5060966700197

Copperfield: A Dickensian Jazz Suite

Alan Barnes Octet

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Format: CD

Cat No: WVCD153

Release Date:  28 October 2022

Label:  Woodville Records

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  5060966700197

Genres:  Jazz  Contemporary  

  • Description

    This new suite of pieces from the esteemed jazz saxophonist/composer Alan Barnes, takes you through the characters and scenes of David Copperfield, alongside his octet made up the finest players on the UK scene, including Bruce Adams, Mark Nightingale, Karen Sharp, David Newton and Clark Tracey.

    The eight virtuoso musicians bring the characters and scenes to life, switching from hilarity to pathos with a skill that would have done credit to Dickens himself. A cheery clarinet plays Copperfield, the lost orphan Little Em'ly is a lyrical tenor, Mr Dick flies his kite in the personage of a soaring flugelhorn and trombone, Mr Micawber expresses "Something will turn up!" on the piano and Uriah Heep writhes around on the bass clarinet. Just as we see David progress through the trials of his life, so the movements of this suite seem to develop along with him.

    "Barnes is a true Dickensian. He is a serious reader of the novels. It is a clear blunder of providence that he was born too late to appear in their pages!" - Hot News.

    Alan Barnes: saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet and narration
    Bruce Adams: trumpet
    Mark Nightingale: trombone
    Robert Fowler, Karen Sharp: saxophones and clarinet
    David Newton: piano
    Simon Thorpe: bass
    Clark Tracey: drums

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Copperfield Theme
      • 2. Mr Peggotty's Boat House
      • 3. Barkis is Willin'
      • 4. Creakle and Tungay
      • 5. Tommy Traddles' Skeletons
      • 6. Mudstone and Grinby's
      • 7. Mr Dick Flies his Kite
      • 8. Mr Micawber
      • 9. Little Em'ly
      • 10. Steerforth
      • 11. Uriah Heep
      • 12. Dora and Jip
      • 13. Agnes
      • 14. A New Life