The Cortège (album)

The Cortège
Studio album by
Mike Westbrook Orchestra
Released1982
RecordedMarch and April 1982
StudioThe Music Centre, Wembley, England
GenreJazz
Length136:45
LabelOriginal ORA 309
ProducerFiachra Trench, Kate Westbrook, Mike Westbrook
Mike Westbrook chronology
The Paris Album
(1981)
The Cortège
(1982)
A Little Westbrook Music
(1983)

The Cortège is an album by the Mike Westbrook Orchestra, performing a composition for jazz orchestra composed by Westbrook with texts from Federico García Lorca, Arthur Rimbaud, Hermann Hesse, William Blake, Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, John Clare, Pentti Saarikoski, and other European poetry, which was recorded in 1982 and first released as a triple LP on the Original label and reissued as a double CD on Enja in 1993 and 2011.