Boswell's London Journal, by Chris Hodgkins Quartet with Alison Rayner, Max Brittain and Diane McLoughlin

Boswell's London Journal

by Chris Hodgkins Quartet with Alison Rayner, Max Brittain and Diane McLoughlin

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1.	The Machine 03:09	info	buy track
2.	Most Miserably Melancholy 06:43	info	buy track
3.	Wilkies 04:14	info	buy track
4.	Auchinleck 04:44	info	buy track
5.	King's Birth Night 04:06	info	buy track
6.	Repent At Leisure 02:26	info	buy track
7.	The Meeting 03:08	info	buy track
8.	Greenwich Excursion 04:41	info	buy track
9.	Vauxhall Gardens 04:03	info	buy track
10.	London 03:41	info	buy track
11.	Peggy Doig 06:19	info	buy track
12.	Turk's Head Conversations 04:25	info	buy track
13.	Louisa 05:25	info	buy track
14.	High Exultation 04:11	info	buy track
15.	Roaring Psalms 02:21	info	buy track

about

Chris’ most ambitious project to date is the album Boswell’s London Journal, a suite of 15 tunes co-composed by Chris Hodgkins and Eddie Harvey (who also did the arrangements). James Boswell, best known as the biographer of Dr Samuel Johnson, kept a daily diary between the years 1762 and 1763; this account of a very different London to today, as seen through the eyes of a 22 year old Scot, provides the inspiration for the album.

Boswell’s London Journal includes a piece entitled London, evoking Boswell’s arrival at Highgate Hill and his first view of the capital city. The Meeting commemorates Boswell’s not entirely successful first encounter with Dr Johnson on 16 May 1763. Friendship flourished however, and High Exultation documents the evening of 25 June 1763 on which Boswell and Dr Johnson wine, dine and discuss such things as ghosts, poetry, fathers and sons, and going abroad; Boswell returning home ‘in high exultation’. Greenwich Excursion was inspired by Boswell and Johnson’s boat trip down the Thames to Greenwich; Most Miserably Melancholy charts one of the author’s recurring bouts of depression. Boswell’s London Journal offers an emotionally charged landscape that amply illustrates the human condition, from the low and the vulgar to profound conversations with Samuel Johnson; the real-life incidents in the London Journal offered the composers a wealth of rich material for the album’s 15 original tunes.

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released May 12, 2022

CHRIS HODGKINS QUARTET Boswell's London Journal

Chris Hodgkins - trumpet
Diane McLoughlin - alto saxophone
Max Brittain - guitar
Alison Rayner - double bass

All titles composed by Chris Hodgkins & Eddie Harvey
Published by Paul Rodriguez Music Ltd (PRS)
Arrangements by Eddie Harvey

Produced and engineered by Bob Whitney and Malcolm Creese at audio-b.com
Recorded at Dronken Lane Studios, Hertfordshire, England on 25th and 26th August 2007
Design by Suzy Waller
Photograph by Peter Symes (1-r: Eddie, Max, Alison, Diane, Chris)
Liner Notes by Terence Hawkes

Special thanks to Eddie Harvey, Helen Maleed, and Biddy Samuels

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about

Chris Hodgkins London, UK

Chris Hodgkins MBA FCIM raised in Cardiff. Toured the UK and Europe and appeared at the Sacramento Jazz Festival in the States. With his own band he made a number of television and radio appearances. Relocated to London to play professionally. In 1985, Director of Jazz Services Ltd. Retired in 2014 took to the road, the radio and the recording studio. ... more