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TRACKS
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MUSICIANS |
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1
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Undecided |
Roger Marks
(trombone) |
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2
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Kiss To Build A Dream
On
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Craig Milverton - piano |
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3
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Struttin' With
Some Barbeque
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Ken Rennison - tenor/alto sax
(not track 6) |
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4
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Limehouse Blues
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John Whitlock -
guitar
(tracks 1, 4, 5 & 8) |
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5
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Lady Be Good
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Bob Martin - double bass |
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6
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I Can See Clearly
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Gordon Clarke -
drums
(not track 8) |
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7
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Honiton High Street
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8
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Whispering
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9
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They Can't Take This
Away From Me
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10
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This Can't Be Love
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11
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September In The Rain |
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A Flight of Fancy
Roger Marks has kindly invited me to write these notes as one of the co-sponsor
initiators of this terrific CD.
We, Peter Dixon and Panda Bradford grew up llsington, Devon. Getting together again in early nineteen sixties London, our musical tastes ran to the likes of Sandy Brown, Bruce Turner etc., British mainstream at its best.
Panda emigrated to Oz to become Anne McGrath and we weren't to meet again until 1995 when one of the questions was "What's happening musically, especially in the West Country?" I had first heard Roger in Kingsbridge some twenty years earlier, sounding as good as any of the fast London company I was used to, thus I was able to say the Armada Jazz Band were really excellent, especially the trombonist. We tracked them down thereafter to gigs all over the West Country and Home Counties.
In addition to enjoying the Armada CDs I had also thrilled to the mainstream recordings of the Roger Marks Quintet, one of which included guest Bruce Turner, and the wonderful CD featuring piano trombone duets ('Somewhere over the Rainbow' - Raymer Sound RSCD683).
With the recruitment of reedman extraordinaire Ken Rennison into the Armada I suggested it seemed time for Roger to record some mainstream once again, renewing old musical alliances with former Quintet personnel Gordon Clarke (drums) and the now internationally known Exeter pianist Craig Milverton. Armada guitarist Johnny Whitlock was drafted in to do a 'Joseph Rheinhardt' on selected tunes and local multi-instrumentalist Bob Martin to handle the double bass job.
The resulting recordings, astonishingly together and relaxed for an unrehearsed collective, have been the vehicle by which we have been able to give back something to our beloved jazz and to change Roger's flight of fancy into a reality - thanks Roger and musicians all - enjoy.
British mainstream at its best!
Peter Dixon and Panda Bradford
2002
Recorded at the Toby Jug Inn, Chilton Polden, Bridgwater, Somerset by kind permission of the proprietor and jazz promoter Brian Veasey.
Recording dates:
17/9/02 (tracks 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11)
24/9/02 (tracks 1, 4, 5, 8, 9)
Recorded and produced by Raymer Sound
All photography - Gordon Clarke G.P.T.C.
(Cover photograph courtesy of Plymouth School of Flying)
Artwork design and lay-up - Raymer Graphics
Roger Marks gratefully acknowledges the sponsorship of jazz fans Peter Dixon and Anne McGrath (No.1 Australian fan) without whose instigation and support this recording would not have been made.
