To coincide with the Concert celebrating Ian Carr's life and music, an album containing over an hour's performance by the Don Rendell Ian Carr Quintet recorded live in December 1966 was issued on CD by Canadian Company Reel Recordings (who specialise in remastering reel-to-reel tapes) and is now on on a double LP by British Company Stamford Audio.  Recordings by this legendary band are extremely rare.
The band was taped at the Students' Union Jazz Club at University College London on 12th December 1966 by George Foster, then Secretary of the Jazz Society at the College. In his sleeve notes he says: "The band were on exceptional form that night, even though Dave Green had to leave after a few numbers on a prior booking at Ronnie Scott's Club backing Ben Webster. The gig wasn't just a student end-of term-affair either: this room was where the New Jazz Orchestra rehearsed rent-free on Sunday afternoons in return for making the rehearsals open to a student audience. Ian was a regular NJO member, Michael & Don occasional visitors. On the tape, Don mentions Neil Ardley, Mike Gibbs "and many members of the NJO here tonight".
One was Tony Reeves, the NJO's regular bassist, standing in for Dave Green. Michael Garrick was a graduate of the College and was absolutely at home. So it was a relaxed party-like atmosphere with an audience of over 100 squeezed into the room. And I got the band's permission to tape the gig. "I heard this band many times and I don't think that their studio recordings ever fully captured the power and fire of which they were capable". If you never heard this band in the flesh, you are in for a treat or maybe even a shock, for this was a very hot band. The tape was thought to have been lost in the late 1960s, but turned up among Ian's possessions when his flat was cleared.

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