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These thirty tracks from Bill Le Sage’s Directions in Jazz Unit from 1963-1964 reveal that British jazz had long been developing its own authentic voices, even if many of those voices have been hidden from history until recently. As well as the woodwinds of Ronnie Ross, Bob Burns and Johnny Scott, Le Sage himself on piano and vibes, Spike Heatley on bass and Tony Carr on drums, the group included the novel addition of a cello quartet, led by Freddie Alexander.
Tracklist
Disc: 1
1 Night Talk
2 Monkey Business
3 Caber Dance
4 Lady Day
5 Wigmore Walk
6 Honky Tonk
7 Morning Theories
8 Yardsticks
9 Blue Trident
10 Times Two-and-a-half
11 Come Rain Or Come Shine
12 So What
13 Pastorale D'hiver
14 Where's the Fire?
15 Rustic Gait
Disc: 2
1 Night Talk
2 It Don't Mean a Thing
3 Times Two-and-a-half
4 Come Rain Or Come Shine
5 Progressive Gavotte
6 Rustic Gait
7 Times Two-and-a-half
8 Night Talk
9 New Orleans
10 Improvisation On a Twelve Tone Scale
11 Milestones
12 Interview
13 Honky Tonk
14 Three
15 Clarion
16 Minky