Colin Towns and the NDR Big Band: John Lennon – In My Own Write - review

(Provocateur)Colin Towns, the British film and television-score writer and thrilling jazz composer, can give big-band music a rock group's heat, a symphony orchestra's polyphonic variety and a swing ensemble's flaring brassy punch. Bringing this influence to John Lennon's music has been a tantalising prospect since Towns's wilful version of I Am the Walrus in 2001. This Lennon double-album features Hamburg's powerful NDR Big Band, and is an often rip-roaring and sometimes idiosyncratically tende...

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