(Big Band, British Jazz, Modern Creative, Vocal Jazz) Mike Westbrook Orchestra - Bar Utopia - 1996, FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

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Mike Westrbrook Orchestra / Bar Utopia
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REM GENRE "Big Band"
REM DATE 1996
REM DISCID 710FCC08
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Recorded on October 13 & 14, 1966 at R.G. Jones Studios, London.
"'Bar Utopia' was commissioned by the Bath International Festival with funds from BBC Radio 3 and the Arts Council of England, and premiered at the Bath International Festival on May 20, 1995."
The Mike Westbrook Orchestra (Bar Utopia) is a phenomenal band, and Westbrook himself a master of of jazz orchestration. He can suggest a carnival, a ballroom, or a greasy back street with a few cunningly placed notes. The full effect is awe inspiring.
- The Observer.
Premiered at the Bath Festival, Bar Utopia has been around long enough for the band to extract maximum fun from playing it. Singers Kate Westbrook and John Winfield often work as a duo but, on the suitably rollicking Happy Jazz Singer, Kate splits choruses with a Pythonesque male quartet drawn from the band.
Bits of rock opera pop up in Dialogue, there are virtuoso spots for cello and accordion and, in a theatrical touch, the ensemble divides into raucous Dixieland groups.
The warm, lived-in sound from the band represents an enormous strike in the music's favour. Another is that Westbrook writes tunes that stick in the mind. Brilliantly sung by Winfield, the Utopia Ballad tugs at the heart-strings, while snappy riffs on Nowhere get the fingers popping as a big band should. Instrumental soloists standing out include Peter Whyman on alto saxophone, Anthony Kerr on vibraphone and newcomer Paul Edmonds on trumpet." - The Guardian.
Here we have 1996 music adapting to the spirit of the thirties. Westbrook is leading this fine, shouting big band in the contemporary manner and there is an unshamed night club element. Witty lyrics by Helen Simpson are an integral part of the music and the album's sub heading is A Big Band Cabaret! There will be some readers who will think there is too much vocal emphasis bit I would say that they are missing the point. This could be taken as a Cotton Club show bought forward to the nineties and it would certainly have been less impressive without the cabaret element.
From the instrumental point of view, Westbrook knows how he wants his band to sound. The voicings are total rather than sectionised and he has a rhythm section that cooks along perfectly. Only the churlish would fail to be impressed with soloists such as Bitelli and Edmonds (Nowhere), McMillan and Wakeman (Utopia Blues), Whyman (Honest Love), Kerr (Utopia Ballad) and Biscoe (Happy Jazz Singer).
Vocalists Kate Westbrook and John Winfield get the idiom just right and most readers will find the dashing saxophone quartet take of Jelly's The Chant a delightful way of getting the show on the road. Listening to this is an hour well spent. - Jazz Journal

Acoustic Bass, Electric Bass – Steve Berry
Alto Saxophone – Chris Biscoe
Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Clarinet – Peter Whyman
Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Clarinet – Dave Bitelli
Baritone Saxophone – Chris Caldwell
Cello – Stanley Adler
Drums – Peter Fairclough
Piano – Mike Westbrook
Tenor Saxophone – Alan Wakeman
Tenor Saxophone, Accordion – Karen Street
Trombone – Adrian Lane, Mark Bassey, Tracy Holloway
Trumpet – Andy Bush, Noel Langley
Trumpet, Flugelhorn – James McMillan, Paul Edmonds
Tuba – Andy Grappy
Vibraphone – Anthony Kerr
Vocals – John Winfield, Kate Westbrook