BRITISH JAZZ HERO III
July 21, 2010 – 3:53 amIan Carr was trumpeter, composer, author, broadcaster, journalist, campaigner, teacher and more.
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Ian Carr Celebration - Nucleus Revisited [no label, 1CD]
Live at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, UK, February 23, 2010, broadcast on Radio 3 Jazz Line Up on April 23/24 2010. Excellent FM stereo.
“In celebration of the hugely respected hero of British jazz, who died last February, this concert features a re-formed edition of Carr’s seminal electric band, Nucleus; the London premiere of ‘Northumbrian Sketches’ with soloist Guy Barker and string ensemble conducted by Mike Gibbs; plus Michael Garrick with a group evocative of his collaborations with Ian Carr in the 1960s. Norma Winstone, Ray Russell, John Marshall and Tim Whitehead will be among many leading British jazz stars taking part. All proceeds went to the Alzheimers Society.” - The press release.
About the time electric rock entered jazz with Miles Davis, Ian Carr started England’s pioneer jazz-rock band, Nucleus, in 1969. They recorded as a unit until 1972 then fragmented as Nucleus became a band with whoever Carr played. Among their career highlights was Nucleus winning best band at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1969.
For this concert, guests John Marshall and Ray Russell made rare appearances. Marshall was a founder member of Nucleus. Russell was a Nucleus alumnus in the ’70s. Some of the music played comes from 1979’s Out Of The Long Dark album. Carr’s compositions for Nucleus stayed at the center neither swerving to world music nor straying too deep into the avant garde branch.
The most important thing to remember when listening to Carr’s music is his belief that jazz was not the sole proprietorship of Americans.
Big thanks to 6135terry for sharing the FM broadcast on Dime and fastone for the artwork.
Lineage: FM > Pioneer cd recorder > WAV > FLAC
Read Ian Carr’s obituary here.
Click on the highlighted tracks to download the MP3s (these are high quality MP3s - sample rate of 256 kbps). As far as we can ascertain, these tracks have never been officially released on CD.
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Third set
Track 01. Mr Jelly Lord 08:00 (14.6MB)
Track 02. Selina 08:35 (15.7MB)
Track 03. Roots 08:42 (16.3MB - visit the html page to download the track)
Track 04. Mutatis Mutandis/Julian Joseph announcement 05:56 (10.8MB)
as lineup except Ray Russell (g) added
Track 05. Midnight Oil 08:00 (14.6MB)
as Track 5 above except John Marshall added on drums
Track 06. Lady Bountiful 09:52 (18.5MB - visit the html page to download the track)
Track 07. Things Past/Julian Joseph announcement 10:21 (19.4MB - visit the html page to download the track)
Lineup:
Phil Todd, Tim Whitehead (Sax & Woodwind), Chris Batchelor (tpt), Rob Statham (bass), Nic France - drums (1>5, 7, perc on 6), Mark Wood (g), Geoff Castle (kbd)
In 2002, the BGO label reissued Nucleus
2 Responses to “BRITISH JAZZ HERO III”
Thanks also for this 3rd volume — Ian Carr: What a great discovery!
Cheers to everyone at Bigozine,
Serge.
By Serge Zéni on Jul 21, 2010
Not something I would have chosen to listen to without your prompting.
Glad I did. Thanks again, BigO
By tony on Jul 24, 2010