David Mitcham - Glorious Assembly (2026) [Hi-Res]

Glorious Assembly features many of the most outstanding jazz musicians in Britain, in fact a glorious assembly of them! In addition to saxes, trumpets, trombones and rhythm section the line-up features flute/alto flute/piccolo, a range of clarinets from Eb clarinet to contrabass clarinet, tuba, harmonicas and ukuleles.

David Mitcham has long harboured the feeling to create a large jazz ensemble to play his compositions. Glorious Assembly was brought together for the first time in 2025 at British Grove studios. David wanted to score his work for an extended big band to enable him to use the widest possible palette of sound textures in the music. In addition to the more usual trumpets, saxophones, trombones and rhythm section he adds woodwind from the high flute, piccolo and Eb clarinet to the low bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet and a tuba at the bottom of the brass section. In the rhythm section the guitarist doubles on electric guitar, spanish guitar and ukulele. In one piece the brass swap their instruments for echo harmonicas.