Live album · 2023
Tracklist
A Supreme Love, Chapter One
1-1 The Skidmores With Alan Haven– Now’s The Time 3:22
1-2 The Skidmores With Alan Haven– Don’t Get Around Much Anymore 2:59
1-3 The Skidmores With Alan Haven– The Preacher 4:37
1-4 Alexis Korners Blues Incorporated – Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting 3:51
1-5 Alexis Korners Blues Incorporated – Honesty 4:59
1-6 Humphrey Lyttelton Big Band– Skid’s Kid 2:45
1-7 Alan Skidmore Quartet– What Is This Thing Called Love 3:00
1-8 Alan Skidmore Quartet– Autumn Leaves 2:50
1-9 Alan Skidmore Quintet – Old San Juan 7:36
1-10 Alan Skidmore Quintet – Once Upon A Time 7:06
1-11 Alan Skidmore Quintet – Free For Al 6:45
1-12 Alan Skidmore Quintet – Double Meaning 5:36
A Supreme Love, Chapter Two
2-1 Weather Report + 3 – Directions 11:23
2-2 Alan Skidmore Quintet – Folk Nik 12:54
2-3 SOS – Country Dance 3:22
2-4 Alan Skidmore With Österreichische Rundfunksender Big Band – Up There 9:29
2-5 Alan Skidmore / Tony Levin – Oxford Road, B13 22:05
2-6 Alan Skidmore / Tony Levin (2) / Tony Oxley– Way Out East 3:26
A Supreme Love, Chapter Three
3-1 SOH – Dutch Dreams (Ali’s Waltz) 14:09
3-2 Alan Skidmore With Radio-Philharmonie Hannover Des NDR– Nature Boy 5:20
3-3 Tenor Tonic– Modal Tonic 11:46
3-4 Alan Skidmore With Radio-Philharmonie Hannover Des NDR– I Remember Clifford 3:24
3-5 Alan Skidmore Trio– Moving Along 7:03
3-6 Alan Skidmore With Colin Towns' Mask Symphonic – After the Rain 5:36
3-7 Elvin Jones Jazz Machine – George And Me 19:30
A Supreme Love, Chapter Four
4-1 Alan Skidmore & Kenny Wheeler With Jazz Live Trio– Just Once 12:43
4-2 Alan Skidmore / John Surman– Jass 3:46
4-3 Alan Skidmore / John Surman– Ist 3:16
4-4 Alan Skidmore / John Surman– Riffing Together 3:56
4-5 Alan Skidmore Quartet– Easy To Remember 7:03
4-6 Alan Skidmore Quartet– K.A.N.S.Y. 9:43
4-7 Alan Skidmore Quartet– Spiritual 13:49
4-8 Alan Skidmore Quartet– Take The Coltrane 4:01
A Supreme Love, Chapter Five
5-1 Alan Skidmore Quartet– But Not For Me 10:23
5-2 Alan Skidmore Quartet– Naima 11:39
5-3 Alan Skidmore Quartet– Impressions 15:49
5-4 Colin Towns' Mask Orchestra Featuring Alan Skidmore– John 8:40
5-5 Alan Skidmore's Ubizu – Africa 4:30
5-6 Alan Skidmore Quartet– Giant Steps 6:55
5-7 Alan Skidmore Quartet– Mr. PC 6:12
5-8 Alan Skidmore Quartet + Georgie Fame– Jumpin' With Symphony Sid 5:57
A Supreme Love, Chapter Six
6-1 Alan Skidmore Quartet + Ed Jones & Howard Cottle– Transition 20:04
6-2 Alan Skidmore Quartet + Ed Jones & Howard Cottle– Chasin’ The Trane 12:37
6-3 Alan Skidmore Quartet– Resolution 14:18
6-4 Alan Skidmore Quartet– Pursuance 13:36
6-5 Alan Skidmore Quartet– Psalm 8:59
Line-up/Musicians
About this release
Confront Recordings CORE 33 (UK)
1-1, 1-2, 1-3: London, 1961.
1-4, 1-5: London, April/June 1965.
1-6: London, 1966.
1-7, 1-8: London, 29 August 1967.
1-9, 1-10, 1-11: Montreux Jazz Festival, Casino de Montreux, 19 June 1969.
1-12: London, 27 October 1969.
2-1: 73. NDR-Jazzworkshop, Funkausstellung, Berlin, September 3, 1971.
2-2: 13th Deutsches Jazzfestival, Kongresshalle, Frankfurt, 24 March 1972.
2-3: London, 27 January 1974
2-4: ORS Jazz Time, Vienna, 25 May 1976.
2-5: Tony Levin's Music Room, Oxford Road, Birmingham, 21 July 1977.
2-6: ony Levin's Music Room, Oxford Road, Birmingham, November 1977.
3-1: Fabrik, Hamburg, 19 October 1981.
3-2: Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Hannover, December 1989.
3-3: Pendley Jazz Festival, Tring, 6 July 1985.
3-4: Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Hannover, December 1989.
3-5: London, 26 October 1987.
3-6: CTS, Wembley, London 1989.
3-7: Ronnie Scott's, London 1988.
4-1: Radio Studio DRS (Studio 2), Zurich, 19 January 1980.
4-2, 4-3, 4-4: Mike Osborne Benefit Night at 100 Club, London, 39 April 1991.
4-5, 4-6: London, 1992.
4-7, 4-8: Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Cheltenham, 5 April 1997.
5-1, 5-2, 5-3: NDR Studio, Hamburg, 10 March 2000.
5-4: Moers-Festival, Moers, 13 May 2005.
5-5: London, January 2008.
5-6: Fleece Jazz Club, Suffolk, 2011.
5-7, 5-8: A European Jazz Jamboree, Kammermusiksaal der Berliner Philharmonie, Berlin, 19 September 2008.
6-1, 6-2, 6-3, 6-4, 6-5: Café Oto, London, 17 July 2019.
All tracks previously unreleased, except:
"Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting"
"Honesty"
Alexis Korner Blues Incorporated
Sky High (Spot Records, 1966)
"Nature Boy"
"I Remember Clifford"
"After the Rain"
Alan Skidmore
After the Rain (Miles Music, 2008)
"Africa"
Alan Skidmore's Ubizu
50 Journeys (Provocateur Records, 2008)
"Impressions"
"Jumpin' with Symphony Sid"
Alan Skidmore Quartet
A Declaration of Love (ITM, 2015)
Thanks to snobb for the addition