Dave Stapleton

New Jazz Wales

Released Nov 2003 | redeye001

Tracklisting

1. Nowhere to Go - Steve Waterman Jazz Orchestra
2. Have You Met Miss Jones - Fraser Allibone Quartet
3. Snowseen - Jones O'Connor Group
4. Two Belles - Linda Strelz
5. Garota de Embu - Andrew Fawcett's Kind of Blue
6. Double Cross - Ben Thomas
7. Six - Paula Gardiner
8. Innocence - Dave Stapleton Quartet
9. The Bitter Suite - Laurence Cottle Big Band
10. Burstin' at the seams - Heavy Quartet
11. The Chicken - Sabina Turvey Quartet
12. Skaravan - Wonderbrass
13. Improvisation - Full Circle

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Full Circle - Explorations

Released Sep 2004 | redeye002

Tracklisting

1. Part 1
2. Part 2
3. Part 3
4. Part 4
5. Part 5
6. Part 6
7. Part 7
8. Part 8

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Christopher Rees - The Sweetest Ache

Released Oct 2004 | redeye003

Tracklisting

1. Rut
2. Kiss Me Kill Me
3. Curtain Call
4. The Sweetest Ache
5. Swandive
6. Getaway Blues
7. The Things You Do
8. Fire Eye Land
9. Inevitable Truth
10. Lobotomy

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CONWAY SUITE - Dave Stapleton and Deri Roberts

Released Jul 2005 | redeye005

Tracklisting

1. Prologue
2. Second Light
3. Incantation
4. Calm
5. Journey Home
6. Epilogue

Musicians

Deri Roberts - Tenor and Soprano Saxophones
Dave Stapleton - Church Organ

Recorded on10th February 2005 by Christopher Rees at Conway Church, Cardiff Mixed and Mastered by Deri Roberts and Dave Stapleton at Brollyman Studio, Cardiff

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DSQ - When Life Was In Black & White

Released Sep 2005 | Red Eye Music - redeye006

Tracklisting

1. Fourmotion
2. Nearly but not quite
3. Images
4. Mr Snozman
5. I don't mind doing it
6. Ledled
7. Manfred
8. When Life was in Black and White
9. Lazy Blinker (feat. Paul Dunmall)

Musicians

Piano - Dave Stapleton 
Saxophones - Marcin Wright
Trumpet / Flugal - Jonny Bruce
Acoustic Bass - Paula Gardiner
Drums - Elliot Bennett

Special Guests

Paul Dunmall (Tenor Saxophone)
Deri Roberts (Trombone)

All music by Dave Stapleton

Recorded 24th and 24th April 2005 at Ty Cerdd Studio, Welsh Millennium Centre, Cardiff by James Clarke

Mixed and Mastered by Marcin Wright and Dave Stapleton

Produced by Dave Stapleton

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Lucky Soul - The Great Unwanted

Released Apr 2007 | Ruffa Lane

1. Add Your Light To Mine, Baby
2. One Kiss Don't Make A Summer
3. Struck Dumb
4. Lips Are Unhappy
5. My Darling, Anything
6. Get Outta Town
7. The Great Unwanted
8. Baby I'm Broke
9. My Brittle Heart
10. Ain't Never Been Cool
11. The Towering Inferno
12. It's Yours
13. The Last Song

Produced by George Shilling and Andrew Laidlaw
All Songs written by Laidlaw / Luck Soul

Additional string and horn arrangements and score preparation by Dave Stapleton

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Keith Tippett Tapestry Orchestra

Released Jun 2007 | Red Eye Music - redeye008

Keith Tippett Tapestry Orchestra

First Weaving live at Le Mans Jazz Festival on May 3rd 1998

Trumpets: Gethin Liddington, Pino Minafra, Jim Dvorak, Mark Charig
Trombone: Malcolm Griffiths, Dave Amis, Paul Rutherford
Tuba: Oren Marshall
Tenor Saxophones: Paul Dunmall, Simon Picard, Larry Stabbins
Alto Saxophones: Elton Dean, Gianluigi Trovesi, Lee Goodall
Voice: Julie Tippetts, Maggie Nicols, Vivien Ellis
Double Bass: Paul Rogers
Drums: Louis Moholo, Tony Levin
Piano: Keith Tippett

All musicians play music boxes

Disc 1

1. First Thread - 9.20
2. Second Thread -13.58
3. Third Thread - 13.27
4. Fourth Thread - 17.53

Total: 54.38

Disc 2

1. Fifth Thread - 9.59
2. Sixth Thread - 12.37
3. Seventh Thread - 10.07

Total: 32.42

Composed by Keith Tippett
Produced by Dave Stapleton

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DSQ - The House Always Wins

Released Sep 2007 | Red Eye Music - redeye010

Track Listing

1. Second Life
2. Dedication Song
3. The House Always Wins
4. Zonk
5. Cascade featuring Aref Durvesh
6. Snitch
7. Out of Focus
8. Aquamarinefeaturing Julie Tippetts

"Dave Stapleton is a real find for British Jazz…a young musician of real maturity and vision."  Jazzwise

Cat No: redeye010

Aqua Marine
Lyrics by Julie Tippetts

I was listening to the rain
I was thinking to explain
That the nearly hypnotising of dream.
In the solace only rain can bring,
In the magic pull of aquamarine –
There is only just a memory for me.

As the echoing of torrents unwind,
In the wonderment of thunder I find,
In the showering drops of heaven sublime –
Gathered in the flowing waters, they shine.
In the magic pull aquamarine –
There is only just a memory for me.
In the visionary future I see
There is only just a memory for me.
In the magic pull of aquamarine –
There is only just a memory. 

Composed by Dave Stapleton 
Published by Westbury Music Ltd / Dave Stapleton Music
Lyrics by Julie Tippetts
Produced by Dave Stapleton

Recorded byGeorge Shilling at Bank Cottage Studios on 3rd December 2006 and 10 th April 2007
Additional recording by Dave Stapleton at Red Eye Studios
Aref Durvesh recorded by Tony Platt at Kore Studios, London on 6 th May
Julie Tippetts recorded by Gaz Williams at Fliskin Manor, Bristol on 24th May
Mixed and Mastered by Andy Allan @ Brolly’s Studio,Parasol City
Band Photography byTim Dickeson (inlay photo of DSQ), Alex Mills
Album photography / Artwork Design by Alex Mills (alex@burningred.co.uk)

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