The Cortège (album)
| The Cortège | ||||
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| Studio album by Mike Westbrook Orchestra | ||||
| Released | 1982 | |||
| Recorded | March and April 1982 | |||
| Studio | The Music Centre, Wembley, England | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 136:45 | |||
| Label | Original ORA 309 | |||
| Producer | Fiachra Trench, Kate Westbrook, Mike Westbrook | |||
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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.