(Jazz) Brian Bennett's Collage - Misty - 1994, MP3 (tracks), 192 kbps

***For the best part of 30 years Brian Bennett lived a secret double life...in the public eye as the drummer with the balls-achingly tedious combo The Shadows, hiding behind Cliff & Hank's perma-grins...and then afterwards retreating to the darkened corners of London's recording studios where he metamorphosised into the composer of hundreds of hours' worth of jazzy soundtrack and library material. A major session face with the likes of Joe Meek through the early rock years, Bennett later took the reigns as not only Cliff Richard's musical director in his solo years, but also trudging around with the likes of Tom Jones and, God save us, Denis 'Minder' Waterman. Bennett's library work is virtually unknown to the popular consciousness, yet also instantly familiar to almost everyone and eagerly sought by the determined few. This LP is definitely not his best work, but tracks like "Madrid" make it listenable and chopable too.***