1999 CD re-release, in jewel box with 8-page booklet.
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original 1991 LP release (as 'Compilation II'), limited quantity available
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Cassette + Digital Album
original 1991 cassette release (as 'Compilation II'), limited quantity available
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Streaming + Download
Immediate download of 9-track album (54 mins.) in your choice of 320k mp3, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire.
You can preview the first 3 tracks of this album by using the player above (or clicking on the titles below). Please note that the previews that you can listen to on this page are 128k mp3s, so downloading the album will give you access to all tracks at a much higher quality level.
Also, the download includes a pdf file of the original artwork for the 1991 cassette release (editions 1-4), plus the 1999 CD re-release (8-page booklet, inlay & label).
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
The same as the CD version above, but without the jewel box.
If you have no need of the somewhat unloved and increasingly old-fashioned jewel box, we will send you the disc and all paper parts from the CD, without the plastic box.
The price is the same (we don't really need any more empty jewel boxes!), but it should offer you significant savings on shipping, especially if you order several discs and/or are outside Europe.
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Theme & variations for improvisers, jazz ensemble & electronics.
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"Compilation II is a remarkable piece of work. Solos throughout are terrific, ensemble playing is strong, the writing is episodic but there's still a central flow and coherent development, production values are nothing short of unique. In short, we have a potential classic here.....Brilliant." Steve Lake THE WIRE
"An outstanding record that demands a place in any comprehensive collection.....some of the most vivid and creative improvisation/composition fusions in recent times.....wholly individual mixtures of realtime improvisation and writing that cheerfully filches from all post-bop and compositional areas, yet which depends as much on the colour and intensity of the individual improvisations as it does on Fell's witty and often bewilderingly complex structures." THE PENGUIN GUIDE TO JAZZ ON CD, LP & CASSETTE
"Simon Fell is a leading composer of his generation, crossing boundaries and creating music of a passion and originality unusual in Britain." THE GUINNESS ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF POPULAR MUSIC
"It's hard to think of anybody in the UK among the jazz-related musicians of his generation.....who is working on this scale and with such audacious inventiveness." Chris Blackford THE WIRE
"The sharpest dialogue between composition and improvisation realised by any English composer." Ben Watson RESONANCE
Alan Leggett: trumpet
Martin Jones: flugelhorn
Charles Wharf: soprano sax, clarinet, bass clarinet
Pete Minns: tenor sax
Alan Wilkinson: alto sax, baritone sax
Tim Brooks: trombone
Bruce Godfrey: violin
Helen Godfrey: 'cello
Simon H. Fell: keyboards, double bass, electronics
Paul Hession: drums
full track listing:
1. Part I - The Shirt Is Fabulous (For Pete) [08:06]
2. Part II [06:42]
3. Part III - Flugel (For Martin) [08:11]
4. Part IV - Piano [05:16]
5. Part V - Bass [03:06]
6. Part VI - Alto (For Alan) [05:55]
7. Part VII - Drumset (For Paul) [06:14]
8. Part VIII - Soprano (For Charlie) [07:58]
9. Part IX [03:43]
This musical work was conceived as an album, and is available here as such. However, if you wish to download individual tracks, you can do so at Diogenes, iTunes or Boomkat.
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