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Summer Fruits (and Unrest)

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Released
  
1993

Length
  
57:14

Artist
  
Django Bates

Label
  
JMT Records

Recorded
  
9-13 June 1993

Producer
  
Stefan F. Winter

Release date
  
1993

Genre
  
Jazz

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Summer Fruits (and Unrest) (1993)
  
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Summer Fruits (and Unrest) is an album led by composer, multi-instrumentalist and band leader Django Bates which was recorded in 1993 and released on the JMT label.

Contents

Reception

AllMusic awarded the album 3½ stars stating "hot full of breezy humor -- while also falling prey to the needless clutter so popular in fusion bands and jazz schools -- Summer Fruits will no doubt please fans who like their swing embedded in left field, yet logical dress".

Track listing

All compositions by Django Bates

  1. "Tight Rope" - 1:17
  2. "Armchair March" - 7:01
  3. "Food for Plankton (In Detail)" - 5:03
  4. "Säd Afrika" - 6:08
  5. "Three Architects Called Gabrielle: Just What I Expected" - 6:14
  6. "Queen of Puddings" - 8:19
  7. "Hyphen" - 5:32
  8. "Nights at the Circus" - 4:19
  9. "Discovering Metal" - 3:50
  10. "Little Petherick" - 6:30
  11. "March Hare Dance" - 3:02

Personnel

  • Django Bates - piano, keyboards, peck horn
  • Eddie Parker - flute, bass flute
  • Sarah Homer - clarinet, bass clarinet
  • Iain Ballamy, Steve Buckley - soprano saxophone, alto saxophone
  • Mark Lockheart, Barak Schmool - tenor saxophone
  • Julian Argüelles - baritone saxophone
  • Sid Gauld - high trumpet
  • Chris Batchelor - soloing trumpet
  • David Laurence - French horn
  • Roland Bates - trombone
  • Richard Henry - bass trombone
  • Sarah Waterhouse - tuba
  • Steve Watts - acoustic bass
  • Mike Mondesir - electric bass
  • Stuart Hall - electric guitar, violin, lap steel, banjo
  • Martin France - drums
  • Thebe Lipare - percussion

    • Songs

    1Tightrope1:18
    2Armchair March7:01
    3Food for Plankton (In Detail)5:04

    References

    Summer Fruits (and Unrest) Wikipedia
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