Double Trouble (Barry Guy and the London Jazz Composers' Orchestra album)
{{Infobox album
| name = Double Trouble
| type = album
| artist = Barry Guy and the London Jazz Composers' Orchestra
| cover = LJCO_Double_Trouble.jpg|border=yes
| alt =
| released = 1990
| recorded = April 5 and 6, 1989
| venue =
| studio = Radio Studio DRS, Zürich, Switzerland
| genre = Free jazz
| length = 46:30
| label = Intakt
CD 019
| producer = Intakt Records
| chronology = Barry Guy and the London Jazz Composers' Orchestra
| prev_title = Harmos
| prev_year = 1989
| next_title = Theoria
| next_year = 1992
}}
Double Trouble is an album by Barry Guy and the London Jazz Composers' Orchestra. Documenting a large-scale, 46-minute composition by Guy, it was recorded in April 1989 in Zürich, Switzerland, and was released in 1990 by Intakt Records.{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/double-trouble-mw0000363723 |title=Barry Guy / London Jazz Composers' Orchestra: Double Trouble |first=Brian |last=Olewnick |website=AllMusic |access-date=November 23, 2022}}{{cite web |url=https://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/album/barry-guy/double-trouble-with-london-jazz-composers-orchestra |title=Barry Guy - Double Trouble |website=Jazz Music Archives |access-date=November 23, 2022}}{{cite web |url=https://www.intaktrec.ch/019-a.htm |title=Barry Guy / London Jazz Composers' Orchestra / Double Trouble |website=Intakt Records |access-date=November 23, 2022}}{{cite web |url=http://www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/labels/intakt/int019.html |title=Intakt 019 Double trouble |website=EFI Group |access-date=November 23, 2022}}{{cite web |url=http://www.jazzlists.com/SJ_Label_Intakt.htm |title=Intakt discography (Intakt 001 to 099) |website=JazzLists |access-date=December 13, 2022}}
The title refers to the fact that the work was originally conceived as a double concerto for pianists Howard Riley and Alexander von Schlippenbach, joined by the combined forces of the London Jazz Composers' Orchestra and the Globe Unity Orchestra.{{cite AV media notes |title=Double Trouble |others=Barry Guy and the London Jazz Composers' Orchestra |type=liner notes |year=1990 |publisher=Intakt Records |id=CD 019 |last=Cook |first=Richard }} A second recorded realization of the piece can be found on Double Trouble Two, released by Intakt in 1998.{{cite web |url=https://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/album/barry-guy/double-trouble-two-with-london-jazz-composers-orchestra-with-irene-schweizer-marilyn-crispell-pierre-favre |title=Barry Guy - Double Trouble Two |website=Jazz Music Archives |access-date=December 13, 2022}}
Reception
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{rating|4.5|5}}
| rev2 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz
| rev2Score = {{rating|3.5|4}}{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |publisher=Penguin Books |year=2008 |pages=906 }}
}}
In a review for AllMusic, Brian Olewnick noted that the album "gives a fine example of what this group could do." He commented: "Guy deploys his 18-piece orchestra in ever-shifting groupings and conjures forth a wide-ranging array of thematic material that still coalesces into a satisfying whole... A superb recording... Very highly recommended."
The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings wrote: "the piece has a tremendous centrifugal coherence that balances the apparently anarchic but highly organized behaviour of soloists and section-players."
Writing for Dusted Magazine, Tim Daisy stated that Double Trouble was "an access point into a new world of sound" for him, and praised the playing of drummer Paul Lytton, who presented "a whole new vocabulary than what I was used to hearing; an amazing array of sounds on the drums."{{cite web |url=https://dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/88689413340/listed-tim-daisy |title=Listed — Tim Daisy |first=Tim |last=Daisy |date=June 13, 2014 |website=Dusted Magazine |access-date=November 23, 2022}}
Track listing
- "Double Trouble" (Barry Guy) – 46:30
Personnel
- Barry Guy – bass, conductor
- Evan Parker – reeds
- Trevor Watts – reeds
- Paul Dunmall – reeds
- Peter McPhail – reeds
- Simon Picard – reeds
- Henry Lowther – trumpet
- Jon Corbett – trumpet
- Marc Charig – cornet
- Paul Rutherford – trombone
- Alan Tomlinson – trombone
- Radu Malfatti – trombone
- Steve Wick – tuba
- Philipp Wachsmann – violin
- Howard Riley – piano
- Barre Phillips – bass
- Paul Lytton – drums
References
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