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Mike Westbrook, Kate Westbrook – Paintbox Jane – Raoul Dufy Paints a Portrait (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:17:26 minutes | 804 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Westbrook & Company presents jazz cabaret ‘Paintbox Jane’, inspired by the painter Raoul Dufy, the jazz score is composed by legendary British jazz pianist/composer Mike Westbrook (winner of 2022 Parliamentary Jazz Awards for Services to Jazz) and with book lyrics by Kate Westbrook.
Tim Goodwin plays Raoul Dufy, with Kate Westbrook, Martine Waltier and Billie Bottle on vocals, Alan Wakeman on saxophone, Marcus Vergette on bass and Mike Westbrook on piano.
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Mike Westbrook, Kate Westbrook – London Bridge Live in Zurich 1990 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:26:26 minutes | 1,54 GB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Jazz
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London Bridge is Broken Down is a two-and-a-half-hour composition for voice, jazz orchestra and chamber orchestra, some fifty performers.
A collaboration between composer Mike Westbrook and vocalist/librettist Kate Westbrook, the work was inspired by travelling and performing in the mid 1980’s through a Europe at that time divided by the Berlin Wall ‘our personal map of Europe’. It includes settings of poetry in French, German and English. Its five movements are entitled London Bridge, Wenceslas Square, Berlin Wall, Vienna and Picardie.
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Kate Westbrook – Earth Felt the Wound (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 56:32 minutes | 647 MB | Genre: Jazz
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b. Kate Barnard, Guildford, Surrey, England. Westbrook initially studied as a painter, exhibiting in the UK, Europe and the USA, before joining her future husband in the Mike Westbrook Brass Band (1974). Self-taught as a musician she sings and plays a variety of wind instruments, as well as composing and writing lyrics for many of Mike Westbrook’s groups. Independently, she was a guest soloist with the RAI Orchestra in Rome and the Zurich Radio Orchestra during the 70s, and in the 80s worked on projects with Lindsay Cooper. She sings in French, German, Greek and Italian and has performed from the works of poets and songwriters as diverse as D.H. Lawrence, William Blake, Cole Porter, Rossini and Lorca. In conjunction with Mike Westbrook, she organized many multi-media events involving music, performance and painting, which have been performed on television and the theatre. With such a wide variety of experience it is hardly surprising that she has complained: ‘I think we’ve got some way to go before there’s an understanding in the musical world of this thing greater than any category: music’.
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