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Product: LP review: Golden Melodies
June 27, 2020
The National Brass Band
Conductor: Geoffrey Brand
Soloists: Jim Shepherd, Gordon Higginbottom, Derek Southcott, Ray Farr, Brian Evans
K-tel Records: ONE 1075
Product: CD review: Nigel Clarke — Mysteries of the Horizon
June 20, 2020
Grimethorpe Colliery Band
Conductors: Nigel Clarke, David Thornton, Sandy Smith
Soloist: Harmen Vanhoorne
Naxos Recordings: 8.574097
Product: Product review: Denis Wick mute corks
June 14, 2020
Mute corks for cornet to tuba
Denis Wick London
Prices: Vary
Product: LP review: Carnaval
June 11, 2020
Wynton Marsalis
Eastman Wind Ensemble
Conductor: Donald Hunsberger
CBS Records Masterworks
CB 331
Book: Brass Bands of the World: Militarism, Colonial Legacies, and local Music Making
June 10, 2020
Edited by: Suzel Ana Reily and Katherine Brucher
SOAS Musicology Series
Ashgate Publishing
Product: LP review: Alex Owen 60th Anniversary
May 27, 2020
Besses o' th' Barn Band
Conductors: Alec Evans & Roy Newsome
Soloists: Peter Read, Graham McEvoy, Andrew Snelson
Chandos Recordings: BBR 1009
Product: Product review: BG Trumpet Combo Pack
May 26, 2020
Trumpet Lead Pipe, Valve Casing and Mouthpiece Swabs
Price: £57.99
Product: CD review: The Jungle Book
May 21, 2020
Cory Band
Conductor: Philip Harper
Narration: Frank Renton
World of Sound Recordings: CD WOS156
Product: CD review: Heritage
May 15, 2020
Celebrating 150 Years of the Milnrow Band
Conductor: Dennis Hadfield
Featuring: David Morris
KMJ Recordings: MB001
Product: LP review: Grimethorpe Special
May 14, 2020
Grimethorpe Colliery Band
Conductor: Elgar Howarth
Featuring: Besses o' th' Barn Band
Narrator: Valerie Solti
Decca Records: HEAD14
Product: CD review: Preludes, Rags and Cakewalks
May 11, 2020
Debussy, Joplin and the influence of ragtime on French music
The Symphonic Brass of London
Conductor: Eric Crees
MPR Recordings: MPR005
Product: Product review: Denis Wick 4B cornet mouthpiece
May 10, 2020
The workhorse of the Denis Wick cornet range remains a gold plated thoroughbred...
Product: LP review: Brass in Perspective
May 8, 2020
The GUS (Footwear) Band
Conductor: Stanley Boddington
Soloist: David Jones
EMI Recordings: TWO 195
Product: CD review: Sapphire
April 26, 2020
Peter Steiner
Featuring: Constance Hochwartner (piano)
Berlin Classics
CD 0301298BC
Product: LP review: Life Divine
April 25, 2020
Black Dyke Mills Band (John Foster & Son PLC)
Conductors: Major Peter Parkes and Derek Broadbent
Chandos Digital: BBRD 1030
Product: Product review: FlowPartner
April 19, 2020
The best ideas are usually the simplest ones...
Product: CD review: The Birth of Time Echoes
April 18, 2020
Tim De Maeseneer
Featuring: Brass Band Willebroek
Conductor: Frans Violet
Recordings: CD Multidisc.be
Product: LP review: Tartan Brass
April 13, 2020
Our Scotland
Conductor: Robert McDowall
Featuring: Alan Morrison, Robert C McDowall, Gordon Campbell, John Stark, Christopher Bradley
Lismore Recordings: LILP 5152
Music: The Messanoic Method
April 11, 2020
A Conductor's Toolkit
Russell Gray
Publisher: Musikverlag frank publishing
Price: £90.00 approx from various outlets
Product: Instrument review: pCornet
April 7, 2020
Plastic fantastic: 4BR takes the opportunity in lockdown to have a closer look at the pCornet from Warwick Music Group.
