0507 Sandy Brown John Mortimer [Dr McJazz] FLAC 23(1.02.07)

Contributed by bluebird

Collective personnel:
Al Fairweather - trumpet
Colin Smith - trumpet
Colin Purbrook - trumpet, piano, tambourine
Tony Milliner - bass trumpet, trombone
John Mortimer - trombone
Danny Moss - tenor
Sandy Brown - clarinet, piano, vocal
Brian Lemon - piano
Brian Prudence - bass
Jack Fallon - bass
Stan Greig - drums
Denny Hutchinson - drums
Benny Goodman - drums
Lennie Hastings  -drums
Bill Bramwell - guitar, gong
Belle Gonzalez - vocal

01 Harlem Fats
02 Wee Jimmy
02 Bimbo
04 Blues A
05 Monday
06 The Behemoth
07 Al's Tune
08 Monsoon
09 Real Sweet
10 Glories In The Evening
11 Doctor McJazz
12 Own Up
13 The Clan
14 Portrait Of Willie Best
15 Oh, Dong Bang That Gong
16 Belle's Farewell
17 Two Blue
18 Yaknik
19 Dinah
20 Wind Of Change
21 Blues March
22 Bula Bula
23 Anything You Want

Label: Lake LACD211
Recorded: July 06 1960-December 1962
Lineage: CD>FLAC
Scans: Full

0503 Belle Gonzalez [Contemporary Poets Set In Jazz] FLAC 4(11.58)

Contributed by bellawoods, who writes:-
This is the second and follow up ep by Belle Gonzalez

Belle Gonzalez - vocals
Eddie Blair - trumpet, flugelhorn
Johnny Marshall - trombone
Alan Branscombe - alto
Art Ellefson - tenor, bass clarinet
Freddie Logan - bass
Tony Crombie - drums

01 Underneath The Abject Willow
02 Stop All The Clocks
03 Lesbos
04 The Housewife

Label: Jupiter jep OC39
Recorded: c.1964
Lineage: EP>FLAC
Scans: Front and back EP covers

0460 Belle Gonzalez [Poets Set In Jazz] FLAC 4(11.37)

Contributed by bellawoods, who writes:-
Now almost forgotten, Belle Gonzalez had an active career as a vocalist in the UK during the 1960s and 1970s, not always in the jazz field, as her interests were wide, but in  cabaret, popular music and the folk field.
She made a couple of jazz eps (of which this is one) for the obscure Jupiter label, recorded two tracks with the Al Fairweather group in 1960, one lp under her own name, half a dozen tracks on an lp with others and that was the total of her commercial discography.
She was born to parents of mixed heritage in Italy in the 1930s then moved to The Philippines in 1939, where she first sang in the 1950s and then settled in the UK in the 1960s.
She retired from singing in 1981 and became a piano teacher.  As far as I know, she is still alive but not active in music.  You can hear her on YouTube in a few of her recordings.
This ep is not, as you might think,  poetry set to jazz.  It is poetry which has been adapted for, and sung by, Belle with a jazz sextet. The second of her eps will be posted here at a later date.
It is really quite unusual and quite beautiful too.

Belle Gonzalez - vocals
Eddie Blair - trumpet
Al Newman - alto
Leslie Pearson - piano
Ike Isaacs - guitar
Al Burke - bass
Stan Gorman - drums

01 Time Of Roses
02 We'll Go No More A-Roving
03 When I Am Dead, My Dearest
04 My True Love Hath My Heart

Label: Jupiter OC 37
Recorded: c. 1964
Lineage: EP>FLAC
Scans: Front and back covers

Belle Gonzalez web page:
http://www.sandybrownjazz.co.uk/profilebellegonzalez.html