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Ballads

by Ken Stubbs Quartets

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1.
You Are Too Beautiful 07:12
2.
You Don't Know What Love Is 06:26
3.
Over the Rainbow 04:27
4.
But Beautiful 07:33
5.
Prelude in Bb 03:28
6.
Skylark 05:21
7.
That's All 07:31
8.
Someone to Watch Over Me 07:42
9.
I Got It Bad and That 'Aint Good 07:41
10.
I Thought About You 07:19

about

Ballads is the first solo studio album recorded by the British jazz saxophonist Ken Stubbs, released in 2000 by UK jazz label, Cherryk Records. The album features Ken Stubbs as leader and arranger. He plays alto saxophone throughout the recording and also plays the rarely heard basset horn on one arrangement. The album also features Gary Husband on drums, Mick Hutton on bass, Phil Robson on guitar and Paul Edmonds on piano. It was recorded during 1999 in Ladbroke Grove, London.

The album gained very favourable reviews internationally. Jazz commentator Lee Prosser states, " Ken Stubbs plays a mellow, sensitive alto saxophone, and he is one of the finest playing today! This is a 5-Star CD. Everything about BALLADS is classic contemporary jazz at its best."

Chris Lee commented on how..."London based alto-saxist Stubbs is on ravishing, intimate form in quartet settings of familiar standards, bringing an almost Websterish sensuality to highly personal, full toned interpretations. His lyricism verges on the Ellingtonian."

In Allaboutjazz, Jim Santella states that..." Stubbs says it beautifully through his horn", while Peter Bevan calls it..."Mood music of the highest kind"

This was the last recording made by Ken Stubbs before he emigrated to Australia in 2001, where he is now active on the Australian Jazz scene.

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released January 1, 2000

Ken Stubbs - Alto Saxophone, Bassett Horn
Mick Hutton - Bass
Gary Husband - Drums
Phil Robson - Guitar
Paul Edmonds - Piano

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Ken Stubbs formed his first jazz group – ‘First House’, with fellow ex music biz sufferers, Tube driver and Demon of the double bass, Mick Hutton, the marvellous, number-crunching drum genius, Martin France and the formidable composer and magician-keyboardist, Django Bates.

They where fortunate to record twice for ECM, with the Perfectionist-German-Sound Wizard, Manfred Eicher. ... more

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