MIKE WESTBROOK — Marching Song Vol. 1

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Album · 1969

Tracklist

A1 Hooray!
A2 Landscape
A3 Waltz (for Joanna)
B1 Landscape (II)
B2 Other World
B3 Marching Song

Line-up/Musicians

Bass – Barre Phillips, Chris Laurence, Harry Miller
Directed By [Musical Director] – Mike Westbrook
Drums – Alan Jackson, John Marshall
French Horn – Tom Bennelick
Piano, Composed By, Directed By [Musical Director] – Mike Westbrook
Saxophone [Alto, Baritone], Flute – John Warren
Saxophone [Alto], Clarinet – Mike Osborne
Saxophone [Alto], Flute, Piccolo Flute – Bernie Living
Saxophone [Baritone, Soprano], Directed By [Musical Director] – John Surman
Saxophone [Tenor] – Brian Smith, Nisar Ahmed Khan
Saxophone [Tenor], Flute – Alan Skidmore
Trombone – Malcolm Griffiths, Michael Gibbs, Paul Rutherford
Trombone, Directed By [Musical Director] – Eddie Harvey
Trumpet – Greg Bowen, Henry Lowther, Ronnie Hughes, Tony Fisher
Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Dave Holdsworth, Kenny Wheeler
Tuba – George Smith, Martin Fry

About this release

Deram – SML 1047

Thanks to Sean Trane for the addition and snobb for the updates



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Sean Trane
If memory serves, Westbrook and a few London jazz scene stalwarts all were part of their armies’ jazz marching bands; and apparently for some, it had some lasting impact, to the point of dedicating album in the course of the pacifist-era in the heart of the Cold War. Ok, I’m exaggerating a tad, because not every one of these tracks are actually marching-band tunes. Indeed the ones where Westbrook plays piano are not marching band tunes (never seen a piano – even a portable one - out on a stroll). With a consequent cast of musical strollers - 13 brasswind players (incl. Wheeler, Lowther, Griffiths, Rutherford, Gibbs) and seven woodwind players (incl. Surman, Osborne, Skidmore, Warren, Smith), we’re also finding three bassists (Miller, Bare Phillips and Laurence) and two drummers (Marshall – then in Soft Machine - and Jackson). Quite the fµçqing crowd, uh?? Anyway, this is the first of two albums, and they will have similar wartime child drawings and both will find a Decca subsidiary label Deram release, within a few months of each other.

Well this type of musical endeavour has its schizophrenia bouts with the very brassy war marches like the opening Hooray and Marching Song(which is rather un-marching-like and the much more-intimate, experimental & sombre compositions like Landscape I & II, and Other World. Only one track is really quite down my own alley: Waltz For Joanna. The semi-chaotic end of the closing Marching song is relatively interesting, but comes a bit late in the album. Sooo As far as I am concerned, this is not that much of an album for me, but it’s not to say that it wouldn’t be for you.

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