Callum Au & Claire Martin - Songs And Stories [CD]
Two leading lights of the British jazz scene: composer, arranger and trombonist, Callum Au, and internationally admired singer, Claire Martin, join forces for a new album, “Songs and Stories” on the Copenhagen-based Stunt label. “The album, featuring a total of 82 exceptional musicians, from the UK, Europe and the USA, is a stunningly arranged selection of jazz standards and American Songbook classics, given compelling, sensitive, modern orchestral and big band treatments, whilst drawing extensive style and influence from the definitive peaks of this genre in past eras.
Personnel:
Callum Au - arrangements
Claire Martin - vocals
Big Band:
Trumpets
- Louis Dowdeswell, Tom Walsh, George Hogg, James Davison, Trombones -
Andy Wood, Callum Au, Chris Traves, Barry Clements, Saxophones - Sam
Mayne, Simon Marsh,
Paul Booth, Tom Richards, Martin Williams, Piano -
Rob Barron, Guitar - Tommy Emmerton, Bass - Jeremy Brown, Drums - Matt
Skelton, Percussion James Turner
Orchestra:
Conductor - Mark
Nightingale, Violins John Mills* (leader), Jeremy Isaac*, Anna Harpham,
Ben Buckton, Charis Jenson, Charles Mutter, Ciaran McCabe, Emma Parker,
Everton Nelson, Helena Wood, Gemma Sharples, Katerina Nazarova, Kate
Robinson, Lizzie Ball, Marianne Haynes, Maria Spengler, Matt Elston,
Natalia Bonner, Nicole Wilson, Patrick Savage, Pete Graham, Ruth Rogers,
Thom Gould, Tom Piggott Smith, Violas- Lydia Lowndes-Northcott*, Anna
Cooper, Annie Beilby, Ben Newton, Bruce White, Bryony Mycroft, Jonathan
Barritt, Kay Stephen, Celli Bozidar Vukotic*, Adrian Bradbury, Frank
Schaeffer, James Barralet, Magda Pietraszewska, Rowena Calvert, Basses -
Dom Worsley*, Richard Pryce, Laurence Ungless, Woodwind -Karen Jones*,
Monica McCarron, Jane Marshall, Howard McGill, Simon Marsh, Jessamy
Holder, Peter Long, Horns - Richard Watkins*, Katy Woolley, Corrine
Bailey, Matt Gunner, Trombones - Andy Wood*, Matt Lewis, Barry Clements,
Tuba Owen Slade, Rhythm: Bass - Laurence Ungless, Drums - Matt Skelton,
Percussion - James Turner, Piano & Celesta - Rob Barron, Guitar -
Tommy Emmerton, Harp - Hugh Webb
Tracks:
1. Pure Imagination (5:42)
2. Let’s Get Lost (4:14)
3. I Get Along Without You Very Well (4:24)
4. The Folks Who Live on the Hill (3:39)
5. Hello, Young Lovers! (2:34)
6. I Concentrate on You (6:57)
7. I Never Went Away (3:55)
8. The Night We Called It a Day (4:33)
9. Stars Fell on Alabama (3:37)
10. Don’t Like Goodbyes (3:58)
11. You and the Night and the Music (2:56)