Mr Smith's Apocalypse by Garrick's Fairground, released on Argo in 1971.

Sean Trane wrote for Jazz Archives:

Leader Michael Garrick amidst his best albums of the early 70’s formed a special project which didn’t fit his usual sextet formations, and therefore created Garrick’s Fairground and wrote the concept of God’s absence or non-existence. Garrick had often used the vocals in jazz in unusual manners as shown by the outstanding Lotus album and the future Troppo disc to come, but also dealing with poetry in jazz. This present ambitious work indeed took his vocals idea a few step further (read: out there), this time using full choirs, on top of four lead voices, the best-known being Norma Winstone. ..

https://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/review/mr-smiths-apocalypse-as-garricks-fairground/234387

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmgIOnIBVNo&list=RDOmgIOnIBVNo&start_radio=1

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Michael Garrick:
🎵 Robin's Rest

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https://myonlydesirerecords.bandcamp.com/track/robins-rest

https://open.spotify.com/track/5vAchpHgElXHlfqmRuZpgU

Moonscape by Michael Garrick Trio, released on Airborne Records in 1964.

One of the earliest albums as a leader from British pianist Michael Garrick – a set that pre-dates his amazing Argo albums of the 60s, and which was originally issued on 10" vinyl, in a limited pressing of 99 copies! The sound here is no less radical than Garrick's better-known albums of the decade – a mixture of angular edges and more open, free-flowing lines that soar out beautifully with a great sense of joy and life! Although a trio album, the record has all of the same imagination as Garrick's sextet dates – a sense of space and creative energy that's simply breathtaking – supported by some excellent original compositions by Garrick, and played by a trio that includes Dave Green on bass and Colin Barnes on drums. - Dusty Grooves

https://www.trunkrecords.com/releases/moonscape_07/moonscape.php

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6KmWvfxAVQ

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Dusk Fire by Don Rendell Ian Carr 5tet, released on Columbia in 1966.

Kenneth Bridgham wrote on Allmusic:

A superb blending of both jazz and classic elements into a third stream. Both the concept and the trumpet sound are very obviously indebted to Miles Davis, but that does not change the fact that this is beautiful music to behold, whether one is looking to intensely focus on the minimalism of every note or just medidate to the overall experience.

https://jazzjournal.co.uk/2019/06/12/don-rendell-ian-carr-quintet-dusk-fire/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw9a232j7tU&list=PLAeiyKcSz5mI53g6TQ2oQ8BOfXzeh1rkm&index=1

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Children Of Time by Michael Garrick Jazz Britannia Orchestra With Norma Winstone, released on Jazz Academy Records in 2006.

On Children of Time, Michael Garrick stretches his sacred-jazz imagination into cosmic scale, writing for the Jazz Britannia Orchestra and reuniting with vocalist Norma Winstone to explore creation myths, Eucharistic ritual, and his own visionary texts. The result is a 2006 suite that feels like a liturgy drifting through deep space, turning theology into glowing, unsettled sound. - Soundohm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvYmWZPJLrA&list=RDBvYmWZPJLrA&start_radio=1

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Michael Garrick:
🎵 Late Autumn Sunshine

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https://myonlydesirerecords.bandcamp.com/album/late-autumn-sunshine

https://open.spotify.com/track/5oZpK6o53gg9RD61XQFrk2

A Case Of Jazz by Shake Keane And The Michael Garrick Quartette, released in 1964 on Airborne Records.

Michael Garrick MBE (30 May 1933 – 11 November 2011)[1] was an English jazz pianist and composer, and a pioneer in mixing jazz with poetry recitations and in the use of jazz in large-scale choral works...

Soon after graduating, Garrick became the musical director of "Poetry & Jazz in Concert", a roadshow devised by poet and publisher Jeremy Robson, and involving writers as diverse as Laurie Lee, Adrian Mitchell, Vernon Scannell, Spike Milligan, Dannie Abse, and John Smith. Garrick's quintet at this time included Joe Harriott and Shake Keane... - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1RKHlLCnco&list=RDY1RKHlLCnco&start_radio=1

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