Starting Fires: Live at The 100 Club, 1970, by Mike Osborne

Mike Osborne - Parallel (excerpt)

Starting Fires: Live at The 100 Club, 1970

by Mike Osborne

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'...wild and free and very, very beautiful.' ★★★★ MOJO magazine

'Starting Fires is a very appropriate title for an album containing 40 minutes of music that never lacks light and shade but is driven by its unwavering sense of purpose.' Richard Williams - thebluemoment.com

A sensational, previously unheard session by legendary British free jazz saxophonist Mike Osborne, recorded in February 1970 at London's famous 100 Club. From Osborne's personal tape collection. Features two compositions currently thought to be unrecorded in any other setting.

Lineup:
Mike Osborne - alto sax
Alan Skidmore - tenor sax
Harry Miller - double bass
Louis Moholo - drums

Original mastering by Mike King. Additional mastering by Matt Parker for British Progressive Jazz in association with Improjazz.
Photographs courtesy of Riccardo Bergerone.
Artwork & design by Matt Parker.

Very special thanks to: Alan Skidmore, Philippe Renaud, Riccardo Bergerone, Mark Wastell, Fabio Loli, Pat Thomas, Zil Bareisis, Matt Leivers, Kirk Annett, Nigel Atkinson, Simon Keslake, Kelly N. Wiggin, Wayne Duncan, Andrew Naylor. Arno Kolster, Richard Hammond, Wang Xj, Robert Mallett, Mark Huggett, Collin Markum, Stuart Ansell.

Dedicated to the memory of Mike King.

This remaster © 2023 British Progressive Jazz in association with Improjazz.

All tracks composed by Mike Osborne ℗ 1970.

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released August 4, 2023

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