Mike Westbrook is internationally known as a piano and tuba player, as well as a bandleader, composer and arranger. Over the years he has fused jazz with poetry, theatre and the visual arts, and has enlarged the jazz concept by utilising a rich concotion of influences: rock, folk and world music. Mike was awarded the OBE in 1988.
With Westbrook and Company, Mike and Kate Westbrook have inaugurated a new type of Jazz / Cabaret ensemble whose collective talents encompass a whole range of contemporary music and music theatre.
Platterback was originally commissioned by Blackheath Concert Halls with funds from the London Arts Board and received its world premiere at Kettle's Yard in Cambridge on 12th June 1998. It has now been made available on compact disc on the new Jazzprint label.
Line-up: Mike Westbrook - piano, tuba, voice; Kate Westbrook: voice; John Winfield: voice; Karen Street: accordion, voice; Stanley Adler: cello, voice.
