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| 1. | Secret Place
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| 2. | Veils
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| 3. | The Heron
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| 4. | Oncology
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| 5. | J.T.'s Symmetrical Scale
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| 6. | The Thrill Is Gone
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| 7. | Westerly
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| 8. | Coventry
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| 9. | So To Speake
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| 10. | Fly's Dilemma
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| 11. | Nikki
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| 12. | Secret Wood
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| 13. | Willow
for Mick Hutton
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| 14. | Luiza
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Jazz / Modern Creative, Contemporary Jazz
"Secret" (SRCD 3-2). This new contemporary jazz project features Martin Speake on alto saxophone, Nikki Iles on piano, Duncan Hopkins on double bass and Anthony Michelli on drums and cymbals. It was recorded in October 2000 at the end of a highly successful UK tour and despite its length of 78:32 mins took just over 5 hours to lay down. The vibrancy of the playing and the close rapport between the musicians is evident from the first track.
The album features compositions from all Iles, Speake and Hopkins as well as two well known standards - Jobim's Luiza and The Thrill is Gone by Brown/Henderson.
Martin met Duncan at The Banff Centre for the Performing Arts while studying with Steve Coleman in 1991. He recently performed with Anthony at the Jersey Jazz Festival. Duncan and Anthony perform together in various projects in Canada and already have a strong rapport in their playing. Martin and Nikki have performed and recorded together as a duo in the past and are now augmenting their music with these Canadian musicians.
MARTIN SPEAKE (alto saxophone)
Alto saxophonist and composer Martin Speake first became known as founder member of the award winning saxophone quartet Itchy Fingers with whom he toured Europe, South America, Africa, USA and Britain and recorded two albums. Since leaving this group in 1988 he has performed, recorded and composed extensively with his own projects. These groups include duos with pianist Nikki Iles and guitarist Phil Lee, the free improvising trio Eternal Triangle, his 'world music' group Fever Pitch and the Martin Speake Group featuring John Parricelli. He has also collaborated with Paul Motian, Bobo Stenson, Loose Tubes, Flora Purim and Airto Moreira, Billy Jenkins, Bob Wilber, Django Bates, Stan Tracey, Don Weller Big Band and Bhavani Shankar among others.
NIKKI ILES (piano)
Word had been out in musician's circles about Nikki Iles since way before she collected the John Dankworth Award for outstanding Individual at the 1996 British Jazz Awards. By then, as a member of the Creative Jazz Orchestra, she had already shared stages with Kenny Wheeler, Mike Gibbs, Vince Mendoza and Anthony Braxton, as well as composing her celebrated Printmakers Suite for an eight-piece version of that same band. She is a member of quartets led by Tina May, Geoff Simkins and Stan Sulzmann and has worked with most major British Jazz musicians on a freelance basis. As a composer she has received many commissions including The London Sinfonietta (Ellington Centenary) and New Perspectives (celebrating the work of Barbara Hepworth).
DUNCAN HOPKINS (double bass)
Duncan Hopkins has been busy establishing himself as a bassist and composer around the world. While primarily self taught, Duncan has studied with the best, including Michel Donato in Montreal, Rufus Reid at the Banff Centre for Fine Arts, Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen in Denmark and Dave Holland in New York City. Aside from his own projects, he has become a popular sideman for a wide variety of artists such as: Mark Murphy, Lester Bowie, Kenny Wheeler, Peter Appleyard, and arrangers Robert Farnon and Ralph Carmichael. He is also the current bassist in the famed Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass.
ANTHONY MICHELLI (drums)
Anthony is a graduate of Mohawk College, has studied at the Banff Centre and the Lake Placid Centre for the Arts and has a Bachelor of Music from the University of Toronto specialising in Jazz Performance. He is also the recipient of the 1995 Jazz Report Award for National Post-Secondary School Musician of the Year. He has performed at various club and concert venues both nationally and internationally in large and small ensembles with various artists, some of which include: Anthony Braxton, Reggie Workman, Maria Schneider Jim McNeely, Harry Connick Jr., Dick Oates, Ingrid Jensen, Pat Labarbera, Ed Bickert and Don Thompson.
Martin Speake
Active Decades: '90s and '00s
Born: 1958 in Barnet, London, England
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Contemporary Jazz, Jazz Instrument, Modern Creative, Saxophone Jazz
Alto saxophonist Martin Speake was born in 1958 in Barnet, England, where his childhood found him surrounded by music. He was drawn initially to the rock and pop music of the day, but shortly after he left school at the age of 16, Speake purchased an alto saxophone after hearing an album by Ornette Coleman, and the course of his life as a jazz horn player became set. He studied classical saxophone at Southgate Technical College and Trinity College of Music from 1977 to 1981, after which he began gigging with other musicians, most notably the sax quartet Itchy Fingers, who toured extensively in America, South America, and Africa. Speake left Itchy Fingers in 1988 and began concentrating on his own projects, many of which were carried out under the auspices of the Martin Speake Group. He also worked as part of duos with Phil Lee, Nikki Iles, Dharambir Singh, and others, as well as participating in the Fever Pitch, Mind and Time, and Eternal Triangle ensembles. His many albums and projects include Tan T'ien (1996), Trust (1998), Journey (2004), and Change of Heart, released in 2006 on ECM Records.
---Steve Leggett, All Music Guide |
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