NEIL ARDLEY / A Symphony Of Amaranths UK Prog Regal Zonophone SLRZ 1028 1972 Lp

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Regal Zonophone - SLRZ 1028  - U.K. - Stereo - 1972

Cover/Copertina                 vg+

Record/Disco                    vg+

Original first issue

Side 1 Matrix #     YCARX  89-1U

Side 2 Matrix #     YCARX 90-1U

(machine stamped)

The smooth cover has moderate shelf   wear   with NO splits - beginning of LIGHT round on front and back cover - a little sticker on front cover with the name of the first owner (see the pct)  - the spine is perfectly readable with no wear

The labels are excellent

The record shows very light hair marks not feelable under the fingers - it plays with rare  background noise here and there - NO skips or repeats

NOTE: most of the people will grade this record  VG++++ or EX or better. I prefer a conservatire grading and so bid with confidence

Attention: The grey halo is due to the scaner and actually it's not on the record

The British composer Neil Ardley did a great deal of work with his country's best modern jazz musicians. His arrangements and compositions involve aspects of classical music's ambitious compositional outlook somewhat differently than the better-known third stream efforts of American jazzmen such as John Lewis or George Russell. Ardley graduated from Bristol University in the late '50s and went on to study arranging and composition with Raymond Premru and Bill Russo. By 1964, the one-on-one sessions with these theorists were several years behind him and he was directing an ensemble called the New Jazz Orchestra. The idea in this band was to assemble a group of good players and improvisers who would also want to contribute their own compositions to the repertoire.

The lineup of names in this group could pass for someone's collection of British jazz: Harry Beckett, Jack Bruce, Ian Carr, Mike Gibbs, Jon Hiseman, Barbara Thompson, and Norma Winstone, to name a few. Eventually, Ardley began leading an orchestra under his own name as well, with so many musicians overlapping from the initial orchestra that the two groups became mixed up with each other, as well as being mixed up with the sometimes surreal compositions they wound up performing. Ardley's creative activity between 1969 and 1981 included Kaleidoscope of Rainbows, a work in many movements that the Gull label put out on vinyl in 1976, and Harmony of the Spheres followed a few years later. In the '80s, writing about music took up a great deal of Ardley's time, including the 1986 publication of the brilliant Music: An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Compositions from Ardley's later periods also involve the combination of electronic music with traditional instruments from the jazz lineup. As a player, Ardley shows up on a vintage Nucleus album. Ardley continued to explore and became interested in choral music in the 2000's. He passed away in February of 2004, shortly after completing a new choral composition.

Line-up / Musicians

- Derek Watkins / trumpet
- Nigel Carter / trumpet
- Henry Lowther / trumpet
- Harold Beckett / trumpet
- Derek Wadsworth / trombone
- Ray Premru / trombone
- Dick Hart / tuba
- Barbara Thompson / woodwind, sax
- Dave Gelly / woodwind, sax, glockenspiel
- Don Rendell / woodwind, sax
- Dick Heckstall-Smith / woodwind, sax
- John Clementson / oboe
- Bunny Gould / bassoon
- Neil Ardley / prepared piano, conductor
- David Snell / harp
- Sidonie Goossens / harp
- Stan Tracey / piano, celeste
- Karl Jenkens / electric piano
- Alan Brascombe / harpsichord
- Frank Ricotti / vibraphone, percussion
- Chris Laurence / bass
- Jeff Clyne / bass
- Jon Hiseman / drums, percussion
- Eric Gruenberg / violin
- Jack Rothstein / violin, conductor
- Kelly Isaacs / violin
- Ken Essex / viola
- Charles Tunnell / cello
- Ivor Cutler / narrator
- Norma Winstone / vocal

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