Miles Music Catalogue: All titles
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Janus
Peter King Quartet with the Lyric String Quartet
Featuring: Peter King, Gordon Beck and The Lyric String Quartet.
This is the latest in the collaboration between Miles Music and the
Peter King Quartet. This CD shows Peter King's range as a composer and
musician of undeniable standing. Accompanied by the legendary Gordon
Beck on piano, and regular sidemen Stephen Keogh (drums) and Jeremy
Brown (bass) the jazz quartet is given another dimension by the superb
musicianship of the Lyric String Quartet led by Patricia Calnan. The
Janus suite was recorded live at the Purcell Rooms in 1997. Alan Barnes
sums it up well. " This then is Peter King, master saxophonist,
inspired composer, and a true polymath and Renaissance man. And this
recording is surely his masterpiece".
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CD £11.50
Order Code: MMCD088 
Footprints
Peter King Quartet
Featuring: Peter King, Steve Melling, Jeremy Brown/Arnie Somogyi & Stephen Keogh.
Recorded over two nights at The Pizza Express, Dean Street, and introduced
by Peter Wallis, this is the Peter King Quartet in stunning form. Dave
Gelly comments club recordings are not necessarily better than the studio
kind, but they usually have the advantage of being more relaxed, and
hence more likely to catch musicians at their best. This is certainly
what happened on this occasion". These performance were also captured
on video and this material may appear on DVD in the future.
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CD £11.50
Order Code: MMCD087
For Members Only ('67 Live)
Tubby Hayes Quartet
Featuring: Mick Pyne, Ron Matthewson & Tony Levin
Tubby Hayes was one of the most accomplished and charismatic jazz musicians Britain has even produced. Although he died aged 37 sometime after an unsuccessful open heart surgery, he has become a legend and a big influence on many musicians. In 1967 his newly formed quartet worked long and hard with tours, record dates and broadcasts three of which are showcased in this CD including Humphrey Lyttelton's links and a short interview with Tubby. This CD captures probably the best of his quartets at peak form.
CD £11.50
Order Code: MMCD086
After the Rain
Alan Skidmore
Featuring: Alan Skidmore together with the Radio Philharmonie
Hannover des NDR & Colin Towns Mask Symphonic
It may come as a surprise to find Skidmore exploring this
kind of musical climate when he is better known as a small
group man whose instinct is for self expression of a fierier,
less restrained type. Wolfgang Kunert deserves our heartfelt
thanks as do the arrangers ,Jorg Achim Keller, Horst Muhlbradt,
and especially Colin Towns, for enabling Skidmore to show
this less familiar side of his personality. With this CD Alan
Skidmore acknowledges the relationship between the jazz musician
and the American popular song, and that of the collaboration
between the soloist and the full symphony orchestra. Each
listener will bring his or her own emotions to these exceptional
performances of well known ballads. For all the poise and
elegance of the arrangements, the natural spontaneity of Skidmore's
playing always shines through.
CD £11.50
Order Code: MMCD084
Tamburello
Peter King
Featuring: Peter King, Steve Melling, Alec Dankworth, Stephen
Keogh & James Hallawell
This Cd has been described as a milestone in the career of
a remarkable musician (Dave Gelly in the Guardian), and a
beautiful and original record (Linton Chiswick in Time Out).
As John Fordham writes "From King's whirlwind arrival
on the British jazz scene in 1959 to his reputation today
as one of the World's premier jazz soloists, this imaginative
and impassioned performer has wrestled with the enduring problem
of being seen and heard for the artist he truly is. This is
his most ambitious venture. His sweeping musical departures
from be-bop are tributes to the late F1 driver Ayrton Senna.
Peter King could not make an album of bleak formalism. All
of his attributes are at full throttle. King works with his
usual fluid energy on the boppish material, but the more spacious
and reflective settings of the pieces inspired by classical
forms touch depths in him that have rarely been caught on
disc. This might be the kind of session that makes people
talk about "hidden fires" in Peter King. In finding
ways to bring them more dramatically out into the open Kink
has taken a bold step that marks another turning point in
his career.
CD £11.50
Order Code: MMCD083
The Enchanter
John Miles Jr.
Featuring: John Miles Jr, Neil Angilley, Julian Crampton,
Phil Hudson, Laura Fairhurst, Mark Meader, Winston Clifford
& Dave Ohm.
When he made this CD John Miles Jr was already a road hardened
professional saxophone player and composer and this disc made
in 1993 reveals a wide ranging repertoire as both a powerful
saxophone soloist and an unexpectedly sophisticated composer.
The music includes some things you would expect to find on
a young saxophonist's disc in the 1990s, like the fierce and
intense forays into high energy Coltrane-like playing, but
there are also delicate and highly wrought compositions of
unexpectedly baroque elegance, that mix bright restless synth
figures with Latin tempos and revealing examples of Miles'
intelligence and maturity on a well travelled standard such
as "You Don't Know What Love Is".
CD £11.50
Order Code: MMCD082
East to West
Alan Skidmore Quartet
Featuring: Alan Skidmore, Stan Tracey, Roy Babbington, Clark Tracey, Steve Melling, Mick Hutton & Bryan Spring.
Two concerts, one recorded in Hong Kong, the other in London, both led by the redoubtable Alan Skidmore, make this CD a fine addition to this catalogue. It's no secret that Alan Skidmore's saxophone playing life was transformed by the example of John Coltrane, and the best Skidmore performances are devoted to Coltrane's muse. This has always been a Skidmore trademark. This CD offers an insight into the way in which Skidmore alters his approach to solos according to his rhythm section partners. Although the partnership with the Stan Tracey Band is heated and fiercely swinging, the trio featuring pianist Steve Melling, Mick Hutton, and drummer Bryan Spring leaves more space for Skidmore to build a series of soaring solos. The band makes a tour de force out of the furious Mr PC. The saxophonist takes this famous Coltrane blues and blows it inside out. It's Skid doing what he does best, and that adds up to a hell of a lot of music.
CD £11.50
Order Code: MMCD081