HARMOS - KRAKÓW

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HARMOS - KRAKÓW by Barry Guy with the London Jazz Composers Orchestra

Barry Guy - bass, director
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

this CD is a re-release from the 6-CD box set published in 2022 on the NOTTWO label (MW1027-2)

from the liner notes by John Sharpe:

Fifty years and counting. In March 2020 one of the most important large groups in European jazz, The London Jazz Composers Orchestra celebrated its golden anniversary over three days in Krakow which culminated in the triumphant performance of "Harmos" heard here. Long a staple of the LJCO repertoire, with its beautiful central tune, it's one of leader Barry Guy's most approachable works. This rendition was powerful and moving, studded throughout with absolute dynamite individual contributions, and furnished a fitting conclusion to a fabulous event …

… It was an incredibly stirring and moving experience which well merited the consequent prolonged standing ovation. In his notes to the 1989 edition of "Harmos", Guy finished by saying "For this one I aimed for the soul!" He assuredly hit his target.