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New Orchestra Quintet
The Complete Recordings: 1978-'79
The 6 CD Box Set with notes is currently out of print
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"The New Orchestra Quintet is the strongest thing I’ve heard coming out of Canada. "
- Milo Fine, Cadence Magazine, 1980
"Up ‘Til Now presents conceptual and structural risks, abrupt juxtapositions and flaring tangents."
- Bill Shoemaker, Coda Magazine,1980
"Up ‘Til Now far outstripped Canadian records in 1980."
- Mark Miller, Globe and Mail, 1982.
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Sunship Jazz Ensemble
Includes booklet insert
The Sunship Ensemble,
which formed in
1974,
was a group in tune with its times. The incorporation of world music,
drawn
from many cultures,
was evident in many celebrated jazz
groups
of the early 1970s. Their music reflected the Afro-Latin influences of
the
times, but Sunship Ensemble
incorporated even more extended
free
form improvisations than most other fusion groups of the time. Although
international
in outlook, the group
played a regionally-based
music,
influenced by the west coast rainforest environment.
Alan Sharpe (guitar)// Clyde Reed (bass/)/ Gregg Simpson (drums)
Compositions
1. Mesopotamia 2. Atlantis Rising 3. Inca 4. Great Wall of China 5. African Village
6. Green Apple Quickstep 7. Birds of a Feather 8. Stop Stop 9. Nest of the Wounded Crow
Some of the material for this CD was previously
released
on a 1975 CBC Transcription Recording, entitled Pacific Rim, produced by
George Laverock, including several originals by Alan Sharpe and one piece entitled Great Wall of China, written by the Montreal-born pianist,
Rick Kitaeff whose group in Japan at the time, Electric Ninja, shared the CBC album with the Sunship Ensemble. To reflect the Pacific Rim theme,
the groups each did a composition by their counterpart across the Pacific
Recorded: #1-8: 1975, #9: 1971, #1- 4 CBC Studio 'A',Vancouver, #5-9:
various
studios in Vancouver.George Laverock, including several originals by Alan Sharpe and one piece entitled Great Wall of China, written by the Montreal-born pianist,
Rick Kitaeff whose group in Japan at the time, Electric Ninja, shared the CBC album with the Sunship Ensemble. To reflect the Pacific Rim theme,
the groups each did a composition by their counterpart across the Pacific
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Includes an illustrated booklet
