Vortex
Foundation Big Band
Charybdis
BDV 2340
TRACKLISTING:
Showtime (Issie Barratt);
New Day (Diane Mcloughlin); Vejer de la Frontera (Alison Rayner); Now
the Hour (Mason/Grimes); News to Me (Angele Veltmeijer); Never Say Never
(Grimes/ Mason); Awakenings (Vicari); Got my Modem Working (Deirdre Cartwright);
My Little Red Top (Hampton/Kynard)
Annie Whitehead - Trombone/director Carol Grimes vocals // Josefina Cupido drums & percussion // Alison Rayner basses // Deirdre Cartwright guitar // Andrea Vicari piano & keys // Issie Barrat baritone sax // Angèle Veltmeijer tenor sax // Diane McLoughlin alto & soprano saxes // Barbara Snow trumpet &flugelhorn // Kay Charlton trumpet & flugelhorn // Gail Brand Trombone
"Much more than a right-on gesture, this is a new British big band with a future." (John Fordham - The Guardian)
Emerging in 2002 under the patronage of the Vortex Jazz Club in Stoke Newington, London, the all-female 11-piece contemporary Big Band was specially formed for the 2002 London Jazz Festival and is a showcase for jazz writers as well as players. Babel releases a live recording from March 2003 at the Vortex. It features varied material across the experience of many of the talented writers and performers in the band capturing a live feel-good vivacious spirit that crosses the borders of soul, contemporary big band jazz, latin fusion, funk, Soca, and Africanmusic.
ALL PROFITS FROM THE SALE OF THIS CD GO TO THE VORTEX JAZZ FOUNDATION
