news:
Keith Tippett is composing a new piece for the band to be entitled
"Absolutely Specifically for You". The premiere will be on Monday 25th June as part of the Glasgow International Jazz Festival. More news as we have it!
The group will be taking this new music round Scotland in the Autumn, including a gig in the Town Hall, Lerwick. Watch this space...
Coming soon: One Bloke - new CD on Textile Records featuring Lol Coxhill, Daniel Padden and Bill Wells.This is a celebration of the work of Steve Lacy, one of the 20th Century's Big four exponents of the soprano saxophone: Bechet, Lacy, Parker and Coxhill; each one more enigmatic than the rest.
Raymond has a number of new CDs and projects on the go including a forthcoming duo CD on Cleanfeed with Günter Baby Sommer called Delphinius & Lyra and Aporias - a quintet CD recorded in 2004 with Tatsuya Nakatani, Peter Nicholson, Nick Fells and Neil Davidson out now on Creative Sources.
All these records available from the band or from Boa Melody Bar
Sept 06
The George Burt / Raymond MacDonald Sextet
featuring Keith Tippett and Ken Hyder Burt MacDonald played the Ultimate Chill festival in Dundee with two of the pioneers of European jazz and improvised music. For over thirty years Keith Tippett has been at the forefront of contemporary European jazz and new music as a pianist, composer and musical educator. www.mindyourownmusic.co.uk/keith-tippett.htm One of the most distinctive voices in drumming, Ken Hyder, makes a return to his home town. "He has provided a blueprint for the increasing number of Europe musicians who have been incorporating elements of folk music into their jazz." Guinness Who's Who of Jazz. www.hyder.demon.co.uk
Burt/MacDonald’s new CD BooHoo Fever released on Leo records featuring the great Keith Tippett on piano: develops their exploration of the fruitful ground between composition and improvisation with evocative soundscapes and melodies recorded on the Isle of Mull off Scotland’s West Coast.
August 06
George Burt's account of his trio gig with Keith and Julie Tippett
May 06
Gig with Michael Zerang, Fred Lonberg Holm, Bill Wells and Daniel Padden at the recital room of Glasgow's City Halls.
January 2006
Out now: The Great Shark Hunt on FMR featuring Bill Wells - keyboard, Daniel Padden - clarinet, voice and percussion and once again the great Lol Coxhill playing bent sopranino.
November 2005
George and Raymond play in Milan with Walter Prati.
Autumn 2005
Recently Lol Coxhill and Sushil K. Dade played with the band in our Hotel Dilettante project. This culminated in a Paris gig and a new CD on the Textile label.
Summer 2005
Recording and concerts on Mull with Keith Tippett. The band were artists in residence at the An Tobar art centre on the Isle of Mull for a week in July. This lead to the release of Day for a Reason on the centre's own label.
2004
Keith Tippett played with us in December '04 and contributed apposite piano to A Day for a Reason, our set of new songs and pieces from the Isle Of Mull. Information about ordering CDs can be found through the recordings page, along with mp3s.The group will continue to play in various places throughout Scotland and the rest of Europe in the near future and work with like minded artists such as Jens Lekman, Bill Wells and - under the auspices of the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra - Barry Guy and Gunter Sommer.
One of the most innovative bands in Scotland - The List
Some of Scotland's key musicians -The Wire
This month hippest release - Jazzwise
Leading Scottish contemporary jazz- The Guardian
A band where the musicians cherish the music rather than the spotlight -The Herald
Deeply satisfying - Sunday Herald
one of the best jazz gigs Edinburgh has seen - Edinburgh Evening News
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