Steve Buckley/Chris Batchelor
Life As We Know It
BDV9925

Steve Buckley, saxophones, whistles, clarinets and percussion; Chris Batchelor, trumpet, tenor horn, tuba and percussion; Paul Clarvis, drums and percussion; Mark Sanders, drums and percussion.

1. Dark Horses
2. Decisions Decisions
3. Les Vignes
4. Sliver Moon
5. The Art of Flying Backwards
6. Pitter Patter
7. The Shortest Day
8. Toon Town
9. Deadpan Alley
10. And Peace Thereafter
11. Life As We Know It

Chris Batchelor and Steve Buckley won the BBC Jazz Award for New Work, 2001 and are the nucleus of the band Big Air with NY pianist Myra Melford, drummer Jim Black and tuba player Oren Marshall who are scheduled to release a CD on Babel in Spring 2006.

'Buckley and Batchelor join Django Bates and Iain Ballamy as really important names in 90s jazz and make this the unexpected highlight of the year so far. "Life as we know it" moves British jazz forward in a very accessible yet inventive way.'
Peter Bacon - The Birmingham Post, CD of the year, 19-06-99