John Surman / John Warren - Tales Of The Algonquin (4539740) LP
Reissued on vinyl as a limited print run with thick card flip-back laminated sleeve plus a 12x12 insert with new in-depth liner notes by Tony Higgins with interviews by Surman, Warren and the album producer Peter Eden. The audio has been lovingly remastered by Gearbox from the original master tapes and is pressed on 180 gram vinyl by Optimal.
Continuing the British Jazz Explosion vinyl reissue series is John Surman, John Warren / Tales of the Algonquin. This album was recently included in Jazzwise Magazine's The 100 Jazz Albums That Shook The World and they praised it with The Big Beast of the Brit-Jazz golden age & The masterpiece that is. The jazz collectors bible, The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album with a coveted crown and it was complemented further with masterpiece, conceived on a grand scale, meticulously executed and marked by superb soloing legendary status among British jazz fans. In 2005 for a CD review of the album, John Fordham at The Guardian wrote This is a significant UK jazz document - but it's a richly colourful piece of large-scale jazz-making first and foremost as well as giving it four stars.
Since the album's original release in 1971, it has continued to be on critics radars and jazz fans wants-lists. Featuring a 16-piece band with a 27 year old Surman, it's a rich sound full of twists and turns some with Surman's heavy Coltrane influenced playing, helped along with John Taylor's beautiful piano, positioned artfully with Warren's band sixteen members that also include Mike Osborne, Stan Sulzmann, Barre Phillips, Harry Miller, Alan Jackson, Stu Martin, John Taylor, Alan Skidmore, Harry Beckett and Kenny Wheeler, a.o.
1. With Terry's Help
2. The Dandelion
3. We'll Make It
4. Picture Tree
5. Tales Of The Algonquin
I The Purple Swan
II Shingebis And The North Wind
III The Adventures Of Manabush
IV The White Water Lily
V Wihio The Wanderer
Continuing the British Jazz Explosion vinyl reissue series is John Surman, John Warren / Tales of the Algonquin. This album was recently included in Jazzwise Magazine's The 100 Jazz Albums That Shook The World and they praised it with The Big Beast of the Brit-Jazz golden age & The masterpiece that is. The jazz collectors bible, The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album with a coveted crown and it was complemented further with masterpiece, conceived on a grand scale, meticulously executed and marked by superb soloing legendary status among British jazz fans. In 2005 for a CD review of the album, John Fordham at The Guardian wrote This is a significant UK jazz document - but it's a richly colourful piece of large-scale jazz-making first and foremost as well as giving it four stars.
Since the album's original release in 1971, it has continued to be on critics radars and jazz fans wants-lists. Featuring a 16-piece band with a 27 year old Surman, it's a rich sound full of twists and turns some with Surman's heavy Coltrane influenced playing, helped along with John Taylor's beautiful piano, positioned artfully with Warren's band sixteen members that also include Mike Osborne, Stan Sulzmann, Barre Phillips, Harry Miller, Alan Jackson, Stu Martin, John Taylor, Alan Skidmore, Harry Beckett and Kenny Wheeler, a.o.
1. With Terry's Help
2. The Dandelion
3. We'll Make It
4. Picture Tree
5. Tales Of The Algonquin
I The Purple Swan
II Shingebis And The North Wind
III The Adventures Of Manabush
IV The White Water Lily
V Wihio The Wanderer