Michael Garrick Jazz Orchestra: Tone Poems – review

(Jazz Academy)The 77-year-old jazz musician Michael Garrick is a world-class composer of spare, memorable themes and eloquent big ensemble voicings – as this collection of contemporary reworkings of his pieces reaffirms. Opening moments aside (the first track's line "Summer days are here again, time to book your holidays" representing the English tweeness that is Garrick's only downside), the impact over the next nine pieces is often audaciously swinging, and sometimes elegiacally beautiful. G...

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