Product Details
- An MVD Exclusive
- SKU: SRCD222
- Format: CD
- UPC: 832929002229
- Street Date: 09/07/10
- PreBook Date: 08/03/10
- Label: Basho Music »
- Genre: Jazz
- Run Time: 53:46 mins
- Number of Discs: 1
- Year of Production: 2006
- Box Lot: 30
- Territory: NORTH AMERICA
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Iain Ballamy's Anorak - Anorak More Jazz
The eclectic Englishman Iain Ballamy rediscovers his jazz roots.
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"Over the past 20 years my music has been described variously as 'eclectic, contemporary and English'- certainly not as 'retro, straight-ahead or in the American style'. So what marks this return to the 'classic' jazz format with 'More Jazz'' Although my true 'jazz roots' have never been too deeply concealed, some aficionados might argue that much of my past output is not strictly 'jazz'. Who decides the criteria, I wonder, by which jazz can be deemed authentic' Regardless of the argument or the answer, it felt like the right time to look both backwards and forwards at the same time and to create 'a modern jazz record with traditional sensibilities. By re-working classics such as 'All The Things You Are', 'I Got Rhythm' and 'Stella By Starlight', I'm striving to create a bridge between jazz past and present. I Re-invention is in the true tradition of jazz - the forward momentum that has always kept the music evolving and sounding 'of its own time'." Iain Ballamy
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Press Quotes
UK jazz seems to be safe in the hands of Iain Ballamy.
—Jennifer Laurie, Jazz Review
This is a record that carries off the neat trick of having one foot planted firmly in the past and another in the present.
—John Bungey, The Times 4 stars****
The tunes are marvellous throughout and the musicianship - with Gareth Williams on piano, Orlando Le Fleming on double bass, and Martin France on drums - is consistently high
—Alan Brownlee, Manchester Evening News
Enormously accomplished
—Stuart Nicholson, Jazzwise 4 stars ****
