Mike Westbrook

Mike Westbrook, Kate Westbrook – Paintbox Jane – Raoul Dufy Paints a Portrait (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:17:26 minutes | 804 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Westbrook Records

Westbrook & Company presents jazz cabaret ‘Paintbox Jane’, inspired by the painter Raoul Dufy, the jazz score is composed by legendary British jazz pianist/composer Mike Westbrook (winner of 2022 Parliamentary Jazz Awards for Services to Jazz) and with book lyrics by Kate Westbrook.

Tim Goodwin plays Raoul Dufy, with Kate Westbrook, Martine Waltier and Billie Bottle on vocals, Alan Wakeman on saxophone, Marcus Vergette on bass and Mike Westbrook on piano.
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Mike Westbrook, Kate Westbrook – London Bridge Live in Zurich 1990 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:26:26 minutes | 1,54 GB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Westbrook Records

London Bridge is Broken Down is a two-and-a-half-hour composition for voice, jazz orchestra and chamber orchestra, some fifty performers.

A collaboration between composer Mike Westbrook and vocalist/librettist Kate Westbrook, the work was inspired by travelling and performing in the mid 1980’s through a Europe at that time divided by the Berlin Wall ‘our personal map of Europe’. It includes settings of poetry in French, German and English. Its five movements are entitled London Bridge, Wenceslas Square, Berlin Wall, Vienna and Picardie.
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