McNair's 1970 LP, 'The Fence', has always been a much sought after rarity amongst collectors. Now digitally re-mastered, this reissue features liner notes and period photographs by Val Wilmer. (Hux Records) 


Price:  £12.99 

This album of Taylor’s surviving orchestral music, jazz tunes and songs serves both as a memorial to him and to preserve his work as a composer and song writer for posterity. It presents the full set list, re-mastered from Neil Ardley’s original tapes, and includes a generous 20-page booklet with extensive booklet notes on Taylor and the album’s recording by Dave Gelly, complemented by previously-unseen photography. (Proper Music) 


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The music is typical of Garrick - by turns lyrical, angular, introverted, extroverted, swinging, pensive but always interesting and original. The album is devoted to Garrick’s original compositions with the exception of his semi-free reworking of the Gershwin classic I’ve Got Rhythm. Here the group pares down to a trio - with Dave Green (bass) replacing Coleridge Goode - to produce a startling reworking of this jazz standard. Garrick’s love of literature is never too far away from his music, and this album is no exception. The closing track, Song by the Sea, takes both its name and inspiration from a poem by Laurie Lee, one of Garrick’s collaborators in the classic 1964 Argo LP ‘Poetry and Jazz in Concert’ (reissued on Vocalion 2CDSML 8416). There are plenty of moments throughout for the individual talents of the Sextet to shine, such as Tony Coe’s superb clarinet solo in Leprechaun Leap, originally written by Garrick as a vehicle for Irish-ancestored tenor saxophonist Dick Morrisey. Promises – a remarkable album by a remarkable musician. (Dutton Vocalion) 


Price:  £9.99