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Retrospective: 1965-1968
The Al Neil Trio -  double CD

R and D..

C.O.R.D. Orchestra
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C.O.R.D. Orchestra:  R. and D.
2 CD's



UP 'TIL NOW
The New Orchestra Quintet
On Tour

Eppel, Simpson, Bell
2CD's

Music  ForR the Living

Eppel, Simpson, Bell
2 CD's

A-Group: Condition West

Big Sea 5: Systematics
2 CD's
First and Last

New Orchestra Quintet
2 CD's

Drum Fire

Gregg Simpson Solo and Duets
Sunship Jazz Ensemble

Includes material released in 1975
on CBC Transcription Label.

Alive in Seattle

Lunar Adventures
The Future is Now

New Orchestra Workshop
NOW You Hear It

New Orchestra Workshop

Harmolodic Highlanders

The Celtic Jazz of Gregg Simpson
Gravity Boots

Ralph Eppel
Mirage Dance

Gregg Simpson: Works for Synthesizer

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New Orchestra Quintet: First and Last  NOR 012
2 CD's
$15.00 plus $10.00 postage
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.”


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C.O.R.D. Orchestra


C.O.R.D. Orchestra: R. and D.
2 CD's


The New Orchestra Worshop created the C.O.R.D. Orchestra in 1978.
It included Paul Cram, Lisle Ellis, Ralph Eppel, Paul Plimley and Gregg Simpson  from the New Oorchestra Quintet,
with Karen Oliver-violin, Dave Todd- trumpet, Harriett VanDeusen-cello,  Ken Newby-reeds, Linda Barrett-harp,
Marian Penner-Bancroft-flute, Coat Cooke-tenor sax,  Clyde Reed-bass, Don Ogilvy-viola, and Jeff  Ridley-viola

$15.00 plus $10.00 postage
NOR 012
NOR 013

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Harmolodic Highlanders
Featuring: Lunar Adventures, Paul Cram Trio, Tribal Dynamics


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

Condition West 003
 $12.00 plus $10.00 postage

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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.

$18.00  plus $10.00 postage 
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


 
2 CD's  Release date: July 20, 2004
Recorded in Vancouver: 1978, 1979

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  $15.00 plus $10.00 for mailing

            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.

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E.S.B.
MUSIC FOR THE LIVING

      
Bob Bell-guitar, bass, alto sax, percussion / Ralph Eppel - trombone, trumpet, euphonium,
bass, percussion / Gregg Simpson - drums, percussion

Originally released in 1982 on ISM Records (ISM1001)
 (includes new material)

2 CD's
$15.00  plus $10.00 for shipping
NOR 014

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E.S.B.
On Tour

     
Bob Bell-guitar, bass, alto sax, percussion / Ralph Eppel - trombone, trumpet, euphonium,
bass, percussion / Gregg Simpson - drums, percussion
Recorded on tour in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto and Montreal, 1981-1982

2 CD's
$15.00  plus $10.00 for shipping
NOR 015

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A-Group and Big Sea 5
Condition West /
Systematics

                 
                    CONDITION WEST

                           A Group
                    
                      SYSTEMATICS
                         Big Sea Five

                                      Two CDs

      
A-Group: Condition West  
Bob Bell-guitar, alto sax, percussion / Paul Cram: Reeds, percussion
 Ralph Eppel - brass,
percussion / Gregg Simpson - drums, percussion

Big Sea 5: Systematics
Bob Bell: guitar, / Paul Cram: reeds / Ralph Eppel: brass
Lisle Ellis bass / Gregg Simpson - drums

2 CD's
$15.00  plus $10.00 for shipping
NOR 016

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GREGG SIMPSON
 DRUM FIRE
Solo and Duets
         

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) / $12.00  plus $10.00 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
2 CD's
(includes 36 page booklet)

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Lunar Aventures
Alive in Seattle

        
Coat Cooke, tenor saxophone/Ron Samworth, electric guitar/
Clyde Reed, bass /Gregg Simpson, drums
 Recorded live in 1987 at the Ear It Live Festival, Seattle. 1987
Nine Winds  NWCD 0132  (Cover art by Gregg Simpson)

$15.00 (US) plus $10.00 shipping 


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New Orchestra Workshop Anthology #1
THE FUTURE IS NOW 


             
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.
Nine Winds   NWCD 0131


$15.00 (US) plus $5.00 shipping

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New Orchestra Workshop Anthology #2
NOW You Hear It

        
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.

Nine Winds NWCD 0151

$15.00 (US) plus $10.00 shipping
 


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Ralph Eppel
Gravity Boots

 
RALPH EPPEL
  
Gravity Boots
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2 CD's
                
     
 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

2 CD's
$18.00 plus $10.00 shipping

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    MIRAGE DANCE
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Gregg Simpson
Works for Synthesizer



$10.00  plus $10.00 for shipping
Condition West 004

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