Le toccanti parole pronunciate da Richard Williams in omaggio a Mike Westbrook durante il funerale della scorsa settimana a Exeter sono ora riportate per intero al suo blog The Blue Moment: "I wouldn’t want to slight any other musician, from any era, when I say that Mike’s place as the pre-eminent composer and bandleader of British jazz is hard to dispute. As is his role in enabling jazz made outside America to establish its right to an independent existence. Most important of all, everything he did was based on a recognition that when a jazz group is working properly, it becomes a model for a decent society: a vehicle for individual expression in full and unselfish collaboration with others. How lucky we were to have him."
E un omaggio a Westbrook lo offrirà questa sera Chris Biscoe, amico e collaboratore in innumerevoli progetti nel corso di lunghi decenni, nonché uno dei suoi più fidi interpreti. In concerto a Stratford upon Avon (Regno Unito) in quintetto con Alcyona Mick, Mike Outram, Dave Whitford e Gary Willcox: Music Is - Chris Biscoe plays Mike Westbrook.
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