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Loose Tubes (album)
''Loose Tubes'' is the debut album by English jazz Loose Tubes. It was released in 1985 as an LP on Loose Tubes Limited. The recording has never been reissued on CD. Track listing # "Eden Express" (Django Bates) – 8:15 # "Rowing Boat Delineation Egg" (Bates) – 3:55 # "Descarga" (Dave Pattman, John Parricelli, Steve Berry (musician), Steve Berry) – 8:00 # "Descarga Ocurriencia" (Berry) – 2:43 # "Yellow Hill" (Bates) – 6:01 # "Mister Zee" (Berry) – 7:08 # "Arriving" (Chris Batchelor) – 4:22 Notes *Tracks 1, 2, 5, 6 & 7 recorded at Portland Studios, London 29/12/84 *Tracks 3 & 4 recorded at Lansdowne Studios, London 15/9/85 Personnel *Iain Ballamy – alto & soprano saxophones (soloist: track 5) *Steve Buckley (musician), Steve Buckley – alto & soprano saxophones *Mark Lockheart – tenor saxophone (soloist: track 1) *Tim Whitehead (musician), Tim Whitehead – tenor saxophone (soloist: track 6) *Dave Bitelli – baritone saxophone (t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loose Tubes
Loose Tubes were a British jazz big band/orchestra active during the mid-to-late 1980s. Critically and popularly acclaimed, the band was considered to be the focal point of a 1980s renaissance in British jazz. It was the main launchpad for the careers of many future leading British jazz players including Django Bates, Iain Ballamy, Eddie Parker, Julian and Steve Argüelles, Mark Lockheart, Steve Berry, Tim Whitehead, Ashley Slater. In 2015, the band reformed to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the band's formation, with concerts at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Brecon Jazz Festival and a sold out week at Ronnie Scott's. "The band’s individual brand of contemporary orchestration incorporates a welcome humour (often lacking in such weighty aggregations), drawing on a diversity of sources – minimalism, spacey ECM-inspired balladry, funky blues, Latin, swing, even Carla Bley-like passages – in all, a combination of cool precision and collective pandemonium, performed wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Parker (musician)
Eddie Parker (born 28 May 1959 in Liverpool, England) is an English jazz flutist and composer. He also plays keyboards during workshops and live performances. Career He was a founding member of and composer for the British jazz band Loose Tubes in the 1980s. He has toured and performed with several noted bands and performers including Bheki Mseleku, Marvin Smith and John Parricelli. He has toured with the band Mister Vertigo, of which Parricelli is also a member, and conducts jazz workshops and performances involving young musicians. He was a lecturer in jazz at Middlesex University, where his students included Led Bib. Discography As leader * ''Live Tracks'' with Freebop (Impetus, 1988) * ''Transformations of the Lamp'' (FMR, 1994) * ''Everything You Do to Me'' (FMR, 1996) With Loose Tubes *''Loose Tubes'' (Loose Tubes Limited, 1985) * ''Delightful Precipice'' (Loose Tubes Limited, 1986) *''Open Letter'' (Editions EG, 1988) * ''Dancing On Frith Street'' (Lost Marble, 2010) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Argüelles
Stephen Argüelles Clarke (born 16 November 1963) is an English jazz drummer, producer and is the proprietor of the Plush record label. He has also worked in film and theatre. He is the elder brother of saxophonist Julian Argüelles. Stephen currently lives in Paris, France. Life and career Argüelles was born in Crowborough, East Sussex and raised in Birmingham. From the age of 16, when he became the house drummer at Ronnie Scott's, through his seminal work as a founder of the 1980s group Loose Tubes, and his work with Django Bates in the early Human Chain, he has shown an innovation beyond the usual role of the drummer. Argüelles has collaborated with folk singer Corin Curschellas and John Wolf Brennan of Switzerland and with Nguyên Lê. He also plays in a trio with Benoît Delbecq and Noël Akchoté : The Recyclers. With Benoit Delbecq and electric bassist Christophe Minck, he also played with the French male pop singer Katerine on two albums; ''Les Créatures ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Powell
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Ashley Slater
Ashley Slater (born 1961) is a British trombone player and best known for his narration on the television series Boo! as well as his work with Norman Cook (a.k.a. Fatboy Slim) in the band Freak Power. Career In 1983 after leaving the army, Slater attended the National Centre for Orchestral Studies, after which he joined the jazz orchestral collective Loose Tubes. Over the next few years he was the bass and tenor trombonist of choice for George Russell, Carla Bley, Andrew Poppy, El Sonido de Londres, Billy Jenkins, Django Bates and Andy Sheppard. Discography As leader *''The Human Groove'' (1988), with Microgroove *''Big Lounge'' (2002) *''Cellophane'' (2008) With Kitten & The Hip *''Hello Kitten'' (2014) With Freak Power *''Drive-Thru Booty'' (1995) *''More of Everything for Everybody'' (1996) With Loose Tubes * ''Loose Tubes'' (1985) * ''Delightful Precipice'' (1986) * ''Open Letter'' (1988) With Kin Chi Kat * ''You Think You Love Me'' (2019) With others * Billy Jenkin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Waterman (musician)
Steve Waterman (born 8 September 1960) is a British jazz trumpeter, composer and educator. Waterman was born in Lincolnshire and educated at Trinity College. He leads a quintet and 18-piece jazz orchestra A big band or jazz orchestra is a type of musical ensemble of jazz music that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section. Big bands originated during the early 1910s and ..., holds several teaching posts and has co-authored a book on jazz trumpet method. References * Clarke, Donald (Ed.). ''The Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music'', Viking, 1989. External links Waterman's home page 1960 births Living people British jazz trumpeters Male trumpeters 21st-century trumpeters 21st-century British male musicians British male jazz musicians {{jazz-trumpeter-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lance Kelly
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John Eacott
John Eacott (born 19 December 1960) is a British jazz trumpeter and composer. Life Beginnings, early influences John Eacott was born in Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom. His father Kenneth Eacott was a pianist, arranger and composer. His mother Joy Pocock was a dancer and drummer in the family band, in which John started playing trumpet aged seven. In the mid 1970s the family moved to Hayling Island where a lifelong love for the sea, sailing and navigation took hold. It was here where he was introduced to free jazz, leading him to meet Mark Lockheart. In the 1980s John Eacott got a ‘Psion Organiser’ and started to experiment with computer programming. Working Life (1982 – present) On graduating from Sussex University, England, in 1982 BA Music, Eacott's career as a musician started with anarchic jazzers Loose Tubes (trumpet, composer), post-industrial metal bashers Test Dept (trumpet, arranger, composer), Roman Holliday, acid jazz group Vibraphonic, and as a trumpeter w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David DeFries
David DeFries (born 24 May 1952) is an English jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, percussionist, composer and arranger, who was born in London, England. He was a member of Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath from 1981 onwards, and continues in both the London, and South African Brotherhoods that perform McGregor's repertoire. He was also a member of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Loose Tubes, and the Breakfast Band, which occasionally recorded sessions for BBC Radio Two's "Night Owls", hosted by Dave Gelly. His one solo album, 1988's ''The Secret City'', is on the same axis as Don Cherry and the Art Ensemble of Chicago, jazz meeting world music, with Harry Beckett on second trumpet on one of the tracks. His earlier work includes providing a trumpet backing to Chris Farlowe Chris Farlowe (born John Henry Deighton, 13 October 1940) is an English rock, blues and soul singer. He is best known for his hit single " Out of Time" written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, which rose to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Whitehead (musician)
Tim Whitehead (born 12 December 1950 in Liverpool) is a British jazz musician (soprano, alto and tenor saxophone, flute). Career Whitehead played in a folk group during his school days. He then studied law at Manchester University, but gave up his work as a lawyer in 1976 to concentrate on music. Together with guitarist Glenn Cartledge, he led the quartet "South of the Border", which won the Young Jazz Musicians of the Year Award. In 1977 he toured Germany with Ian Carr's "Nucleus"; the following year he toured with Graham Collier. In 1980 he founded his quartet "Borderline" and led his own bands afterwards. Since 1984 he also belonged to the "Loose Tubes", with whom he recorded the first three albums. In the 1990s, he played regularly with his band at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, but also ran his own clubs and gave lessons. In 1995 The Times wrote that "Tim Whitehead's music is marked by a sense of grace and economy" with a "growing reputation as one of Britain's most thoughtful c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in European harmony and African rhythmic rituals. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to different styles. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. But jazz did not begin as a single musical tradition in New Orleans or elsewhere. In the 1930s, arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, Kansas City jazz (a hard-swinging, bluesy, improvisationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Lockheart
Mark Lockheart (born 31 March 1961) is a British jazz tenor saxophonist who was a member of the Loose Tubes big band during the 1980s. Career After the demise of Loose Tubes, Lockheart formed jazz/folk quartet Perfect Houseplants with Huw Warren, Dudley Phillips, and Martin France. The band released five albums, including two with The Orlando Consort. At this time Lockheart The Scratch Band, performing his compositions. The group recorded two albums, including ''Imaginary Dances''. In 2005 Lockheart put together his "Big Idea" to record the album ''Moving Air''. In 2003, Lockheart joined the British jazz quintet Polar Bear. The group have recorded six albums, including '' Held on the Tips of Fingers'', which was nominated for the Mercury Award and was selected one of the 100 Jazz Albums That Shook the World by ''Jazzwise'' magazine. A project of more of Lockheart's compositions was released in 2009 with the In Deep Quintet featuring Liam Noble and Jasper Hoiby. The next ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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