London Bridge Is Broken Down
London Bridge Is Broken Down was commisioned by 'Le Temps du Jazz' (Festival International de Jazz d'Amiens) and premiered at La Maison de la Culture, Amiens on 26 May 1987. It was performed again on September 22nd at the MUSICA 87 festival in Strasbourg. The album was recorded for Virgin/Venture, produced by Fiachra Trench, at Studio Pathe Marconi EMI, Paris 7th - 10th December 1987 and released in 1988. Digitally remastered and re-released on BGO Records in 2008.
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Mike Westbrooks Village Band
Mike Westbrook Village Band brings together a group of South Devon-based musicians to play his compositions and arrangements. Current performances feature 'ENGLISH SOUP or THE BATTLE OF THE CLASSIC TRIFLE', a new composition for voice and brass sextet and the first original piece written for the Village Band, THE WAXEYWORK SHOW.
Music by Mike Westbrook and lyrics by Kate Westbrook.
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Kate Westbrook / Mike Westbrook Duo
The DUO's current programme draws on a
30-year song writing collaboration. It presents the Westbrooks' original compositions and settings of poetry alongside re-workings of classic songs by Cole Porter, Kurt Weill and Friedrich Hollaender.
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ART WOLF
One of the many collaborations between composer
Mike Westbrook and librettist Kate Westbrook, performed in a new
quartet featuring saxophonists Pete Whyman and Chris Biscoe, ART WOLF is inspired by the life and work of the Alpine painter
Caspar Wolf (1735-1783) whose very signature was the image of
the wolf.
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Art Wolf CD
Chanson Irresponsable - The New Westbrook Orchestra
This 80 minute work takes as its starting point the song of the Sedge- Warbler. With music by Mike Westbrook and texts by Kate Westbrook, the piece is performed by the New Westbrook Orchestra a 15-piece ensemble that combines jazz and classical vocalists and instrumentalists.
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Off Abbey Road - Mike Westbrook Band
Based on The Beatles’ Abbey Road album. Arranged for 8-piece band featuring vocalists Kate Westbrook and Phil Minton. Commissioned by Comune di Reggio Emilia for a festival in Reggio Emilia in December 1988 celebrating the music of The Beatles. Recorded live at Willisau Jazz Festival in August 1989.
Revived in 1995 with vocalist John Winfield in place of Phil Minton, for a Beatles Festival in Trento, Italy. During '96 there were performances in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Finland, France and the UK.
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Abbey Road CD
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Composed by Mike Westbrook with texts by William Blake
William Blake's 250th birthday was celebrated in 2007 with a choral version of the classic "Westbrook Blake".
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