Keith Tippett Tapestry Orchestra - Live At Le Mans (2007)

Tracklist

CD1
01. First Thread
02. Second Thread
03. Third Thread
04. Fourth Thread

CD2
01. Fifth Thread
02. Sixth Thread
03. Seventh Thread

First Weaving is from the 1998 Le Mans Jazz Festival; a gigantic session which became an underground classic despite never being commercially available. Originally commissioned by the BBC it stayed under wraps because the intention was to produce a studio recording for which the funding never materialised. Although acknowledged as one of the great founding fathers of Post Modern British ‘jazz’, Keith Tippett is a mysterious figure, always on the edge of contemporary music. Today he is probably best known for his solo explorations in spontaneous composition, an irony given his history in collective music making, (i.e. Centipede, Ark, Mujician and the Georgian Ensemble etc.)