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Tony Coe's Axel

What Say We Play Today?

Label: Jazz In Britain

Format: CD

Genre: Jazz

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€15.40
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Limited edition album by Tony Coe’s Axel featuring Tony, Gordon Beck, Phil Lee, Chris Laurence and Bryan Spring. Recorded during the Camden Jazz Festival at the Shaw Theatre in Euston, London in 1977. Featuring wonderful compositions from Tony, Phil Lee and Gordon Beck, who contributed the brilliant title track. The single CD comes in a 4-panel digisleeve, with a 20 page booklet containing notes from Dave Gelly, John Wickes, Chris Laurence and Chris Searle.

In 1975, Tony Coe formed a co-operatively run band, Axel, with guitarist Phil Lee, bassist Chris Laurence and drummer Bryan Spring. Pianist Gordon Beck joined Coe’s Axel, which performed at the Shaw Theatre as part of the 1977 Camden Jazz Festival in April - he would later be replaced by Bob Cornford - and the band performed to tremendous international acclaim at the Nice Festival, then undertook a tour of southern England in November. This album features the 1977 Camden performance. 

Details
Cat. number: JIB-68-S-CD
Year: 2025
Release notes:
edition of 500 1: Copyright Control 2: Paragon Preston Stevens Music Company Limited 3: Copyright Control 4: Jaguar Music Recorded at the Camden Festival, Shaw Theatre, London, March 1977 All the photos of Tony Coe are from Sue Stedman Jones' archive. The images of Gordon Beck, Chris Laurence, Phil Lee and Bryan Spring are all by unknown photographers. © + ℗ Jazz in Britain 2025 [on back cover] ℗ Jazz in Britain 2025 [on disc]
Tracklist
1Cela12:31
2Love Song (From The Zeitgeist Suite)16:07
3Your Dancing Toes15:06
4What Say We Play Today?27:58
Credits
Chris Laurence
Bass, Liner Notes [Interview With (English)]
Tony Coe
Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone
Bob Cornford
Collected By [Recordings Form The Bob Cornford Archives]
James Gault
Cover [Cover Designed By], Design [Cover Designed By]
Pete Woodman
Cover [Cover Designed By], Design [Cover Designed By], Design [Booklet And Sleeve Designed By], Sleeve [Sleeve Designed By]
Bryan Spring
Drums
Phil Lee
Guitar
Chris Searle
Liner Notes [Booklet And Liner Notes (English)]
Dave Gelly
Liner Notes [Booklet And Liner Notes (English)]
John Wickes
Liner Notes [Booklet And Liner Notes (English)]
John Thurlow
Liner Notes [English], Compiled By [Liner Notes Compiled By], Producer [Produced By]
Sue Stedman Jones
Photography By [All The Photos Of Tony Coe Are From Sue Stedman Jones' Archive]
Gordon Beck
Piano
Tony Rees
Transferred By [Recordings Transferred By]