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Splinters: Inclusivity

Read "Inclusivity" reviewed by Chris May


Archive label Jazz In Britain comes up with another winner. Inclusivity is a 3 x CD collection of the complete performances of Splinters, an all-star 1972 septet comprising three hard boppers, two radical experimentalists and two in-betweeners. They were tenor saxophonist and flautist Tubby Hayes, alto saxophonist Trevor Watts, trumpeter and flugelhornist Kenny Wheeler, pianist Stan Tracey, bassist Jeff Clyne and drummers Phil Seamen and John Stevens. The band assembled for just two London gigs five months apart. It made ...

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Splinters: Split the Difference

Read "Split the Difference" reviewed by Andrey Henkin


One imagines that there must be literally thousands of sessions like this, live gigs by groups that only a small handful of people got to enjoy. The record industry being what it is, only the smallest percentage of musical interactions are documented and released. Reel Recordings, focusing its efforts on a particularly fruitful period in British jazz and progressive music, is trying to change that. Splinters is an illustrative name for this band. As was more common ...

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Reel Recordings Presents "Splinters" - Long Lost Britjazz Supersession

Reel Recordings Presents "Splinters" - Long Lost Britjazz Supersession

Source: All About Jazz

Reel Recordings is honored to present legendary British saxophonist Trevor Watts with his recording of the all-star collective SPLINTERS. Assembled by drummers John Stevens and Phil Seamen in 1972, SPLINTERS united Stevens and Seamen with tenor giant Tubby Hayes, altoist Trevor Watts, trumpeter Kenny Wheeler, pianist Stan Tracey, and bassist Jeff Clyne. Here is our first opportunity to experience this leaderless ensemble of British jazz greats, with their special musical personalities summoned to create group music with robust ...

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