Richard Russell
Richard Russell - clarinet
Phil Mead - pub piano
Dave "the Warrior" Moses - propa’ bass
John Webb - hyperactive saucepans

1. A Night In Tunisia (Gillespie) complete with shrill child selling postcards and warm sandpaper Chianti
2. Anthropology (Parker) check out the cat on the musical wardrobe
3. Cry Me A River (Hamilton) but please wipe your nose afterwards
4. Blue Monk (Monk) it’s Monk. it’s blue. the three-chord version
5.Our Love Is Here To Stay (Gershwin) our clarinet is here to stay vaguely in F
6.Milestones (Davis) you just get your toes warm and it’s time to go home

Recorded in about an hour down Olivier’s cellar on a wet Friday, August 2004.
Splendidly engineered and mastered by Andy.
Produced and directed (sic) by Richard.

Milestones - MP3 download - 12Mb
- not for the faint of modem.

a sleeve-note too long
some blurb about the one-take wonders CD
(and related musico-philosophical stuff).


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