Leonard Salzedo, Geoffrey Grey, John Mayer

Featuring: London Percussion Ensemble

condition (record/cover): NM / EX- (lamination slighty peeling off) 

A document of the particular richness of British musical life in the early post-war decades, when the intersection of diverse immigrant and native musical traditions produced some of the most interesting work being made outside the metropolitan European avant-garde circuits. Leonard Salzedo (1921-2000), born in London to a Sephardic family, was a percussionist and composer of remarkable range; his Concerto pour Percussion takes the instrument's ensemble possibilities seriously in a way that the British orchestral tradition had rarely managed. John Mayer (1930-2004), born in Calcutta and trained at the Royal College, had developed in London what he called Indo-Jazz Fusion - an approach to combining the harmonic and rhythmic structures of Hindustani classical music with the improvisational practices of jazz and modern composition that produced something with no real parallel in the international new music scene. The third voice on this Philips LP, Geoffrey Grey, brings a further dimension to a gathering whose musical energies run across multiple traditions with equal conviction. Philips, 839.280 DSY.