Jazz / Post-Bop; Modern Creative
2CDSML 8416 contains the glorious 1964 Argo double album Poetry and Jazz in Concert. The Michael Garrick Quintet featuring Shake Keane and Joe Harriott provides the jazz while the mercurial, witty minds and tongues of Jeremy Robson, Dannie Abse, Laurie Lee and Adrian Mitchell provide the poetry. Also included is the rare 1966 Argo EP Before Night/Day by the Michael Garrick Quintet with Jeremy Robson. Issued in stereo for the first time, it focuses on further explorations into the fascinating marriage of jazz with poetry.
"Robson's appreciation of the rhythms of jazz and the shapes of words works remarkably well….Michael Garrick's music both as interlude and accompaniment is marvellous... Shake Keane is glorious on 'Wedding Hymn' and Joe Harriott is, as ever, inspired. Turn off the TV and absorb."
Duncan Heining, Jazzwise, May 2006
POETRY AND JAZZ IN CONCERT - RECORD ONE
ORIGINAL ARGO LP ZDA 26 (1964) STEREO - 55:01 min.
The Michael Garrick Quintet play: Salvation March (Garrick)
Jeremy Robson introduces Adrian Mitchell reading:
Nostalgia - Now Threepence Off
Time and Motion Study
Veteran with a Head Wound
Pals (with jazz)
Jeremy Robson introduces Dannie Abse reading:
Sunday Evening
Extract from the Abandoned
Odd
Epithalamion
The Michael Garrick Quintet play:
Wedding Hymn (Garrick)
Dannie Abse talks about an Irishman
Dannie Abse reads Victim of Aulis
BEFORE NIGHT/DAY
ORIGINAL ARGO EP EAF 115 (1966) FIRST STEREO ISSUE
Jeremy Robson reads and The Michael Garrick Quintet play:
Cascade (Garrick; Robson)
Blues for the Lonely (Davis; Robson)
Before Night/Day (Garrick; Robson)
Day of Atonement (Garrick; Robson)
Sketches of Israel (Garrick; Robson)
The Game (Garrick; Robson)
POETRY AND JAZZ - RECORD TWO
ORIGINAL ARGO LP ZDA 27 (1964) STEREO - 48:10 min.
The Michael Garrick Quintet play:
Vishnu (Garrick)
Introducing Jeremy Robson reading:
Approaching Mount Carmel
The Michael Garrick Quintet play:
Mount Carmel (Garrick)
Jeremy Robson reads:
Winter Fears
Biography
S.O.S. "The Poets"
While Troops moved In
Letters to Algiers
The Midnight Scene (with jazz)
A Face in the Crowd (with jazz)
The Michael Garrick Quintet play:
Dixieland Improvisation
Jeremy Robson introduces Laurie Lee reading:
First Love
Juniper
Spring: April Rise
Summer: Milk Maid
Autumn: Day of these Days
Laurie Lee talks about the poem "Stork in Jerez"
Laurie Lee reads Stork in Jerez
Laurie Lee talks about the poem "Apples"
Laurie Lee reads:
Apples
The Long War
The Michael Garrick Quintet play:
She's Like a Swallow (Garrick)
THE MICHAEL GARRICK QUINTET:
Michael Garrick - piano
Coleridge Goode - bass
Colin Barnes - drums
Joe Harriott - alto-sax
Ian Carr - trumpet |
