The London Jazz Orchestra Vortex Sessions: Coltrane's Africa / Brass

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The London Jazz Orchestra Vortex Sessions: Coltrane's Africa / Brass
The London Jazz Orchestra open their new season of live recorded concerts featuring Scott Stroman's reconstruction of John Coltrane’s 1961 project, Africa/Brass.

Africa/Brass was his first album for the new Impulse label, and Coltrane’s only large-ensemble album save for the late and highly improvised Ascension. Stroman has created a new and original suite from the album including the groundbreaking piece Africa, plus a new jazz orchestra version of Naima, recorded the same year by Coltrane's quartet.

The LJO comprises top London jazz soloists and composers including Alec Dankworth, bass; Paul Clarvis, drums, Pete Saberton, piano, Phil Lee, guitar, Henry Lowther and Noel Langley, trumpets, and Martin Speake and Josephine Davies, saxophones, and Pete Beachill, trombone.

Directed by Scott Stroman, it has had a monthly residency, first at the old Vortex and now at the new, since 1991.