Goodbye Swingtime

Goodbye Swingtime
Studio album by The Matthew Herbert Big Band
Released May 2003
Recorded 2001 - 2002
Genre Nu Jazz
Length 58:26
Label Accidental Records
Producer Matthew Herbert
The Matthew Herbert Big Band chronology

Secondhand Sounds: Herbert Remixes
(2005)		 Goodbye Swingtime
(2006)		 Plat Du Jour

Goodbye Swingtime is the first album by The Matthew Herbert Big Band, released in May 2003. The whole album deals with the media in general. The albums consists of three instrumental tracks which introduce into the album, divides the album into to parts and end the album. The remaining tracks have vocal appearances by long-term collaborator Dani Siciliano, Arto Lindsay, Mara Carlyle, Jamie Lidell and Shingai Shoniwa. Before its release some of the songs had different titles and were in a different order.

December 2003 saw a release of the EP "The Process, The Parts, The Many and the Few". It contains various (working) versions of the album track "The Many and the Few", cut and alternative sequences of other songs and a Big Band rearrangement of "Café De Flore".

Track listing

  1. "Turning Pages" – 7:45
  2. "Everything's Changed" – 4:44
  3. "Fiction" – 4:14
  4. "The Three W's" – 5:55
  5. "Chromoshop" – 5:50
  6. "The Battle" – 4:58
  7. "Misprints" – 6:13
  8. "The Many and the Few" – 5:01
  9. "Simple Mind" – 5:20
  10. "Stationary" – 8:29

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