Loose Tubes

  • Trumpet: Chris Batchelor, David Defries, John Eacott, Lance Kelly
  • Tenor saxophone Julian Argüelles, Tim Whitehead, Mark Lockheart
  • Alto Saxophone: Iain Ballamy, Steve Buckley
  • Soprano Saxophone: Iain Ballamy, Steve Buckley, Mark Lockheart
  • Flute: Eddie Parker
  • Clarinet: Dai Pritchard
  • Guitar: John Parricelli
  • Drums: Steve Argüelles, Nic France
  • Percussion: Steve Argüelles, Thebe Lipere
  • Keyboards: Django Bates
  • Bass: Steve Berry
  • Tuba: Dave Powell

Loose Tubes was a British big band of the 1980s.

History

Loose Tubes was a created as a musician cooperative 21köpfige Big Band, which was active in the 1980s. Originally planned as a sample tape, it was put together in 1983 by Graham Collier and was in London in 1984 their first appearance; In 1985 the first album. Loose Tubes, and its members were soon celebrated in numerous articles in the British press for her fun and exuberant style, as in The Guardian and The Times; eventually was voted the best British band of 1989 Loose Tubes from the magazine The Wire. Ian Carr called Loose Tubes as one of the most original larger ensembles of the 1980s; the classic big band line-up was here framed by tuba, bass clarinet, flute and percussion. Style characteristic of the formation was the mix of jazz with elements of rock, Samba, Ghanaian highlife and other ethnic music.

The trombonist Ashley Slater (who later played in the rock band Freak Power ) has served as moderator of the band. The compositions were mainly written by keyboardist Django Bates and bassist Steve Berry. Besides the two walked out of the formation later known musicians of the British jazz scene shows how the brothers Julian and Steve Arguelles, Iain Ballamy, David Defries, Mark Lockheart, Eddie Parker and Tim Whitehead. In 1987, Loose Tubes, the first jazz orchestra, which was allowed to perform on the BBC show, The Classical Proms, the annual summer Proms at the Royal Albert Hall. Legendary was her guest appearance in the jazz club Ronnie Scott's, as they three clock in the morning playing at the end of her performance went through the streets of Soho and the crowd followed them.

In 1987 she appeared at the Berlin forest stage; Teo Macero produced in 1988 their third album, Open Letter, the EC at Records appeared. 1990 Loose Tubes disbanded; the reasons were the one in the then economic crisis in the UK, the other in the permanent difficulty to conduct the big band collectively. In the course of its existence also Martin France, Oren Marshall, Mark Mondesir, Martin Speake and Huw Warren worked with the ensemble.

Loose Tubes had even after the dissolution great influence on younger musicians in the British scene; so looking at the F -IRE Collective Barak Schmool Loose Tubes as a model. 1991 formed Django Bates with former teammates, the broad ensemble Delightful Precipice. From Loose Tubes as the duo Human Chain ( Bates and Steve Argüelles ), the quartet The Lains by Iain Ballamy and a quintet by Tim Whitehead went forth, among other things formations.

Discography

  • Loose Tubes (1985 )
  • Delightful Precipice (1986 )
  • Jazzbühne Berlin 87 (Rep, 1987)
  • Open Letter ( Editions EG, 1988, produced by Teo Macero )
  • Säd Africa (Lost Marble, 1990 ed 2012)
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