Saltash Bells

Studio album by John Surman

Released

2012

Recorded

June 2009

Genre

Jazz

Length

59:13

Label

ECM

Producer

Manfred Eicher and John Surman

John Surman chronology

Brewster's Rooster
(2009)

Saltash Bells
(2012)

Songs About This And That
(2013)

Saltash Bells is a solo album by the English saxophonist John Surman, recorded in 2009 and released on the ECM label in 2012.^[1] After winning the Jazz FM Awards 2013 for Album of the Year,^[2] it was announced on May 9, 2013 that the record has also won the Parliamentary Jazz Awards for Jazz Album of the Year by pointing out that on this "extraordinary solo recording" Surman's "beautiful blend of reeds and electronics summons the mists, moors and mysteries in hauntingly evocative style".^[3]

Track listing

All compositions by John Surman

"Whistman's Wood" - 6:32
"Glass Flower" - 3:13
"On Staddon Heights" - 7:32
"Triadichorum" - 3:36
"Winter Elegy" - 8:17
"Ælfwin" - 2:17
"Saltash Bells" - 10:40
"Dark Reflections" - 3:27
"The Crooked Inn" - 2:41
"Sailing Westwards" - 10:37

Recorded at Rainbow Studio in Oslo, Norway in June 2009

References

External links

Official website
ECM catalogue page
Official ECM Player with listening sample

John Surman

Studio albums	John Surman How Many Clouds Can You See? Way Back When Glancing Backwards Tales of the Algonquin Westering Home Upon Reflection The Amazing Adventures of Simon Simon Such Winters of Memory Withholding Pattern Private City Road to Saint Ives Adventure Playground The Brass Project Stranger than Fiction Nordic Quartet A Biography of the Rev. Absalom Dawe Coruscating Rain on the Window The Spaces in Between Brewster's Rooster Saltash Bells

Live albums	Proverbs and Songs Invisible Nature Free and Equal

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