6-cd box

To celebrate its 50th year since bassist Barry Guy assembled the London Jazz Orchestra for its first 1970 performance on BBC Radio, the now multinational band convened in Poland in 2020 for a series of concerts at Alchemia Club and Manggha Hall in configurations of duos to quintets, culminating in a full ensemble performance of two magnificently powerful works: "Flow" and "Harmos-Krakow

PERSONNEL:

• Barry Guy - (bass)
• Agustí Fernández - (piano)
• Michael Niesemann - (alto sax)
• Torben Snekkestad - (tenor & soprano saxes)
• Jürg Wickihalder - (alto sax)
• Simon Picard - (tenor sax)
• Julius Gabriel - (baritone sax)
• Konrad Bauer - (trombone)
• Andreas Tschopp - (trombone)
• Alan Tomlinson - (trombone)
• Henry Lowther - (trumpet)
• Martin Eberle - (trumpet)
• Rich Laughlin - (trumpet)
• Marc Unternährer - (tuba)
• Phil Wachsmann - (violin)
• Bruno Chevillon - (bass)
• Lucas Niggli - (drums, percussion)

Recorded in Kraków: March 6th, 2020 & Alchemia Club, March 7th & MArch 8th 2020

TRACKS:

• CD ONE: March 6th 2020, Alchemia Club
• 01. Guy/Picard/Niggli/Niesemann .....18:46
• 02. Lowther/Gabriel .....08:02
• 03. Tschopp/Bauer/Laughlin/Unternährer .....22:59

• CD TWO: March 6th 2020, Alchemia Club
• 01. Snekkestad/Fernández/Guy .....23:25
• 02. Wachsmann/Tomlinson .....12:18
• 03. Eberle/Wickihalder/Niggli/Chevillon .....18:15

• CD THREE: March 7th 2020, Manggha Hall
• 01. Lowther/Gabriel/Fernández/Chevillon/Niggli .....19:49
• 02. Chevillon/Gabriel/Unternährer .....13:49
• 03. Niesemann/Fernández/Wachsmann .....19:30

• CD FOUR: March 7th 2020, Manggha Hall
• 01. Snekkestad/Laughlin/Eberle/Bauer/Tomlinson .....28:03
• 02. Picard/Wickihalder/Tschopp/Chevillon/Guy/Niggli .....25:07

• CD FIVE: March 8th 2020, Manggha Hall
• 01. FLOW II .....17:18
• 02. FLOW I .....24:12

• CD SIX: March 8th 2020, Manggha Hall
• 01. HARMOS–KRAKÓW (by Barry Guy – PRS) .....41:31