painting by Kate Westbrook
Chris Biscoe
©2024 - All text, images and sound samples on this site remain the property of the original owners and cannot be copied or reproduced without permission.
ChrisBiscoe.co.uk
Chris Biscoe
Before & After CD Cover
The Harry Beckett Quintet

Harry Beckett: trumpet, flugelhorn
Chris Biscoe: alto, soprano saxes
Alastair Gavin: piano
Fred T. Baker: bass guitar
Tony Marsh: drums
"These musicians have been performing my compositions live, and on record, for many years now and every gig and recording session brings a new and exhilarating interpretaion to the music they are so familiar with. This unique CD is the first chance to experience on record the creativity and excitement generated on stage."
Harry Beckett
Reviews of "Before and After":
HARRY BECKETT QUINTET Before and After (Jazzprint JPVP017 CD)
Harry Beckett has been a valued part of the British jazz scene for so long that, when he took a year out to play with the French National Jazz Orchestra recently, people were asking each other what had upset him to make him do such a thing. This set by his band, recorded live in 1999, catches him in characteristically good form. His trumpet style is a unique mixture of meltingly warm tone and angular phrasing, and he writes wonderfully playable tunes, themes which just beg to be opened up and explored. Saxophonist Chris Biscoe, with his gentle unpredictability, makes an ideal partner.
The Observer, 5 August 2001
HARRY BECKETT QUINTET Before and After (Jazzprint JPVP017 CD)
Beckett's live album sounds confident and happy, with six positive themes and chord sequences such as Conditions and Tinseltown, all written by the leader. Beckett seems to express joy as a complex, convoluted thing, the absolute opposite of a scream of pain, and this makes him a great foil to all kinds of players.

Chris Biscoe, on alto and soprano saxes, is a wonderful, abrasive soloist, and it is nice to hear bass guitarist Fred T Baker in a hard-blowing context like this - walking fast on the title track and generating his own spin on a kind of Caribbean funk for Then as Now. The performances on Before and After have several rough edges, and a few moments where the rhythm section doesn't quite gel, but it is an honest, likeable, and - I suspect - a durable album, and it swings.
John L Walters
Guardian
Friday August 17, 2001
1. Conditions
2. Tinseltown
3. Another Time
4. Forgive 'N' Forget
5. Then As Now
6. Before And After
Come and join
Chris Biscoe
on
Chris Biscoe on Facebook
Click on the covers
for more information and
sound samples
Then and Now
Then and Now
Two Of A Mind
Buy from CD Page
Chris Biscoe Quartet - Live at Campus West
Live At Campus West
Chris Biscoe
Profiles Quartet
Buy CD & download from
Bandcamp
TO BOOK CHRIS BISCOE GO TO THE BAND PAGE YOU ARE INTERESTED IN FOR CONTACT DETAILS


Profiles of Mingus
Profiles of Mingus
Chris Biscoe
Buy download from
Bandcamp

wobbly rail five

Buy download from Bandcamp 

Music Is - Chris Biscoe Plays Mike Westbrook
buy from CD Page
Gone In The Air
Chris Biscoe Quartet
Buy download from
Bandcamp
Gone In The Air

Before & After
Chris Biscoe