LOUIS STEWART – Joyce Notes – CD [MAR 27]

Description

CD – Now mastered for the first time, JOYCE NOTES comes with a detailed 16-page booklet, containing sleeves notes from noted journalist PhilipWatson, and several original performance photographs.

JOYCE NOTES is the recording of Irish guitarist Louis Stewarts six-part suite based on
scenes from James Joyces groundbreaking novel, Ulysses, performed at the Cork
Jazz Festival in 1982 by an Irish-American octet with readings from Dublin-born actor
Eamon Morrissey.

Though not renowned as a composer, in JOYCE NOTES Stewart produced anartistically bold and adventurous work, merging jazz composition with modernliterature. Both he and Livia Records founder, Gerald Davis were Joyce enthusiastsand conceived the suite to coincide with the centenary of Joyces birth in 1982.

Now mastered for the first time, JOYCE NOTES comes with a detailed 16-page booklet, containing sleeves notes from noted journalist PhilipWatson, and several original performance photographs.

Following its Cork premiere JOYCE NOTES was performed just twice more, in the
1990s, once in Oslo with a local band and Norwegian text, and once in Dublin.

Tracklist:

1. Bronze by Gold [07:02]
2. Gerty McDowell [08:16]
3. Nighttown [09:07]
4. Stephen [10:31]
5. W.B.Murphy [12:05]
6. Molly [15:12]

Credits:

All Compositions: Louis Stewart Text: James Joyce
Text Selection: Gerald Davis

Performers:

Guitar: Louis Stewart, Voice: Eamonn Morrissey, Piano: Jim Doherty
Flute: Brian Dunning, Tenor Saxophone: Richie Buckley
Alto Saxophone: Len McCarthy, Bass: Steve LaSpina
Drums: Bobby Rosengarden, Percussion: Peter Ainscough
Recording by RTE Television used by permission.
Mastering: San Mac Erlaine
Sleeve Notes: Philip Watson Design: Jon Berkeley
Executive Producer: Dermot Rogers