Latest Albums
New album from the Derek Nash Acoustic Quartet
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Derek Nash and his Acoustic Quartet launched his latest albumĀ Down on Frenchmen StreetĀ on 10th September at Pizza Express Jazz Club, Soho.
A new album for Christmas
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New for Christmas 2017, a collection of traditional themes arranged by Geoff for Big Band and String Orchestra featuring Iain Mackenzie on vocals. Recorded at Angel Studios.
Geoff Gascoyne & Iain Mackenzie: a swingin' Song Book
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Bassist Geoff Gascoyne and vocalist Iain Mackenzie release an album of 13 carefully crafted, brand new songs, all co-composed in the ‘Great American Songbook’ tradition and beautifully recorded with a 37 piece orchestra made up of big band and strings.
Trudy Kerr: The House
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For her new album The House Trudy has collaborated with pianist Andrea Vicari. For the past few years they have been performing duo gigs around London, and on hearing Andrea’s original compositions Trudy was inspired to write lyrics to her beautiful tunes.
Derek Nash: new album
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Following on from the British Jazz Award-winning Joyriding – which received the Best CD award in 2012 – this new CD from the Derek Nash Acoustic Quartet is set to be another hit!
You’ve Got to Dig It to Dig It, You Dig? Is rather a long and unconventional title for a CD but it came from a fantastic list of advice courtesy of legendary jazz pianist, Thelonius Monk. Saxophonist, Steve Lacy, transcribed the list in 1960. In the middle of many wonderful lines of unexpected and idiosyncratic phrases, one stood out – You’ve Got to Dig It to Dig It, You Dig? This inspired a melody to fit the phrase and led Derek to compose the title track. These and other wise words guided the feel of the whole album. Hope you dig it too!
Trudy Kerr's Contemplation: "a fantastic compilation"
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Trudy Kerr's album Contemplation, released a few months ago, is a fantastic compilation of her favourite tracks from an impressive catalogue of ten different recordings with a practical 'who's who' of British Jazz in her lineups including her husband Geoff Gascoyne, Seb de Krom, Tom Cawley, Dick Pearce, Jim Mullen, Martin Shaw, Derek Nash and Andy Panayi and more.
You wouldn't notice that these beautiful, fluid songs are in fact from a multitude of times and phases, as Trudy's wonderfully flexible, consistently warm sound hasn't changed a bit from album to album, and the songs fit wonderfully together.