The New Noakes Internationals Blue In Black And White
33 Records: 33JAZZ069
running time: 54:44
Following a five-year hiatus, I reformed a very new version of my New Noakes group. This came about - as many musical collaborations seem to do - by chance: I had booked Etienne Brachet (long time Parisian drummer with the New Noakes Quartet) to play a one-off gig at The Spin and decided to hire a keyboard player to recreate our old familiar format. I called Dave Gordon for this date and together with bassist Raph Mizraki we rehearsed some old New Noakes material. I quickly realised that the tunes sounded incredibly fresh again and we all felt that this was ‘a band’. Inspired by this new sound, I wrote a lot of new material and invited the other band members to contribute pieces. We toured the UK a couple of times and then decided to record an album, adding the powerhouse tenor saxophonist Butch Thomas and so the new quintet was established.
Pete Oxley acoustic, electric, synth guitars
Dave Gordon piano, keyboards
Butch Thomas tenor, soprano sax*
Raph Mizraki acoustic, electric basses
Etienne Brachet drums
Recorded, mixed and mastered at Clowns Pocket Studio in February and May 2001 by Derek Nash
