** Beautifully packaged 180g vinyl. Gatefold sleeve with extensive liner notes by Duncan Heining. Strictly limited pressing run of 500 copies worldwide. ** Jazz In Britain presents Revisiting Tanglewood 63: The Early Tapes by Mike Gibbs, entirely recorded in two sessions, back in 1970. Brit-jazz composer and arranger Michael Gibbs was born in 1937 in Zimbabwe. Starting in 1959, he studied in Boston at the Berklee College of Music, the Boston Conservatory , Tanglewood and the Lenox School of Music, where he studied with a who's who of contemporary jazz and modern composition: George Russell, Gunther Schuller, Iannis Xenakis, Aaron Copland, Lukas Foss and others. In 1964 he moved to the UK, where he engaged himself in the rapidly emerging contemporary UK jazz scene. Starting in the late 60s and continuing into the mid 70s, he recorded a number of highly acclaimed and influential albums featuring many of the most prominent British-based jazz players who, like Michael, were beginning to flirt with jazz/rock.

racks 1, 4, 5, 7:
Henry Lowther, Harry Beckett - trumpet
Malcolm Griffiths, Mike Gibbs - trombone
Dick Hart - tuba
Tony Roberts, Stan Sulzmann, Jim Phillip - woodwind/reeds
Chris Spedding - guitar
Mick Pyne - piano
Roy Babbington - bass guitar
John Marshall - drums
Frank Ricotti - percussion

Tracks 2, 3, 6:
Nigel Carter, Henry Lowther, Harry Beckett - trumpet
Chris Pyne, Mike Gibbs - trombone
Dick Hart - tuba
Alan Skidmore, Tony Roberts, Stan Sulzmann - saxophone/flute
Chris Spedding - guitar
Mick Pyne - piano, organ
Roy Babbington - bass, bass guitar
Jeff Clyne - bass
John Marshall, Clive Thacker -