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A Bigger Show (double album)

by Mike Westbrook, The Uncommon Orchestra

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about

A Bigger Show is a composition for a new 22 - piece ensemble The Uncommon Orchestra, with text by Kate Westbrook, involving three actors/vocalists, full big band plus double rhythm section. Based on the Waxeywork Show. Developed in workshops with students at the Grieg Academy, Bergen and the Guildhall School, London. Previewed Dartmoor August 2014. Toured West Country from Summer 2015. Featured soloists include vocalists Kate Westbrook, Martine Waltier and Billie Bottle, saxophonists Roz Harding and Alan Wakeman, Dave Holdsworth on trumpet and sousaphone.

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"It shouldn't be allowed. At an age when they should be revelling in their freedom passes, the Westbrooks refuse to compromise with the Furies and instead, like all great artists, they grasp life and dare to reflect it back to us in all its tainted glory. A Bigger Show is a sprawling big band project featuring three very different vocalists and a roaring chorus of brass.

Building on the premise that life is a circus, with the Internet offering all the treats and tricks of the fairground, the Westbrooks, as they have done for decades, have brought together voices from the local community, long time pals (Holdsworth first offered his services to Mike W. in the 1960's), theatre, cabaret and Mingus-scaled arrangements to enchant, thrill, scare, baffle and boggle us. As a live recording, you'd expect longuers, but the whole drives on, mixing ascerbic intellect with, particularly in the second half, unfettered emotions, notably on the blues-soaked dynamics of 'Gas, Dust, Stone'. Less a recording than a pledge to life, love and the future. The show must go on, bigger, better, forever."
Andy Robson - Jazzwise

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released October 17, 2019

Kate Westbrook & Martine Waltier voices
Billy Bottle voice & bass guitar
Sarah Dean alto saxophone and clarinet
Roz Harding alto saxophone
Alan Wakeman tenor & soprano saxophones
Gary Bayley tenor saxophone
Ian Wellens baritone saxophone
Mike Brewer & Sam Massey trumpets & flugelhorns
Dave Holdsworth sousaphone & pocket trumpet
Stewart Stunell, Andy Dore &
Joe Carnell trombones
Ken Cassidy bass trombone
Jesse Molins & Matthew North guitars
Marcus Vergette bass
Coach York & Theo Goss drums
Mike Westbrook keyboard
Tim Goodwin dramaturge

Recorded in Concert at
The Barnfield Theatre, Exeter on Thursday 30th July 2015
Recording engineered by Jon Hiseman and Miles Ashton
Concert sound by Josh Stone
Mixed by Jon Hiseman at Temple Music Studios, Sutton
Executive Producer Steve Plews

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Mike Westbrook London, UK

Mike Westbrook, composer and pianist, has received many honours and his outpouring of work in a career stretching over 50 years, ranges from scores for full orchestra to solo piano improvisation.

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