1. 1. Blue Note (Barnes/Plater) Listen
2. 2. Throwing Out The Vinyl Blues (Barnes/Plater) Listen
3. 3. Waltz For Sonny (Barnes/Plater) Listen
4. 4. Slim's Chicken (Barnes/Plater) Listen
5. 5. The Ballad Of Miles Davis (Barnes/Plater) Listen
6. 6. The Motorway Jump (Barnes/Plater) Listen
7. 7. The Power Of Prez (Barnes/Plater) Listen
8. 8. Love Song For A Slob (Barnes/Plater) Listen
9. 9. The Rythm Method (Barnes/Plater) Listen
10. 10. Rhyme Time (Barnes/Plater) Listen
11. 11. Dinner Jazz (Barnes/Plater) Listen
12. 12. Swallows On The Water (Barnes/Plater) Listen
13. 13. Everybody's Got To be Somewhere (Barnes/Plater) Listen

Details

The result of a unique collaboration between multi-award-winning jazz musician and composer Alan Barnes and multi-award-winning playwright and jazz freak Alan Plater. In their mission statement, cobbled together in a bar in Birmingham, they say: "We want to write songs for the kind of people, places and institutions usually neglected by songwriters - for wonderful musicians like Joe Harriott and Sonny Criss - for great originals like Slim Gaillard and Spike Milligan- for local rhythm sections, jazz anoraks, RAC route maps and slobs who don't wash as often as they might."

Reviews

This superb album casts dramatist Alan Plater as lyricist and Saxophonist Alan Barnes as composer, arranger and vibrant soloist. This is a very fine album indeed, something of a British jazz triumph.

Chris Yates - Jazz Rag

Playwright Alan Plater’s work is full of jazz references and he regularly escapes from his proper job to go touring with a bunch of musicians, telling tall stories between the numbers. It was during one of these jaunts that he and saxophonist- composer Alan Barnes hatched this set of 13 songs about lost jazz heroes, old records, motorway cafes and their mutual dislike of “Dinner jazz”. Liz Fletcher sings them with great style and the band is packed with top players.

Dave Gelly - The Observer

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