Gearbox - GB1513 - 180 gram Virgin Vinyl -- 5065001717116
All Analogue Valve Mastering - 500 Copies Limited Edition - Previously Unreleased
‘An album project which has 11 tracks of sheer beauty and perfection’. JAZZTIMES
‘Undoubtedly a highlight in the lengthy careers of Winstone and Wheeler, those stalwarts of the Euopean jazz scene’. BLUES AND RELATED STUFF
‘Thoroughly enjoyable, classy but utterly unpretentious album’. LONDON JAZZ
Kenny Wheeler and Norma Winstone have been at the forefront of the European Jazz scene collectively for the last 5 decades gaining the admiration and reverence from all generations of musicians and fans. With the release of ‘Mirrors’, a suite of music composed by Kenny Wheeler set to poems by Stevie Smith, Lewis Carroll and W.B. Yeats, they are joined by the London Vocal Project, a 24 piece choir directed by the inimitable Pete Churchill. Featuring some of the renowned and celebrated musicians in British Jazz including pianist Nikki Iles, saxophonist Mark Lockheart, bassist Steve Watts and drummer James Maddren, Mirrors is vast in conception and world class in its execution. This is the first release in our new partnership with Edition Records.
Side 1
Humpty Dumpty
The Broken Heart
The Hat
Black March
Side 2
Breughel
The Lover Mourns
Tweedledum
KENNY WHEELER - flugelhorn;
NORMA WINSTONE - vocals;
London Vocal Project directed by PETE CHURCHILL;
NIKKI ILES - piano;
MARK LOCKHEART - saxophones,
STEVE WATTS - double bass;
JAMES MADDREN - drums
Think of this LP as a long over due extension to Neil Ardley's immortal "A Symphony For Amaranth's" and all that type jazz.
Kenny Wheeler and Norma Winstone have been at the forefront of European Jazz scene collectively for the last 5 decades gaining the admiration and reverence from all generations of musicians and fans. With the release of ‘Mirrors’, a suite of music composed by Kenny Wheeler set to poems by Stevie Smith, Lewis Carroll and W.B. Yeats, they are joined by the London Vocal Project, a 24 piece choir directed by the inimitable Pete Churchil
Haeco Scully lathe, Western Electric cutting amps and head; Maselec master control, EQ and de-esser; original Lang Pultec EQ; Urei high and low pass filters; fully restored Studer C37 and ex Decca Philips Pro51 tape machines; Nagra SN stereo reel to reel for field recording; Telefunken U73b compressor/limiter; Telefunken V72 and V76 mic preamps; Audionote 211 valve monitoring amps, speakers and turntable
