One of the of the highlights of last year was Dwight Trible’s visit to the UK and to round off the year, Gilles organized a ‘reenactment’ of his Montreux Jazz Festival performance with The Heritage Orchestra. The Heritage Orchestra were well on form as they had just spent three days recording their first album for the irrepressible Peterson on his new label. I caught a couple of words with Gilles about it at Shiftless Shuffle, where he seemed a little apprehensive about the prospect and returning to being the label boss after giving up Talkin’ Loud years ago. I don’t think he’s got too much to worry about as the Heritage Orchestra finished a close second to Roots Manuva in the Worldwide Session of the year in his 2005 awards. The Heritage Orchestra will be ‘updating’ the Britannia Jazz appearance with Chris Bowden again at the Birmingham Jazz Festival on Friday 3rd February.

The great news from LA is the there are plans to bring Dwight’s Living Water project to Europe this coming Spring. It’s about time more folks got to hear the album, highly recommended. And more hot news from the West Coast is Don Mizell (he of the famous Mizell brothers) is hoping to get Santana involved in Dwight’s next Living Water project together with Jazz legend Pharoah Sanders. This is truly awesome; see below Gilles recent interview with Larry Mizell after he picked up the Worldwide Lifetime achievement award on behalf of the Mizell Brothers. I own up, I wouldn’t be the Hectic I am today if it wasn’t for ”Los Conquistadores Chocolates’ and ‘Shifting Gears’; ALL time tunes.

The equally hot news is that Carlos Niño is putting together another Build An Ark project in the next few months. Whilst on the of subject of Build An Ark, apparently Kindred Spirit have stopped pressing copies of the album Peace With Every Step . This seems mighty odd to me, so snap one up if you see one going.

So Dwight and The Heritage Orchestra finished off last year. What’s in store for the next couple of months while Peterson plays the tunes along with Karen P (ex-Worldwide co-producer), Mal Fogarty and Buzzard Buzzard on ‘visuals’?

Next week, on the 26th January, the line up is Jade Fox, Dolly Daggers & Aronas. This is followed by Robert Mitchell’s Panacea & Delph in February. It’s going to be a little different for Robert and Deborah compared to the Ritzy Café gig.

And that’s not all for Robert and the band as they’ve also been booked to do a Worldwide session for Gilles at Maida Vale. Hopefully, that will be broadcast soon. This is a bit of a win-double as the F-ire Collective have also been booked.
Once again, Gilles and his extended family bless us with such a richness of jazz in all its forms. The Glenfiddich ‘Independent Mix’ may not be quite the ‘Talkin’ Loud’ & ‘Saying Something’ session of yesteryear, but who’s going to argue the bands were better than these?

Links:
Cargo www.cargo-london.com Also check out the might Nostalgia 77 and Ed Motta on their ‘radio’.
The Heritage Orchestra www.theheritageorchestra.com
Tickets for Heritage Orchestra & Chris Bowden @ Birmingham Jazz Festival on Friday 3rd February “CHRIS BOWDEN and the HERITAGE ORCHESTRA Birmingham based Chris Bowden is a brilliant young alto-saxophonist equally at home in a jazz setting with his quartet, as in a club music setting… “
Gilles Peterson Tracklisting 8/1/06 Brownswood Basement with Larry Mizell
6) The Blackbyrds - (Falling Like) ‘Dominoes’ (Blue Note)
7) Run DMC - ‘Peter Piper’ (Artista/BMG)
8) Donald Byrd - ‘Change’ (Makes You Want To Hustle) (Blue Note)
9) The Jackson 5 - ‘I Want You Back’ (Motown)
10) The Blackbyrds - ‘Reggins’ (Fantasy)
11) Marvin Gaye - ‘Where Are We Going’ (Motown)
12) Gary Bartz - ‘Carnival De L’Espirit’ (Capitol)
13) The Blackbyrds - ‘Do It Fluid’ (Fantasy)
14) Johnny Hammond - ‘Tell Me What To Do’ (MileStone Records)
15) Johnny Hammond - ‘Los Conquistadores Chocolates’ (MileStone Records)
16) Johnny Hammond - ‘Shifting Gears’ (MileStone Records)
17) Donald Byrd - ‘Wind Parade’ (Blue Note)
18) Gary Bartz - ‘Music is My Sanctuary’ (Blue Note)
19) Rance Allen - ‘Peace Of Mind’ (Blue Note)
20) Donald Byrd -‘Think Twice’ (Blue Note)
Radio Magnetic - Dwight Trible 25-7-05 :: Thursday, 26 January 2006
Jade Fox + Dolly Dagger + Aronas + Gilles Peterson + Karen P + Mal Fogarty @ Cargo, London From 7:00pm until 1:00am Price: £8.00/£6.00 in advance/before 9:00pm. See www.cargo-london.com
Deborah Jordan @ MySpace www.myspace.com/deborahjordanmusic
Robert Mitchell www.robertmitchellmusic.com
F-IRE www.f-ire.com
Gilles Peterson – Biog1