Django Bates - Quiet Nights (1997)

Tracklist

01. Speak Low
02. Teach Me Tonight
03. And the Mermaid Laughed
04. Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars
05. Hi Lili Hi Lo
06. Solitude
07. Like Someone in Love
08. Is There Anyone Up There
09. Over the Rainbow

Quiet Nights, Django Bates' latest project, was created in Copenhagen in March 1997 as part of Django's 1997 Jazzpar Prize concert series. It is an unusually calm and contemplative group which interprets songs like Speak Low, Over the Rainbow and Quiet Nights, in a fresh way. The group is formed of Django's regular quartet Human Chain with Django on keyboards/Eb horn, Iain Ballamy on saxophones, Michael Mondesir on electric bass, Martin France on percussion and featuring young Swedish singer Josephine Crønholm. Since the Jazzpar Prize, Quiet Nights has performed at the Køln Musik Triennale in Germany, the Jazz Encounters Festival at the Wigmore Hall in London and at the Harrogate International Festival. This is a side of Django rarely heard; soft, intricate, reflective and intensely peaceful.

Keyboards, Horn [Peck] – Django Bates
Bass Guitar – Michael Mondesir
Drums [Wooden & Electric], Percussion – Martin France
Saxophone, Bass Harmonica, Saxophone [Lipo-sax] – Iain Ballamy
Voice, Bells [Tibetan Bell] – Josefine Crønholm

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