Name: Blues For The Hitchhiking Dead
Brand: The Live New Departures Jazz Poetry Septet

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

gb1518

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Double 180 Gram Boxset.

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2018-02-23

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

The Orchard

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

5065001717130

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2 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

The Live New Departures Jazz Poetry Septet

Genre GB

Jazz

Label GB

Gearbox

Gearbox is a British independent label founded in 2009 by Darrel Sheinman. Based in London and Tokyo, Gearbox releases new music by contemporary artists as well as previously-unreleased archival recordings. They are well known for their jazz releases, including the "BBC Jazz For Moderns" series taken from jazz programmes on the BBC. The label also has a series called Japanese Editions featuring legendary performances at Ronnie Scott's jazz club in London.

In addition to their record releases, Gearbox operates a mastering studio located at Tileyard Studios in King's Cross, London. Equipped with vintage analog equipment, including a 1967 Haeco Scully lathe with Westrex amplifiers, they offer high-quality lacquer cutting and mastering services. The studio also provides direct-to-disc or tape recording using the adjacent recording studio.

For its own releases, Gearbox Records collaborates with Optimal Media GmbH. Known engineers associated with the label include Darrel Sheinman (Daz), Caspar Sutton-Jones (caspar@gearbox), Cicely Balston (2013-2016), Carla Iannace (since 2021 - carla@gearbox), and Kristina Rhodes (2021-2023). The studio is credited on releases as Gearbox Records Studio or Gearbox Recording.

This magical Double 180 Gram box set features a unique collaboration of some of the UK’s finest modern jazz musicians, including the likes of pianist Stan Tracey and saxophonist Bobby Wellins, together with poets Pete Brown (co-writer / Cream) and Michael Horovitz (Britain’s Beat Laureate). It features a live recording at Southampton University Campus of post-bop jazz, poetry, jazz poems and solo and exchange sound-poetry, as well as performances of the most ambitious work the Septet developed, Brown and Horovitz’s Blues For The Hitchhiking Dead. The events of that night were captured on a real-to-reel tape by the artist’s friend Victor Schonfield. The box set contains a deluxe full size booklet containing photos, reminiscences, essays and memorabilia.

Blues For The Hitchhiking Dead

Music GB