Mike Westbrook: The Orchestra Of Smith's Academy

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  • Label: Enja, 1992-95
  • Order number: 9060838
  • Release date: 9.11.1998
  1. 1 Checking In At Hotel Le Prieure Start
  2. 2 I.D.M.A.T. (It Don't Mean A Thing) Start
  3. 3 Measure For Measure Start
  4. 4 So We'll Go No More A'Roving Start
  5. 5 Blighters Start
  6. 6 Viennese Waltz Start
  7. 7 Blues For Terenzi (Dedic. To The Memory Of D. Terenzi) Start
+ Steve Martland Band

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Premiered in July 1992 at a 3-day Mike Westbrook Festival in Catania, Sicily, "The Orchestra of Smith's Academy" denotes a program of Westbrook compositions and arrangements that all derived from a certain harmonic device. The composer discovered it in 1983 while staying at Smith's Hotel in Glasgow, and subsequently called it "Smith's Hotel Chord". Westbrook used the chord as a matrix for large works such as "After Smith's Hotel" and "London Bridge Is Broken Down" where three of the tunes in this program are taken from. Two more compositions - I. D.M. A.T. (after Ellington's It Don't Mean A Thing) and Measure For Measure (commissioned by the Vienna Art Orchestra) - received their first public performances at the Catania Festival.

In addition to the six orchestra works, the CD contains a composition written for the Steve Martland Band and dedicated to the memory of trombone player Danilo Terenzi. (westbrookjazz. co. uk)

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