Get the Blessing/Beats and Pieces - review

Ronnie Scott's, LondonLast year Loose Tubes, the British big band that broke the jazz-orchestra mould, marked the 20th anniversary of its 1990 dissolution with a previously undiscovered live recording (Dancing on Frith Street) from Ronnie Scott's. If anyone at the same venue happened to be recording the recent performance by the young Manchester orchestra Beats and Pieces, the results will almost certainly be greeted with a similar awe two decades on.Beats and Pieces don't sound like Loose Tubes...

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