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Glad Day: Settings of William Blake | 
| Artist: Mike Westbrook
Label: Enja
Category: Music
List Price: £15.99
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Sales Rank: 19867
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 063757937623
EAN: 0063757937623
ASIN: B0000257Q6
Release Date: June 7, 1999
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| Tracks:
| • | Glad Day | | • | London Song | | • | Let The Slave | | • | Lullaby | | • | Song Of Spring | | • | Holy Thursday | | • | Tyger And The Lamb | | • | Poison Tree | | • | Long John Brown And Little Mary Bell | | • | Human Abstract | | • | Fields | | • | I See Thy Form |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
This extraordinary double album is the distillation of a 30-year association between the music of Mike Westbrook--possibly the most profound jazz composer Britain has ever produced, although his terms of reference are far wider than the term "jazz" will reasonably admit--and the poetry of the English mystic William Blake, whose career straddled the 18th and 19th centuries and whose insights into the human condition were to crucially inform Westbrook's own thinking. During this period, Westbrook has written original settings for Tyger, Adrian Mitchell's musical about Blake, recorded an assortment of individual pieces on various albums and released a single album based on Blake's writings. With many of these earlier efforts reworked and with new material added, Glad Day features Westbrook's favoured group format, his "Brass Band"--a somewhat loose term for this middling-to-large group which also includes saxophones and voices and which is in this instance augmented by a quartet of guitarists and a superb girls' school choir. Westbrook has been compared to Ellington, but given his skill in handling material of specifically literary origins and his ability to marry verse to music, this "jazz record" is also a song-cycle of the highest artistic calibre. --Roger Thomas
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