EDITION RECORDS PRESENTS

DJANGO BATES
Frankfurt Radio Big Band
‘Saluting Sgt. Pepper’
Cat No: ​EDN1094
Barcode: ​(CD)
LC Code:​ 28731
Format:​ CD & Download

DJANGO BATES
FRANKFURT RADIO BIG BAND
with:
EGGS LAID BY TIGERS:
MARTIN ULLITS DAHL​ lead vocals
JONAS WESTERGAARD​ bass and vocals
PETER BRUUN​ drums and vocals

1. ​Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band ​1.56

2. ​With A Little Help From My Friends​ 2.47
3. ​Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds ​3.48
4. ​Getting Better ​3.59
5. ​Fixing A Hole ​3.20
6. ​She's Leaving Home ​3.39
7. ​Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! ​2.33
8. ​Within You Without You ​5.46
9. ​When I'm Sixty Four ​2.51
10. ​Lovely Rita ​2.59
11. ​Good Morning Good Morning ​2.48
12. ​Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) ​2.16
13. ​A Day In The Life​ 6.35
TOTAL: 45.24

All arrangements by Django Bates

All songs composed by Lennon/McCartney except “Within You Without You” composed​ ​by George
Harrison. All songs courtesy of Sony/ATV Music Publishing, used with kind permission.

WORLDWIDE RELEASE DATE: 7th July 2017

For all press enquiries and interviews: Mike Gavin:​ ​mike@editionrecords.com
ABOUT ‘Saluting Sgt. Pepper’:
​ jango Bates ​swings into a
The totally irrepressible creativity and ever-unconventional spirit of D
completely new and unpredicted sphere. In collaboration with the ​Frankfurt Radio Big Band
and ​Eggs Laid By Tigers​, Django has reimagined the seminal ​Beatles​ album S ​ gt. Pepper’s
Lonely Hearts Club Band​, the most significant Rock album of all time.

Up until now the idea of Django exploring the Beatles catalogue would have been met with an
emphatic no. However the opportunity to celebrate the 50th anniversary of an album that is a
landmark musically and culturally was a challenge he couldn't resist.

As Django explains: ​‘My meeting with Sergeant Pepper came when I bought the album for my
elder sister’s eighteenth birthday. An excellent gift. Through the closed door of her bedroom I
would catch sonic glimpses... What a wealth of sounds, genres, effects, surprises, very
generously scattered with words of madness and sanity’​.

With his overpoweringly creative spirit, his anarchic sense of humour and his incredible level of
musicality, approaching the arrangement process with a manifesto of ‘​Freedom, not Licence’,
Django's work is typically inventive and visionary. Holding on to the original structures and keys,
he gracefully folds his own colours, rhythms and sound into the music, resulting in a thoroughly
kaleidoscopic examination of this iconic album.

This music was commissioned by the ​Frankfurt Radio Big Band​. Commission partners are the
Norrbotten Big Band ​(Sweden), the ​Danish Radio Big Band​, and the ​UMO Jazz Orchestra
(Finland), joining in a spirit of international cooperation, some 50 years after the original
summer of love.

CREDITS:
Produced by Django Bates & Tim Adnitt
Executive Producer: Olaf Stötzler
Recorded October 2016, Hörfunkstudio II, Hessischer Rundfunk (hr), Frankfurt/Main
Recording Producer: Axel Gutzler
Recording Engineer: Michael Wayszak
Mixed by Tim Adnitt in London
Mastered by Ray Staff at Air Mastering, Lyndhurst Hall, London
Django Bates Management: Jeremy Farnell ​management@djangobates.co.uk

CONCERTS:
4th - 9th September 17​ - Ronnie Scotts, London - Frankfurt Radio Big Band (2 shows / night)
26th October 17 ​- Torneå/Haparanda, Sweden - Norrbotten Big Band
27th October 17 ​- Umeå, Sweden - Norrbotten Big Band
28th October 17​ - Luleå, Kulturens Hus, Sweden - Norrbotten Big Band
29th October 17 ​- Pitea, Sweden - Norrbotten Big Band
2nd November 17 ​- Helsinki, Finland - Umo Jazz Orchestra
9th November 17​ - Amager Bio, Copenhagen, Denmark - Danish Radio Big Band
PERSONEL:

Django Bates:​ keyboard, backing vocals, arranger, conductor.

Stuart Hall:​ electric guitar, acoustic guitar, lap steel, electric sitar, violin.

Eggs Laid By Tigers:

Martin Ullits Dahl: lead vocal.
Jonas Westergaard: electric bass, backing vocals.
Peter Bruun: drums, percussion, backing vocals.

Frankfurt Radio Big Band (hr-Bigband):

Heinz-Dieter Sauerborn: soprano sax, flute, clarinet.
Oliver Leicht: alto sax, flute, clarinet, alto clarinet.
Tony Lakatos: tenor sax, flute.
Steffen Weber: tenor sax, alto flute, bass clarinet.
Rainer Heute: baritone sax, bass sax, bass clarinet, contra alto clarinet.
Frank Wellert: trumpet.
Thomas Vogel: trumpet.
Martin Auer: trumpet, flugelhorn.
Axel Schlosser: trumpet, flugelhorn.
Günter Bollmann: trombone.
Peter Feil: trombone.
Christian Jaksjø: trombone.
Jan Schreiner: bass trombone.
Martin Scales: electric guitar.

SOLOS:
Tracks 2, 3, 4:​ Tony Lakatos | ​Track 5: ​Martin Scales, Django | ​Track 8:​ Stuart Hall. ​Tracks
10, 11:​ Django | ​Track 12:​ Heinz-Dieter Sauerborn, Stuart Hall.

LINER NOTES:

I was born in 1960 into a house that resounded to the sounds of jazz, african, and gypsy music,
(with occasional sprinklings of Schnittke). There was almost no culture of Pop in our home - you
could say my parents considered that to be the Devil’s music.

At the age of eight, due to a bizarre ban on cycling to school, I abruptly changed from a
“normal” school to one based on the "Freedom, not Licence" principle as exemplified by A.S
Neill’s Summerhill School. My new place of learning was called Kirkdale and it unapologetically
celebrated Hippiedom. How wonderful for a boy suddenly to have teachers who were as
childish, eccentric, and anarchic as the pupils. I use the word “pupils” advisedly as there were
virtually no lessons. We just played around in mud and set fire to things.

Two good things came from this experience: I was allowed to strum a guitar for as long as I
liked and whenever I liked, for a period of three years. I didn’t learn much about the guitar but I
learnt that it’s ok just to play your life away. And secondly, Kirkdale introduced me to a very
different kind of music from my home sounds: the psychedelic and carefree experimentation of
hippies. First they played me Abbey Road…
Using cardboard boxes in my bedroom, I had played “drums” with everyone from zulu choirs to
Davy Graham, from New Orleans Jug Bands to Mingus. I now became Ringo’s co-drummer as
the five bar chorus of She’s So Heavy crashed into my consciousness.

My meeting with Sergeant Pepper came a little later on when I bought the album for my elder
sister’s eighteenth birthday. An excellent gift. Through the closed door of her bedroom I would
catch sonic glimpses… What a wealth of sounds, genres, effects, surprises, very generously
scattered with words of madness and sanity.

I left school as soon as I could and became a musician.

Whenever asked whether I could imagine arranging anything by The Beatles I’ve always given
an emphatic “No”. So it was a surprise to hear myself giving an instant “Yes” to the invitation to
arrange Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band for the Frankfurt Radio Big Band.
Twenty-Seventeen being the album’s 50th anniversary gave it meaning and anyway you never
know how you will act in an emergency until one confronts you for real. For this enterprise I
chose the path of “Freedom, not Licence”. I held to the original structures and keys; each song
has good vibrations that millions have grown up with and, for all I know, these sounds and key
relationships may have become a common memory that is passed through our genes to each
new generation.

Before interweaving my colours, rhythms, and illustrations, I transcribed every bar through my
own ears. I had heard that there is a book of transcriptions available but it felt essential to build
on a personal reading of the album. When you listen repeatedly, in detail, you hear layer upon
layer of work, all the way down to half hidden subterranean shadows of experiments which
became over-written by the final needs of each song. The sum of all these layers is a
masterwork of writing, playing, recording, mixing, and mastering.

So, fifty years on from the original, please join us in an exploration and celebration of Sgt.
Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and a much needed memory of the Summer of Love.

Django Bates,
Bern, 2017

EDITION DISTRIBUTION NETWORK:

Saluting Sgt. Pepper​ will be distributed worldwide with the following partners:

PHYSICAL DISTRIBUTION:
ASIA​ - Mastermusic | ​AUSTRALIA​ - The Planet Company | ​AUSTRIA​ - Membran ​BELGIUM​ - Suburban /
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