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Chris Wood
Evening Blue

Album UK 2017 on HiddenMasters label
(Prog Rock, Latin Jazz)

It took over five years to piece together the first hardback book, limited edition set to chronicle and celebrate Chris Wood’s life in music - from co-founding Traffic and collaborations with John Martyn, The Wailers’ Tyrone Downie, Nick Drake, Free to his own solo work. Critically lauded around the world, "Evening Blue" is a limited edition of 1000 copies issued February 3, 2017 - curated in close collaboration with Steph Wood who administers her brother’s estate. With 66 tracks, the set comprises of a lavishly illustrated 212-page vinyl-sized book with over 420 images, the majority not been seen before. 4CDs and a vinyl LP are included in the book covers. Text was abridged and edited from Dan Ropek’s biography of Chris which includes interviews with the late Paul Medcalf and Jim Capaldi as well as many of Chris’s friends and musical colleagues. HiddenMasters also include their exclusive interviews with Steph Wood and Anna Capaldi-Gilbey; studio engineers Terry Barham and Brian Humphries; musicians Mike Kellie, Dick Cuthell, Steve Winwood, Poli Palmer, Pete Bonas, Maps (James Chapman), Gordon Jackson, Jess Roden, Bobby Whitlock, Shawn Phillips and others as well as photographers Brian Cooke, Barrie Wentzell, Gered Mankowitz, Dina Regine, Dan Cuny, David Miller, Richard Keith Wolff alongside Muscle Shoals Swampers David Hood and Charles Rose. The 4 CDs includes music drawn from Chris’s entire career with his solo recordings taking centre-stage. We also featured alternate takes and mixes as well as previously unheard compositions and never-before-heard home demos and other sketches. Naturally, there was music from Traffic as well as recordings by Gordon Jackson, John Martyn, Dave Mason, Jim Capaldi, Bobby Whitlock, Airforce, Martha Velez, Nick Drake, Shawn Phillips and others. Evening Blue also features Chris’s previously unheard collaborative work with The Wailers’ keyboard player, Tyrone Downie as well as Rebop Kwaku Baah, Remi Kabaka, The Sky, Dr John & Jeanette Jacobs. Tracks from the only known-to-survive recordings by the short-lived Mason, Capaldi, Wood & Frog line-up were also included as was a brand new 2015 collaboration – Maps with Chris Wood. And… Chris’s never-released solo LP on 180gsm vinyl. Long thought lost, the ¼” masters were discovered by chance in an outbuilding in the West of England during the late-spring of 2013. Over half the music featured on Evening Blue had never been heard before. And, other than in three instances (where the analog reels no longer existed), all the recordings were sourced from the original 2″ and 1″ multitracks or ¼” masters and cassettes captured at 24bit/96Khz.

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	Chris Wood fl, sax, 1944-1983 GB album by, tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, written by
	Chris Wood , Peter Bonas , Remi Kabaka , performer on track
	Chris Wood , Jorge Spiteri , Steve Alpert , Tyrone Downie , Charles Spiteri , David Ulm , performer on track
	Chris Wood , Peter Bonas , Charles Spiteri , Dave Early , performer on track
	Chris Wood , Peter Bonas , John Giblin , performer on track
	Chris Wood , Dick Cuthell , performer on track
	Chris Wood , Steve Winwood , Rosko Gee , performer on track
	Chris Wood , Peter Bonas , Dick Cuthell , Phil Ramacon , performer on track
	Chris Wood , Peter Bonas , Jorge Spiteri , Dave Early , Steve Alpert , performer on track
	Chris Wood , Peter Bonas , Dick Cuthell , Remi Kabaka , performer on track
	Traffic , *1967 GB performer on track
	John Martyn voc, g, 1948-2009 GB performer on track
	Martha Velez voc, *1945 US performer on track
	Ginger Baker's Air Force , 1969-1971 performer on track
	Gordon Jackson voc, eb, acg, sit, US performer on track
	Tyrone Downie key, bvoc, perc, *1956 JM performer on track
	Rebop Kwaku Baah perc, 1944-1983 GH performer on track
	Dave Mason , Jim Capaldi , Chris Wood , performer on track
	Sky , performer on track
	Chris Wood , Dr. John , performer on track
	Dave Mason voc, g, *1946 GB performer on track
	Jorge Spiteri voc, g, *1951 performer on track, bass
	Bobby Whitlock voc, org, *1948 US performer on track
	Remi Kabaka dr, *1944 NG performer on track
	Vinden Wylde dr, performer on track
	Crawler , 1976-1979 performer on track
	Shawn Phillips g, voc, *1943 US performer on track
	Maps voc, GB performer on track
	Charles Spiteri cng, voc, congas
	Dave Early dr, perc, *1958 GB drums
	Peter Bonas g, guitar
	Steve Alpert key, voc, piano
	Free , 1968-1971 GB performer on track
	Nick Drake voc, acg, 1948-1974 GB performer on track
	Jim Capaldi voc, perc, dr, 1944-2005 GB performer on track

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