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The Alan Skidmore Quintet Once Upon A Time.... mp3, flac, wma DOWNLOAD LINKS (Clickable) Genre: Jazz Album: Once Upon A Time.... Country: UK Released: 1970 MP3 version RAR size: 1113 mb FLAC version RAR size: 1898 mb WMA version RAR size: 1480 mb Rating: 4.9 Votes: 613 Other Formats: MPC DMF VOC AU AA FLAC DXD Tracklist Hide Credits Once Upon A Time A1 Written-By – Surman* Majaera A2 Written-By – Oxley* The Yolk A3 Written-By – Taylor* Old San Juan B1 Written-By – Warren* Free For Al B2 Written-By – Surman* Image B3 Written-By – Surman* Companies, etc. Printed By – Clout & Baker Ltd. Credits Bass – Harry Miller Design [Cover] – Roi Castle Drums – Tony Oxley Engineer – Bill Price, David Grinsted* Flugelhorn – Kenny Wheeler Liner Notes – Roger Eames Piano – John Taylor Producer – Peter Eden Tenor Saxophone – Alan Skidmore Notes The back cover shows an "indicator hole" to let the inner sleeve peep through: blue = stereo, red = mono. Cover: Deram Nova Label: Decca Nova Other versions Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year The Alan Once Upon A CDSML 8406 Skidmore Time.... (CD, Album, Vocalion CDSML 8406 UK 2005 Quintet RE, RM) The Alan Once Upon A Deram, SDN 11 Skidmore SDN 11 UK 1970 Time.... (LP, Album) Decca Quintet The Alan Once Upon A DL 3004 Skidmore Deram DL 3004 Japan 1970 Time.... (LP, Album) Quintet The Alan Once Upon A UCCM-9256, Deram, UCCM-9256, Skidmore Time.... (CD, Album, Japan 2008 SDN 11 Deram SDN 11 Quintet RE, RM, Pap) Comments about Once Upon A Time.... - The Alan Skidmore Quintet Vutaur Just what you'd expect from the musicians involved (quite a stellar all-star British jazz cast of talent in fact), this is at the not quite free-jazz end of Ian Carr's Nucleus type sound, vaguely Canterbury- esque in its textures and mood, but lacking the rock edge that would have made it interesting for me. Was one of the few Nova Series releases I hadn't heard until very recently. Related Music albums to Once Upon A Time.... by The Alan Skidmore Quintet 1. The Ronnie Scott Quintet Featuring Alan Skidmore - BBC Jazz Club 2. Jazz Live Trio With Kenny Wheeler, Alan Skidmore - Jazz Live Trio With Guests 3. Anouar Brahem / John Surman / Dave Holland - Thimar 4. Alan Skidmore's Ubizo - Ubizo 5. Georgie Fame, Uschi Brüning, Alan Skidmore Quartet, Alan Skidmore, Geoff Gascoyne, Steve Melling, Ian Palmer - A Declaration of Love 6. John Surman / Jack DeJohnette - Invisible Nature 7. John Surman - John Surman 8. Alan Skidmore's Ubizo - 50 Journeys 9. Alan Skidmore, Tony Oxley, Ali Haurand : S.O.H. - S.O.H. 10. The Trio - Conflagration.

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