Collectable Cassettes
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The Cassette Collection
Aural paperbacks with a hardback feel.
All cassettes are real time transfers
onto chrome tape, come with hand stamped labels and a complimentary b/w
inlay card with a concise explanatory note and free cut out and keep VOTP
Personality Parade portrait.
Made between 1990-93 as 'aural calling card'
propaganda, they were released in batches of two or three. Ideal for pre
'CD as standard' In Car entertainment!
Uncommerciality
Especially composed 'easy listening'
chocolate bar packaged 'samplers'. Beginners start here!
Uncommerciality Vol.1
Milk chocolate selection with easy
listening centres. Features saxophonist Iain Ballamy, clarinettist Dai
Pritchard & drummer Roy Dodds. Same recording as on the vinyl (ALLMUSIC
ALMS 2).
Uncommerciality Vol.2
A Dark Chocolate music selection with
mysterious centres. Features Ballamy, Pritchard, Ashley Slater on bass
trombone and Charlie Hart on bass.
Uncommerciality Vol.3
Plain chocolate music selection with
vibrant aftertaste. Features alto saxophonist Mark Ramsden, bassist Winston
Blissett and drummer Martin France.
'The perfect antidote to the retrogressive
winebar-friendly jazz in vogue in mid-1980's Britain' Penguin Rough
Guide To Jazz
'Ken Worpole is currently listening
to "Uncommerciality Vols 1 - 3" by Billy Jenkins and the Voice of God Collective'.
New Statesman
Live
Wiesen '87
Eight go mad, invade Austria and everybody
wins! Featuring Ashley 'Freakpower' Slater, Perfect Houseplant saxophonist
Mark Lockheart, percussionist Dawson Miller and double bassist Steve Berry.
Jazz Café Concerts Vol. 1
BJ - electric guitar with
Iain Ballamy - saxophone
Steve Watts - double bass
Roy 'Fairground Attraction' Dodds
- midget drumkit
Jazz Café Concerts Vol. 2
more madness as per Vol. 1
'Chaos theory put into practise by
the guitarist who takes no prisoners.' Guardian Guide
'Jenkins combines musical wizardry
with biting satire, offensive noise, singalong ditties and a rude finger
to you, you po-faced jazzbore' Rupert Loydell/Event
Standards
In The Nude Vol.1
Solo nylon guitar jazz standards. It
took 19 years of guitar studies before BJ dared to record himself 'in the
nude'.
Round Midnight Cowboy Vol.2
BJ continues in nylon strung acoustic
mode, joined by Dai Pritchard on clarinets, trumpet and saxophone.
Blue Moon In A Function Room Vol.3
Released on CD (Babel BDV 9402) under
drummer Steve Arguelles name, BJ plays electric wah wah guitar to Stuart
Hall's violin and guitar and Steve Watt's double bass. Contains slight
track variations from CD.
'Billy's ideal is Tin Pan Alley muzak
mispronounced, forever.' Mark Sinker/Wire
'The numbers are conventional, yet
they don't really sound like anything I've ever heard before! Incredibly
stupid and hugely enjoyable!' Cliff Douse/Guitar Techniques
Steve Noble Improvising Trios
!Tumba La Casa! Vol.1
Improvising drum king Steve Noble introduces
BJ to tuba virtuoso Oren Marshall.
Tumble Shakedown Vol.2
Noble and BJ meet Italian double bass
master Roberto Bellatalla.
'...cutting satirical swathes through
everything from post-bop harmony to rock and roll to the clichés
of 'free' music.' Penguin Guide To Jazz On Record (2nd Ed.)
'His trademark is structured mayhem,
avoiding the obvious dangers of descending into mere pastiche and whimsy
through his real love for and mastery of the musical forms he plunders
- be it heavy guitar rock, free improvisation or oompah jazz.' Vanessa
Bridge/Yorkshire Evening Post
Big Fights
12 x 3 minute rounds of improvisation.
BJ takes on three top percussionists, referee and time keeping by Billy's
producer Tony Messenger. Who will win!?
BJ v. Steve Arguelles Vol.1
BJ v. Steve Noble Vol.2
BJ v. Thebe Lipere Vol.3
'It's all done in strict Queensbury
spirit, and nobody gets hurt, least of all the music. Strongly recommended
for all those who sat at improv gigs wondering when/if they're going to
stop.' Penguin Guide To Jazz on Record (2nd Ed.)
'And if things get serious, there's
always buckets of uproarious noise generated by the guitar of Billy Jenkins.'
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