and Narrator, a 'jazz noir' re-imagining of The Majic Flute, Mozart's final opera (Die Zauberflote). 'The Amadeus Suite' is a set of inspired by characters from Mozart's operas.
Recorded at Angel Recording Studios on 8, 14 & 15 May 2007
Thanks to snobb for the addition and js for the updates