Bitches Blues IARC100LP A hand-picked ensemble featuring some

A hand-picked ensemble featuring some of Manchester’s finest young musicians

These recordings were revolutionary in many aspects: Syliphone was the first recording label to feature traditional African instruments within an orchestre setting

Of special interest are the tracks on which Zoot Sims plays soprano sax

rooted in black music and jazz also has some experimental leanings

and a propensity for strung out nonsense syllables gave Eek a decidedly non-Jamaican sound

Bitches Blues IARC100LP A hand-picked ensemble featuring someHedvig Mollestad Thomassen guitar. Stle Storlkken organ and synth. Ole Mofjell drums. Weejuns is all about interplay, explains Mollestad, a former Young Jazz Talent of the Year and Artist in Residence in her native Norway. Bitches Blues consists of six instrumental tracks, or stretches of music, with an extreme range of dynamics. Some are based around hefty beats, while other tracks are far more lyrical and rubato. It ranges from riff based rock ish