Over the years I’ve purchased a number of compilation CDs, and as is usually the case with such things, there will be songs that meant nothing to me when the purchase was made. Sometimes, I’ll grow to enjoy such tracks, but there are just as many instances when the song fails to grow on me at all.
Given that the Colin Steele Quartet is a jazz combo, it’s maybe no surprise that today’s latest offering in the alphabetical tun through of songs by Scottish singers/bands/performers for this series is one that I don’t listen to.
mp3: Colin Steele Quartet – You’ll Never Steal My Spirit
From wiki:-
Colin Steele is a jazz trumpeter who played with Hue and Cry during the 1980s. After two years in France he studied jazz at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama before returning to Scotland. He has been known for influences from Latin music and funk and has recorded several well-regarded albums. He has been increasingly influenced by Scottish folk music, an influence carried into the additional instrumentation in his group Colin Steele’s Stramash, as well as playing in Ceilidh Minogue’s horn section.
The song I have on the hard drive comes from Goosebumps – 25 Years of Marina Records, the compilation released in 2018 in celebration of the German-based label which has long had a very close connection with independent artists from Scotland, driven in the main by Douglas McIntyre of Creeping Bent Records. The track was originally released in 2017 on the album Diving For Pearls (Jazz Interpretations Of The Pearlfishers Songbook).
The Pearlfishers were featured as #241 in this series back in December 2020.
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