JAZA12 Michael Garrick – Children of Time

‘Children of Time’ is an original work for big band by jazz composer and pianist Michael Garrick, which features the voice of one of the UK’s greatest vocalists, Norma Winstone. She is backed by Garrick’s Jazz Britannia Orchestra, the band that appeared at the celebration of British jazz that Gilles Peterson curated at the Barbican in 2004. This recording reunites him with Norma Winstone for the first time since the 1970s.

Garrick described ‘Children of Time’ as a “kind of space odyssey” and set to music text from the book of Genesis, the Eucharist and Garrick’s own Underground Streams and Heavenly Bodies. Musical influences include Duke Ellington and Count Basie and featured musicians include drummer Alan Jackson, trumpeter Steve Waterman and saxophonists Matt Wates and Jamie Anderson.

“Infectiously exuberant.” – Jazz at Ronnie Scott’s

“Warmly lyrical, full of colour.” – Irish Times

A grand big band album…joyous music indeed.” – Duncan Heining, Jazzwise Magazine

“Great soloists? Real emotion? Real humour!? Not’arf!” – Tilly’s Broadsheet

“Music of the mundane is not for Michael Garrick. Such infinite thoughts and flights of the imagination may be more associated with the galactic jazz voyages of Sun Ra. But Garrick’s extraordinary musical mind makes them burn with Blake’s London fire as well.” – Chris Searle, Morning Star

Michael Garrick: piano
Norma Winstone: voice
Martin Shaw, Steve Waterman, Gabriel Garrick: trumpet, flugelhorn
Mark da Silva, Alistair White, Dave Eaglestone: trombone
Martin Hathaway: alto saxophone, flute
Matt Wates: soprano and alto saxophone
Bob McKay: baritone saxophone, bass clarinet
Jamie Anderson: tenor saxophone
Mick Foster: tenor saxophone, clarinet
Dominic Ashworth: guitar
Paul Moylan: double bass
Alan Jackson: drums

All compositions by Michael Garrick

Recorded by Dick Hammett at Red Gables Studio, London, April and May 2005
Mixed by Dick Hammett and Michael Garrick

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