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First and Last
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Drum Fire
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Original LP released in 1975

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Lunar Adventures
The Future is Now
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NOW You Hear It
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Gravity Boots
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New Orchestra Quintet: First and Last
Double CD NOR 012


        The New Orchestra Quintet was together from 1977 to 1980. In that time they began a new era of improvised jazz
         in Vancouver. Their first LP, Up ‘Til NOW,
from 1979, got stellar reviews in Canada and internationally and
        was reissued
as a double CD on New Orchestra Recordings in 2004.
   
        Excerpts from review of Up ‘Til Now by the New Orchestra Quintet from Cadence Magazine, March 2005

        Paul Cram, reeds; Ralph Eppel, trombone; Paul Plimley, piano; Lisle Ellis, bass; Gregg Simpson, drums
        may not have generated much buzz during their late ‘70’s heyday, but their first two-disc reissue of their LP Up Til Now,
        contains almost a disc and a half of unreleased material from contemporaneous sessions, demonstrates that there was
        some heavy playing going on up North. While the names might not be the marquee type (though several are members of
        the NOW Orchestra, for example), the soloists consistently emit sparks.
 
        The group ethos, a focus on strategic group maneuvers with a tension between inside/outside leanings that can threaten
        to blow at any moment is what keeps one listening. They can swing hard yet, the abstract notions are an important part
        of the group sound as well displaying that even while venturing into more conceptual territories, there is a degree of
        listening going on here.”

$20.00 (US) plus $5.00 postage
Also available from Neptoon Records, 3561 Main Street, Vancouver

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Featuring: Lunar Adventures, Paul Cram Trio, Tribal Dynamics
Condition West 003

promises a tantalizingly odd hybrid of sounds and that’s just what it is"

"This is a mix of seemingly incongruous elements that comes out as insanely inspired fun.
I
think the inventor of harmolodics, Ornette Coleman, would definitely approve."

-Jerome Wilson, Cadence Magazine, June 2005

$15.00 (US) plus $5.00 postage
Also available from Neptoon Records, 3561 Main Street, Vancouver

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Sunship Jazz Ensemble


Blue Minor Records 121 2004A
Includes booklet insert

    The Sunship Ensemble, which formed in 1974, was a group in tune with its times. The incorporation of world music, drawn from many cultures, was evident
    in many celebrated jazz groups of the early 1970s. Their music reflected the Afro-Latin influences of the times, but Sunship Ensemble incorporated even
    more extended free form improvisations than most other fusion groups of the time. Although international in outlook, the group played a regionally-based
    music, influenced by the west coast, rainforest environment.

Ross Barrett (tenor sax, flute, keyboard) Bruce Freedman (tenor sax) Richard Anstey (soprano sax)
Alan Sharpe (guitar) Clyde Reed (bass) Gregg Simpson (drums)

Compositions

1. Mesopotamia 2. Atlantis Rising 3. Inca 4. Great Wall of China 5. African Village
6. Green Apple Quickstep 7. Birds of a Feather 8. Stop Stop 9. Nest of the Wounded Crow

     Some of the material for this CD was previously released on a 1975 CBC Transcription Recording, entitled Pacific Rim, produced by George Laverock,
     including several originals by Alan Sharpe and one piece entitled Great Wall of China, written by the Montreal-born pianist, Rick Kitaeff whose group in
     Japan at the time, Electric Ninja, shared the CBC album with the Sunship Ensemble. To reflect the Pacific Rim theme, the groups each did a composition
     by their counterpart across the Pacific
Recorded: #1-8: 1975, #9: 1971
#1- 4 CBC Studio 'A',Vancouver, #5-9: various studios in Vancouver.

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Also available from Neptoon Records, 3561 Main Street, Vancouver
Includes an illustrated booklet

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New Orchestra Quintet

UP' TIL NOW 
Double CD including selections from the original LP


            Paul Cram - woodwinds / Ralph Eppel - brass / Paul Plimley - piano
    Lisle Ellis - bass /Gregg Simpson - drums

New Orchestra Recordings 010 (Double CD)
(Cover art by Gregg Simpson)
Recorded in Vancouver: November, 1977 and May, 1978.

Release date: July 20, 2004
  $20.00(US)  plus $5.00 for mailing
Disk One:
1.Public Nuance (Simpson) 13:15
2.Ba Doo Da (NOQ) 18:44
3.Giant Steps Out (Coltrane) 17:22
4.Blues on Pluto (Simpson) 14:43
5.Even Daylight (Plimley) 8:42

        Disk Two:
1.10 x 10 (Ellis) 10:42*
2.Up ‘Til Now (NOQ) 13:02*
3.Terminal Shift (Eppel) 11:03*
4.Delicate Chestnut Roll (Plimley) 15:27*
5.Systematics (Ellis) 6:56
6.Free Delivery (Cram) 9:55
7.Compressed Remnants (Cram) 1:12

 "The New Orchestra Quintet was formed in 1977. Their debut concert was at the U.B.C. Concert Hall in 1978, also the year of their first recording sessions at PSI Chord Studios in Vancouver. The group went on to form the New Orchestra Workshop Society, which included the C.O.R.D. Orchestra, who collaborated with vibraphonist, Karl Berger, and Sessione Milano, with flutist Don Druick. The group recorded the original LP, Up ‘Til Now, in 1979. The players went on to form many other ensembles that continue to tour and record in Canada and internationally until today."
- Gregg Simpson, 2004

Review Excerpts:
The New Orchestra Quintet is the strongest thing I’ve heard coming out of Canada.
- Milo Fine, Cadence Magazine, 1980

Up ‘Til Now presents conceptual and structural risks, abrupt juxtapositions and flaring tangents
- Bill Shoemaker, Coda Magazine,1980.

Up ‘Til Now far outstripped Canadian records in 1980.
- Mark Miller, Globe and Mail, 1982.

Release date: July 20, 2004
  $25.00(US)  plus $6.00 for mailing
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GREGG SIMPSON
 DRUM FIRE
Solo and Duets
Featuring
Drums: Gregg Simpson; Piano: Paul Plimley; George McFeteridge
  Saxophones: Paul Cram (alto); George McFeteridge (soprano); Glenn Spearman (tenor)


"a sharp turn toward the outer stratosphere"
-Jerome Wilson, Cadence Magazine, June 2005

Condition West Recordings  (Cover art by Gregg Simpson) / $15.00(US)  plus $5.00 for shipping

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The Al Neil Trio
Retrospective 1965-1968 Double CD
Al Neil - piano, zither, vocals, miscellaneuous instruments;
Richard Anstey - accoustic bass, soprano sax, vocals, toy instruments;
Gregg Simpson - drums, persussion, toy instruments, sound collages

        "Canadian pianist Al Neil may be little known except for a circle of old Vancouver enthusiasts, but it makes this two-CD RETROSPECTIVE
        all the more fascinating to study. As a writer and poet, he imported his spontaneous cut-up technique into the music, which added to
        drummer Gregg Simpson's tape loop contraption (the "vortexerola"), and bassist Richard Anstey's uncanny vocalizations produced
        some very weird real-time sound collages. Neil's style combines elements of Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, and Taylor (even though
         he wasn't aware of it); he has power, over-spilling emotions, and a certain form of madness that actually pushes the music further
         over the edge than what Taylor was doing at the time. It takes you back to the days when experimental music meant taking risks.
         A definitive document."    François Couture -All Music Guide
 

Blue Minor Records 121 2001
 $25.00(US) plus $5.00 for shipping (includes 36 page booklet)

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Lunar Aventures
Alive in Seattle
ALIVE IN SEATTLE
                Featuring: Coat Cooke, Ron Samworth, Clyde Reed, Gregg Simpson
 Recorded live in 1987 at the Ear It Live Festival, Seattle.

Nine Winds   NWCD 0132
(Cover art by Gregg Simpson)

$15.00 (US) plus $5.00 shipping 

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THE FUTURE IS NOW 




Nine Winds   NWCD 0131
New Orchestra Workshop Anthology #1
Featuring: Coat Cooke, Ron Samworth, Clyde Reed, Gregg Simpson, Paul Plimley,
Kate Hammett-Vaughn, Graham Ord, Paul Blaney, Roger Baird, Bruce Freedman,
Bill Clark, Claude Ranger and others.

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NOW You Hear It


New Orchestra Workshop Anthology #2
Nine Winds NWCD 0151
$15.00 (US) plus $5.00 shipping
 

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RALPH EPPEL
  
Gravity Boots
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2 CD's

Recorded live in Vancouver

                            Ralph Eppel (trombone, trumpet), Tony Wilson (guitar) and Gregg Simpson, drums) on all tracks.
                            Featured on various tracks: tenor sax players Oldritch Zitek and Rob Armus, vibist Gordon Koch,
                            bassists Paul Blaney, Danny Parker and James Young
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New Orchestra Recordings   NOR 011

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