The Newport Jazz Festival date features Ella Fitzgeralds sizzling vocal talents showcased in a small band setting that boasts the participation of pianist Don Abney, bassist Wendell Marshall and drummer Jo Jones. Nearly a year after the Newport Jazz Festival date Ella performed one of her most celebrated concerts in Rome on April 25, 1958. The vocalist is backed here by her regular piano trio of the period, which includes pianist Lou Levy, bassist Max Bennett and drummer Gus Johnson. Gambi. 2005.

Track Listings
Disc: 1
1 : Flexidisc - AB Discussing Shakespeare for the Book Society (1964)
2 : Tape_0526 - AB Playing Greensleeves (1984)
3 : Tape_0526 - AB Mock Sales Pitch for 'Enderby's Dark Lady' (1984)
4 : Tape_0438a - AB Lecture: 'Can Art Be Immoral?' (1991)
5 : Tape_0685 - AB Playing Piano (1970s-1980s)
6 : Tape_0438a - 'Can Art Be Immoral?' (1991)
7 : Tape_0645 - LB Making List of Desired Translators of 'On Going to Bed' (1982)
8 : Tape_0438a - 'Can Art Be Immoral?' (1991)
9 : Tape_0670 - AB-W Playing Guitar, 44 Rue Grimaldi, Monaco (1980s)
10 : Tape_0438a - 'Can Art Be Immoral?' (1991)
11 : Tape_0625 - AB and LB Lunching at Casa Frollo, Venice, As Seagulls Swoop for the Discarded Tiramisu (1988)
12 : Tape_0438a - 'Can Art Be Immoral?' (1991)
13 : Tape_0100 - AB Rehearsing of Mozart Lecture (1991)
14 : Tape_0685 - AB-W Playing, Possibly the Crumhorn? (1970s-1980s)
15 : Tape_0626 - The Burgess Answering Machine, Monaco (C.1984)
16 : Tape_0642 - AB Discussing the Beatles (1986)
17 : Tape_0656 - AB and LB Piano Duet (Unknown)
18 : Tape_0581 - AB's Nantes Lecture in French (Date?)
19 : Tape_0494 - AB Giving Acceptance Speech for 'A Clockwork Orange' in Sardi's, New York (1972)
20 : Tape_0655 - AB Playing Beethoven's 'Ode to Joy' On His Keyboard (1980s)
21 : Tape_0685 - AB-W Play-acting in French (1970s-1980s)
22 : Tape_0645 - AB and LB Rehearsing a Speech, Referencing Strindberg, Engels, Kafka and Ibsen (1982)
23 : Tape_0367b - LB Reading 'Chatsky' at Home (C1993)
24 : Tape_0526 - AB Mock Sales Pitch for 'Enderby's Dark Lady' (1984)
25 : Tape_0100 - AB Rehearsing of Mozart Lecture (1991)
26 : Tape_0685 - AB-W Playing, Possibly the Crumhorn? (1970s-1980s)
Disc: 2
1 : Mr Burgess Says Writing Is Hard (The Reverend Max Ripple Remix)
2 : Human Being (Vicky Clark Remix)
3 : FFFF (Dinah Bird Remix)
4 : Ode (Alan Dunn & Noisesurfer Remix)
5 : Adjrust (Keiron Piercy & Roy Claire Porter Remix)
6 : Vitrified Exhalations (Mark Vernon Remix)
7 : Tony B's Monstrous Idol (David Birchall Remix)
8 : Janet and Howard Are in the Audience 2019 (Marion Harrison Remix)
9 : Kubrick (Jeff Young Remix)
10 : Whilst His Piano Gently Sleeps (Scanner Remix)
11 : Pronto (Ade Blackburn, Clinic, Paul Sullivan & Static Remix)
12 : Canis Lupus Lupus (Foreign Investment Remix)
13 : Nantes (Tobias Hazan Remix)
14 : Nocturnal Hum (Eye Suriyanon Remix)
15 : Waiting for You (Foreign Investment Remix)
16 : SCORN (Band of Holy Joy, James Stephen Finn & Johnny Brown Remix)
17 : Rue Grimaldi (Chris Watson Remix)
18 : Birds (Guy Marc Hinant & Laszio Umbreit Remix)

Double LP/CD curated by Alan Dunn in collaboration with the International Anthony Burgess Foundation and Sub Rosa. Anthony Burgess's second wife Liana carried a cassette recorder with her at all times to capture her life with the author and their son Andrew. This extraordinarily intimate audio archive of over 1,000 cassettes now sits with the International Anthony Burgess Foundation and artist Alan Dunn has been granted access to select excerpts from it and curate sonic conversations from others. Disc 1 contains the very first and last known recordings of Burgess's voice alongside domestic incidents, rehearsals and answering machine messages, while Disc 2 invites 23 artists and musicians to remix the rare material into a unique Burgess portrait far beyond 'A Clockwork Orange'. Anthony Burgess: Born in Manchester in 1917, Anthony Burgess was educated at Xaverian College in that city and at Manchester University. He served in the army from 1940 to 1946 and as an education officer in Malaya and Brunei from 1954 to 1959. He published more than 50 books (including 'A Clockwork Orange' and his masterpiece, 'Earthly Powers') and composed around 250 musical works. He was created a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres by President Mitterrand of France and a Commandeur de Mérite Culturel by Prince Rainier of Monaco. He died in London in 1993. His books are still read all over the world. Alan Dunn is an artist and curator based between Liverpool and Leeds, where he is a reader in Art & Design at Leeds Beckett University. His projects have been presented at Tate Britain, ICA, Liverpool Art Prize, BBC Radio and Bluecoat. The International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester is an independent educational charity which encourages public and scholarly interest in all aspects of the life and work of Anthony Burgess.

Melody Gardot and acclaimed pianist Philippe Powell have recorded an intimate album of brooding jazz torch songs. Recorded in Paris in Dec 2021, this intimate new album showcases Melody and Philippe’s love of traditional jazz, taking the listener back to its golden age.

"If I had to sum up the record in a couple of words, I’d say : this record is a dance between two people who love and value the same things : deep poetry and solid melodies. The title "Entre eux deux" (between us two), stands true. Here’s a peek into the world of two artists who just really dig each other. We hope you really dig it too." - Melody Gardot

Track list
This foolish heart could love you
What of your eyes
Plus forte que nous
A la Tour Eiffel
Fleurs de Dimanche
Samba em preludio
Perhaps you’ll wonder why
Recitativo
Ode to every man
Darling fare thee well

The Message (available June 29 via Mack Avenue Records) swells with an abundance of strength, soul and astounding musicianship. Its a vision of fusion and funk, breakbeats and bass-interpreted cello suites with a little help from friends like rapper/beatboxer Doug E. Fresh and trumpeter Mark Isham. Backed by a young versatile band and a collection of tunes written in the midst of a tumultuous tour of Europe,

Im very excited about our work on this album. I wanted to include some of my band members contributions and the result is an album that is funky, melodic, musical, contemporary and fresh with a rich multi-genre influence, Clarke commented. The guys in this band are consummate young musicians with musical spirits that are very old. The line-up he refers to is pianist Beka Gochiashivili, drummer Mike Mitchell and keyboardist Cameron Graves.

The band entered ICP Studios in Belgium and recorded an abundance of material. Clarke returned to his home in Los Angeles with the tapes and began to tinker. Once I got the raw material, I fleshed it out. My ability is to orchestrate and arrange. Im very good with taking anything and turning it into something.

Much of the material from their Paris adventure is collected on this album but the affair opens with a homegrown homage to several soulful great friends that Clarke has lost in the last few years including George Duke, Al Jarreau, Tom Petty, Leon Ndugu Chancler and Prince. Clarke slaps out a funky riff for And Ya Know Were Missing You while renowned beatboxer Doug E. Fresh lays down an intrepid beat. A rare pairing that seems instinctual upon first listen.

The Message is unmistakably a Stanley Clarke record.

Track list
And Ya Know We're Missing You
After the Cosmic Rain / Dance of the Planetary Prince
The Rugged Truth
Combat Continuum
The Message
Lost in a World
Alternative Facts
Bach Cello Suite 1 Prelude
The Legend of the Abbas and the Sacred Talisman
Enzo's Theme
To Be Alive

Track list
A Harp in New York
For Jaco
Moonlight Sunshine
Cantina Band
The Elements: Air
The Elements: Earth
The Elements: Water
The Elements: Fire
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