Ambleside Days

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Ambleside Days
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Released1992
RecordedJuly 15, 1992
StudioRainbow Studios, Oslo
Genre Jazz
Length45:57
Label Ah Um Records
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Producer Nick Purnell
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Ambleside Days is an album by jazz pianist John Taylor and John Surman, recorded and released in 1992 on Ah Um Records. [2] Ambleside is a town in Cumbria, North West England. The album has been long out of print.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Lodore Falls" - 5:40
  2. "Wandering" - 5:05
  3. "Ambleside Days" - 10:53
  4. "Scale Force" - 4:21
  5. "Coniston Fells" - 5:48
  6. "Pathway" - 2:26
  7. "Clapperclowe" - 5:05
  8. "Dry Stone" - 6:39

Personnel

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References

  1. "John Surman / John Taylor: Ambleside Days". Allmusic . allmusic.com. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  2. "Ambleside Days". Discogs . discogs.com. Retrieved 5 December 2017.