Alan Skidmore A Supreme Love
2023 6x CD, Box Set
Contemporary Jazz
Modal
Free Improvisation
Afro-Cuban Jazz
Big Band
Fusion
Free Jazz

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Confront
design [designed by] Matthew Brandi
edited by, mastered by Rupert Clervaux
liner notes [english] Alan Skidmore
liner notes [english] Mark Wastell
liner notes [english] Richard Williams
tracks 6-3 to 6-5 mixed by Andrew Cleyndert
photography by [booklet page 17] Mike Raggett
photography by [box and booklet cover photo of alan skidmore (herts jazz festival, 2018) by] Graham Mullet
photography by [photo (disc 2 front cover)] Kenneth Cole Studios
photography by [photo (disc 3 front cover)] Bill Triance
photography by [photo (disc 4 front cover)] Yves Kol
photography by [photo (disc 6 front cover)] Dawid Laskowski
photography by [photos (disc 1 front cover; booklet page 14)] Jean Waldis
producer [produced by] Alan Skidmore
producer [produced by] Mark Wastell
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Phonographic Copyright (p) Confront Recordings
Recorded At Montreux Jazz Festival
Recorded At Casino de Montreux
Recorded At NDR-Jazz-Workshop
Recorded At Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin
Recorded At Deutsches Jazzfestival
Recorded At Kongresshalle, Frankfurt
Recorded At ORF Jazztime, Vienna
Recorded At Tony Levin's Music Room, Oxford Road, Birmingham
Recorded At Fabrik, Hamburg
Recorded At Norddeutscher Rundfunk
Recorded At Pendley Manor Jazz Festival
Recorded At CTS Studios
Recorded At Ronnie Scott's
Recorded At Radio Studio DRS
Recorded At 100 Club
Recorded At Cheltenham Jazz Festival
Recorded At NDR Studios
Recorded At Moers Festival
Recorded At Fleece Jazz Club, Suffolk
Recorded At European Jazz Jamboree, Berlin
Recorded At Kammermusiksaal der Berliner Philharmonie
Recorded At Cafe Oto
Clamshell box with 6 discs held in card sleeves

Limited edition // 500 copies

1-1, 1-2, 1-3: London, 1961.
1-4, 1-5: London, April/June 1965.
1-6: London, 1966.
1-7, 1-8: London, 29 August 1967.
1-9, 1-10, 1-11: Montreux Jazz Festival, Casino de Montreux, 19 June 1969.
1-12: London, 27 October 1969.
2-1: 73. NDR-Jazzworkshop, Funkausstellung, Berlin, September 3, 1971.
2-2: 13th Deutsches Jazzfestival, Kongresshalle, Frankfurt, 24 March 1972.
2-3: London, 27 January 1974
2-4: ORS Jazz Time, Vienna, 25 May 1976.
2-5: Tony Levin's Music Room, Oxford Road, Birmingham, 21 July 1977.
2-6: ony Levin's Music Room, Oxford Road, Birmingham, November 1977.
3-1: Fabrik, Hamburg, 19 October 1981.
3-2: Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Hannover, December 1989.
3-3: Pendley Jazz Festival, Tring, 6 July 1985.
3-4: Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Hannover, December 1989.
3-5: London, 26 October 1987.
3-6: CTS, Wembley, London 1989.
3-7: Ronnie Scott's, London 1988.
4-1: Radio Studio DRS (Studio 2), Zurich, 19 January 1980.
4-2, 4-3, 4-4: Mike Osborne Benefit Night at 100 Club, London, 39 April 1991.
4-5, 4-6: London, 1992.
4-7, 4-8: Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Cheltenham, 5 April 1997.
5-1, 5-2, 5-3: NDR Studio, Hamburg, 10 March 2000.
5-4: Moers-Festival, Moers, 13 May 2005.
5-5: London, January 2008.
5-6: Fleece Jazz Club, Suffolk, 2011.
5-7, 5-8: A European Jazz Jamboree, Kammermusiksaal der Berliner Philharmonie, Berlin, 19 September 2008.
6-1, 6-2, 6-3, 6-4, 6-5: Café Oto, London, 17 July 2019.

Disc 1: Photo: Alan Skidmore Quintet, soundcheck, Montreaux Jazz Festival, 19 June 1969 by [...].
Disc 2: Photo: Alan Skidmore Quintet, Finchley, London, 1973 by [...].
Disc 3: Photo: SOS, The Roundhouse, London, October 1974 by [...].
Disc 4: Photo: Elvin Jones & Alan Skidmore, MPS Studios, Villinghen, September 1978 by [...].
Disc 5: Photo: Alan Skidmore's Ubizu, Ronnie Scott's, London, 2003.
Disc 6: Photo: Alan Skidmore Quartet + Ed Jones & Howard Cottle, Café OTO, 17 July 2019 by [...].

All tracks previously unreleased, except:

Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting
Honesty
Alexis Korner Blues Incorporated
Sky High (Spot Records, 1966)

Nature Boy
I Remember Clifford
After the Rain
Alan Skidmore
After the Rain ([l46000], 2008)

Africa
Alan Skidmore's Ubizu
50 Journeys ([l104765], 2008)

Impressions
Jumpin' with Symphony Sid
Alan Skidmore Quartet
A Declaration of Love (ITM, 2015)

℗ Confront Recordings 2023
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