Only a lightly funky version of “Feel Like Making Love” rises above the level of pleasant background music. has two spots on soprano, and trumpeter Jon Faddis is in the brass section, James’ dated Fender Rhodes keyboard is the lead voice throughout the six pieces, which include two adaptations of classical works. Label: Evosound | Hong Kong | Cat#: EVSA569S | Genre: Contemporary Jazzīob James’ first recording for his Tappan Zee label is typically lightweight.
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Total Size: 1.45 GB (ISO) + 730 MB (FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery John Dankworth CBE, one of Britain's best known jazz musicians, composers and commentators is a patron.Bob James – One (1974)
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The Foundation specifically helps students studying full time at the LCM and is Alan's way of giving something back to the music industry by helping to ensure financial difficulties don't prevent Britain's brightest musical talent from gaining access to expert tuition and from kick-starting professional careers in music. His Board duties have included 5 years serving on the APC (Association of Professional Composers) now under the BASCA organisation.Īnd finally, when Alan isn't performing with talent he's investing in it! In 2004, in association with the Performing Rights Society (PRS), he setup The Alan Hawkshaw Foundation at Leeds College of Music (LCM) - the area he hails from - which is a scholarship programme providing financial support to gifted young musicians enrolled on the College's Music and Jazz degree courses. Petal receiving two prestigious awards from BMI for over 3 million sales on two of its titles Let Me Be There and If You Love Me Let Me Know. In addition, Alan is the MD of Petal Music and Alan Hawkshaw Music. Alan's song compositions continue into the 21st Century having composed, produced and arranged the entire Bob Saker album, On A Night Like This and Des O'Connor's Inspired album (both currently available on i- Tunes!).Īside from all this Alan is currently delighted to be working with renowned Theatre and Film Screenwriter David Soames, on their exciting collaboration of the Musical Berlin. It also allowed him to score enchanting orchestral arrangements of standards such as David Raksin's Laura and Michel Legrand's What are You Doing the Rest of Your Life. It gave Alan one of his few opportunities during the '70s to record in a straight-ahead jazz trio setting, and he came up with spellbinding improvisations on evergreens such as Errol Garner's Mist and Anthony Newley's and Leslie Bricusse's Who Can I Turn To. Collage was a studio band consisting of electric bassist Dave Richmond, Brian Bennett on drums and Alan on acoustic and electric pianos and organ, and was assembled solely for this project. One of the best places to hear this side of Alan's talent is on the Misty LP, recorded by Collage in 1973 for EMI's Studio 2 subsidiary.
He is a superb jazz pianist and improviser, harmonically and melodically inventive with an elegant sense of swing, and a supremely gifted orchestral arranger. The popularity of this aspect of Alan's career has obscured to some extent his other musical abilities. All this has seen Alan become something of a legend amongst funk collectors.
Speed and Excitement (KPM 1076, 1970), Music for a Young Generation (KPM 1086, 1971), Move with the Times (KPM 1123, 1973) and Sounds of the Times (KPM 1170, 1975) feature the Hawkshaw brand of funk, with original vinyl issues continuing to sell for hefty sums. During this period, KPM and later Bruton Music, were the companies for which he wrote extensively but he also has writing credits within the libraries of companies including Amphonic, Music House, Cavendish Music, de Wolfe, Themes International (a company he coowned with drummer Barry Morgan and guitarist Alan Parker and latterly Noise Pump Music, now known as Atlas Production Music).įrom a funk perspective, many of the best and most collectable KPM LPs of the '60s and '70s are thanks to the presence of Alan's compositions. The hallmarks of Alan's Hammond style are the seething energy and sheer excitement he invests his playing with, helped in no small measure by his breathtaking virtuosity.Īlan Hawkshaw is the undisputed king of library music! Writing library music has been and continues to be, a large part of Alan's career and throughout the '60s and '70s it provided him with a major outlet for his own compositions. In the latter part of the '60s he developed a technique and sound on this instrument as personal and technically brilliant as the great American Hammond organists such as Jimmy Smith, Johnny Hammond and Richard 'Groove' Holmes.
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