Mike Westbrook Orchestra - album Metropolis 1971

"Metropolis" is the fifth album released by English jazz pianist, composer and writer of ochestrated jazz pieces Michael (Mike) John David Westbrook from Highway Combe, England.
"Metropolis" is a suite composed of 9 movements performed with a big band of 22 musicians. The work of years flow into the suite, dilated performances that involve alternating collective improvisations with themes performed in solos, with the addtion of the instrument voice. Hinted and soffused melodies, rock rhythms and use of electric instruments. "Metropolis" is a concept album that imagines a any day big city crossing.

Mike Westbrook - piano.
Norma Winstone - vocals.
John Taylor - electric piano.
Gary Boyle - guitar.
Dave Holdsworth , Harry Beckett - trumpet flugelhorn.
Nigel Carter - trumpet.
George Khan - tenor saxophone.
Alan Skidmore - soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone.
Derek Wadsworth, Malcon Griffiths, Paul Nieman - trombone,
Ray Warleigh - flute, alto saxophone.
Henry Lowther - flugelhorn, trumpet.
Kenny Wheeler - mellophone, trumpet, flugelhorn.
Paul Rutheford - euohoninium, trombone.
Mike Oeborne - clarinet, alto saxophone.
Geoff Perkins - bass trombone.
John Warren - barotone saxophone.
Harry Miller - bass, cello.
Chris Laurence - bass, electric bass.
Alan Jackson, John Marshall - drums.

Part I.
Part II.
Part III.
Part IV.
Part V.
part VI.
Part VII.
Part VIII.
Part IX.