Neil Swainson - Fire In The West Format:CD K427 - the 'Great Mass'

K427 - the 'Great Mass'

and experimental music

while bassist Wayne Arthur and drummer Jimmy 'Sticks' Denton laid down a mighty commotion behind the pair

And through the suggestions

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Neil Swainson - Fire In The West Format:CD K427 - the 'Great Mass'A long time fan of the front line pairings of the 1950s bands of Miles Davis, Art Blakey and Horace Silver (for whom "Silver Mine" is dedicated), Swainson shaped both his compositions and the blue chip rhythm section of pianist Renee Rosnes (with whom he'd worked in the 1990s cross border band Free Trade) and Lewis Nash around this stylistic post bop conception. With compositional dedications to musical influences (the aforementioned "Silver Mine"),