Release by Mike Westbrook

Just over a year after recording his first album ‘Celebration’, in July 1967, Mike Westbrook took his Concert Band back into the Decca studios to record their second album ‘Release’. It was, in many ways I believe, an anti-jazz recording, at least in the sense that it was anti-free-form-jazz which was, in the late 1960s, beginning to take a devastating hold on the music.

What his new album did was use the discordant, and hugely powerful …

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