Monday, May 20, 2013

Album: The Live New Departures Jazz Poetry Septet, Blues for the Hichhiking Dead

PHIL JOHNSON, SATURDAY 18 MAY 2013
Vinyl specialists Gearbox have done poet Michael Horovitz proud with this beautiful two-LP box-set of an epic live recording from 1962. English beats Horovitz and Pete Brown declaim verse to the often inspired – and very off the cuff – music of a band including Stan Tracey, Bobby Wellins and Jeff Clyne. A new LP and single of Horovitz with Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon and Paul Weller have already sold out but may reprint.

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/album-the-live-new-departures-jazz-poetry-septet-blues-for-the-hichhiking-dead-gearbox-8622220.html

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