Whats Earthworks Underground Orchestra?
The multi-talented reedsman Tim Garland, a fine composer in his own right, has been the featured artist in Earthworks, one of the longest running and internationally successful UK jazz exports, since early 2002, and the quartet has performed all over the world to remarkable acclaim. Simultaneously, the energetic Garland has also been organising the Dean Street Underground Orchestra, a little big-band of the cream of London players, for regular monthly performances at the Dean Street Pizza Express Jazz Club where Earthworks “Footloose and Fancy Free” was recorded. It was only a matter of time for one to become subsumed into the other in a mutually beneficial exchange; the intricate and idiosyncratic nature of Bills compositions for Earthworks would breathe and expand on the larger canvas, and Garland would have an existing and unusual body of music to rearrange for an even greater impact than the quartet can produce. Saxophonist Iain Ballamy, a founding member of Earthworks back in 1987
