Artist: Vortex Foundation Big Band

Date of Release: 01/01/2004

Catalogue no: BDV 2340

Label: Babel

Price: £12

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Annie Whitehead - Trombone/director Carol Grimes vocals // Josefina Cupido drums & percussion // Alison Rayner basses // Deirdre Cartwright guitar // Andrea Vicari piano & keys // Issie Barrat baritone sax // Angèle Veltmeijer tenor sax // Diane McLoughlin alto & soprano saxes // Barbara Snow trumpet & flugelhorn // Kay Charlton trumpet & flugelhorn // Gail Brand Trombone

"Much more than a right-on gesture, this is a new British big band with a future." John Fordham - The Guardian

Emerging in 2002 under the patronage of the Vortex Jazz Club in Stoke Newington, London, the all-female 11-piece contemporary Big Band was specially formed for the 2002 London Jazz Festival and is a showcase for jazz writers as well as players. Babel releases a live recording from March 2003 at the Vortex. It features varied material across the experience of many of the talented writers and performers in the band capturing a live feel-good vivacious spirit that crosses the borders of soul, contemporary big band jazz, latin fusion, funk, Soca, and African music.

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