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Into The Blue (Guy Barker Album)
''Into the Blue'' is an album by Guy Barker, released in late May 1995 by Verve Records. It was nominated for the 1995 Mercury Music Prize, but lost to Portishead (band), Portishead's ''Dummy (album), Dummy''. Reception ''The Times''s Chris Parker wrote that ''Into the Blue'' "places Barker firmly where he deserves to be: in the growing ranks of world-class British jazz players." ''L'Unità''s Filippo Bianchi spoke negatively of the album, saying Barker "lacks the 'philosophy'" and "vocation to invent language" of European jazz greats. Track listing All tracks composed by Guy Barker, except where noted. #"Into the Blue" – 6:43 #"JJ Swing" – 6:10 #"Oh Mr. Rex!" – 10:52 #"Low Down Lullaby" (Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger) – 6:03 #"Did It 'n' Did It" – 3:50 #"The Sphinx" (Ornette Coleman) – 4:12 #"Enigma" (Bernardo Sassetti) – 7:28 #"Ill Wind (song), Ill Wind" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 5:41 #"This Is the Life (For Stan Tracey)" – 8:48 #"Weather Bird, Weather Bir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Barker
Guy Jeffrey Barker, (born 26 December 1957) is an English jazz trumpeter and composer. Early life Barker was born in Chiswick, London, the son of an actress and a stuntman. He started playing the trumpet at the age of twelve, and within a year had joined the National Youth Jazz Orchestra. At the age of 15 he was playing with the Crouch End Allstars along with Wally Fawkes and Bob Nadkarni. Later life and career After lessons from Clark Terry in 1975, Barker went on in the 1980s to play with John Dankworth, Gil Evans (with whose orchestra he toured and recorded in 1983), Lena Horne, and Bobby Watson. Barker was a member of Clark Tracey's quintet from 1984 to 1992. As a sideman he has played with Ornette Coleman, Carla Bley, Georgie Fame, James Carter, Mike Westbrook, Frank Sinatra, Colin Towns, Natalie Merchant, ABC, The The, Haircut One Hundred, Erasure, Chris Botti, Wham!, Kajagoogoo, The Housemartins, Matt Bianco, Alphaville, The Style Council, Swing Out Sister, The Mood ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |