BLACK VINYL EDITION

In March of 2023 composer, arranger & alto saxophonist Cassie Kinoshi premiered a commissioned suite of music in front of a sold out crowd at London’s Southbank Centre. She wrote the piece – gratitude – for her flagship large ensemble seed., in a special augmented formation that also featured turntablist NikNak and the London Contemporary Orchestra (LCO).

Running confidently at 21 minutes and 33 seconds (not including the album’s B Side / final track “Smoke in the Sun,” which was recorded separately at Total Refreshment Centre) and going straight for the heart, gratitude is an evolved, emotionally attuned, creatively ambitious and compositionally exquisite philharmonic expression of post-millennial UK jazz.

PERSONNEL:

[1-6] Recorded live at the Southbank Centre, Purcell Room, London, March 2023
Cassie Kinoshi - (alto saxophone)
NikNak - (turntables)
Jack Banjo Courtney – (trumpet 1)
Joseph Oti-Akenteng – (trumpet 2)
Deji ljishakin – (tenor saxophone)
Joe Bristow – (trombone)
Hanna Mbuya – (tuba)
Maria Chiara Argirò – (piano)
Shirley Tetteh – (guitar)
Karl Onibuje – (double bass)
Rio Kai – (double bass)
Patrick Gabriel-Boyle – (drums)
Clare Bennett – (flute)
Alastair Penman – (clarinet and bass clarinet)
Ellie Consta - (violin 1)
Gillon Cameron – (violin 2)
Jordan Bergmans – (viola)
James Douglas – (cello)

[7] Recorded at Total Refreshment Centre, London, April 2021.

Cassie Kinoshi - (alto saxophone)
Jack Banjo Courtney – (trumpet 1)
Sheila Maurice-Grey – (trumpet 2)
Deji ljishakin – (tenor saxophone)
Joe Bristow – (trombone)
Hanna Mbuya – (tuba)
Deschanel Gordon – (piano)
Shirley Tetteh – (guitar)
Rio Kai – (double bass)
Patrick Gabriel-Boyle – (drums)

TRACKS:

A1. GRATITUDE
- I ....... 04:58
- II ....... 04:03
- Interlude I ....... 1:41
- III sun through my window ....... 3:42
- Interlude II ....... 2:24
- IV ....... 4:45
    
B1. SMOKE IN THE SUN ....... 5:37