The recordings capture moments which Digby has selected as highlights from his illustrious career taken from LPs and CDs

Cornetist Digby Fairweather has become one of the leading figures on the British jazz scene, both as a bandleader and sideman in other leader's bands, and as a writer and broadcaster, as well as being the founder and director of the charity Jazz Centre UK in Southend, aimed at promoting, preserving and celebrating the culture of jazz. This 33-track-2-CD collection is the fourth volume of a retrospective of his career to date, compiled by Digby himself, and with substantial booklet notes written by him. It comprises 'live' and studio recordings from across his career, and features performances with a host of the top names in British jazz as members of his various ensembles featured here - Digby Fairweather & Velvet, Digby Fairweather & Friends, Digby Fairweather's New Georgians, The Great British Jazz Band, Digby Fairweather's Half Dozen and We Three plus duo recordings with Stan Barker. Among the artists with whom Digby performs in this set are vocalists George Melly, Van Morrison, Jacqui Dankworth and Chris Ellis, plus Denny Wright, Ike Isaacs, Len Skeat, Pete Strange, Randolph Colville, Pete Skivington, Julian Marc Stringle, Bobby Worth, Dave Hackworth, Mick Foster and others. The recordings capture moments which Digby has selected as highlights from his illustrious career taken from LPs and CDs, many long out of print, from across the years. It's the fourth part of a musical overview of a significant career providing not only a showcase for his talents, but an entertaining insight into the British jazz scene across several decades.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

• It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing
• Body And Soul
• Cherokee
• All The Things You Are
• Sugar
• Sing
• I Found A New Baby
• New Orleans
• Lonesome Road
• Feelin' Like A Million
• E-Flat Blues
• Bojangles Of Harlem
• I Must See Annie Tonight
• Gone With The Wind
• You Turned The Tables On Me

Disc 2:

• Original Dixieland One-Step
• Prelude To A Kiss
• Twelve Feet Off The Ground
• Babe
• The Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gave To Me
• My Honey's Lovin' Arms
• Midnight Cannonball
• Kitchen Man
• Backwater Blues
• Let's Call The Whole Thing Off
• Winin' Boy Blues
• Roll 'Em Pete
• Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None Of My Jelly Roll
• Sweet Honey Will Be Gone
• Chinatown My Chinatown
• All Of me
• S'Wonderful
• The Sheik Of Araby

Additional Details

Label: Acrobat

Genre: Jazz

Run Time: 142 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 11/29/24

UPC: 824046352820