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The Nostalgia Sessions
“British Jazz Past, Present and Future.”
The Nostalgia Sessions is a new project that aims to cultivate and nurture collaborations between some of the finest emerging young Jazz players in the UK with their more established antecedents – bringing together different voices and experiences from across the Jazz spectrum.
Overseeing the recordings are Ben Lamdin, best known for his work as Nostalgia 77 on the influential Tru thoughts label and winner of the BBC Worldwide Jazz Award 2006, and Martin Levan (John Martyn, Neil Ardley, Andrew Lloyd Webber). The collaborative albums will fuse the talents of emerging young jazz musicians with those who helped to define the Brit-Jazz genre.
The Nostalgia Sessions Volume 1, featuring Keith and Julie Tippett
The genesis of the project was a chance meeting between Nostalgia 77 bassist Riaan Vosloo and jazz piano legend Keith Tippett. Out of the encounter, the idea of an album putting Keith and Julie Tippett in the studio with some of the young players involved with Nostalgia 77 and the Impossible Ark label was born.
After taking the idea to Red Kite Records boss Martin Levan and label manager Ron Dukelow, the project quickly took shape. Players on the session include Nostalgia 77 Octet regular Mark Hanslip on tenor sax, Fulvio Sigurta (a member of G.Coscia band on ECM) on trumpet and New York based Adam Sorenson on drums. Jazz/rock guitar great, Gary Boyle - whose stellar playing career includes early stints with Dusty Springfield and played alongside Julie (then Driscoll) in Brian Auger's Trinity - completed the diverse line up.
Unlike many musical collaborations - where guest artists tend to phone in performances or send rough parts produced in separate studios – the communal nature of the Nostalgia Sessions is at its core. The entire band stayed for a week at the Red Kite’s own superb studio in rural Wales, playing together and learning from each other as they crafted a beautiful and broad album out of the session – an album that shows the meeting of very different yet complementary styles from all those involved, and whose strength comes from the unity of the players throughout the session.
By fusing the ideas of the older generation with those of the new, The Nostalgia Sessions will enrich the UK jazz scene with a memorable and enduring musical collaboration.
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