Update

franksfreestone — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 17:46:31 +0000

We played at some lovely festivals in the summer (see pic below at the Manchester Jazz Festival), and since then have been busy rehearsing the new material for our third album. The album was recordeded in Dec 2011 and we’ve just finished mixing it. We’re really excited about the new music and are looking forward to playing it on upcoming gigs. Check out the dates page for gigs in the pipeline. We hope to have some audio exercpts from the new album on the website very soon.

'Compassionate Dictatorship' @ The Manchester Jazz Festival

New review in ‘Jazzwise’

franksfreestone — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:13:25 +0000

” There’s something for everyone on this second release from Brit-jazzers ‘Compassionate Dictatorship….”

We’ve just had another album review, this time in the August edition of ‘Jazzwise’ (see quote above). Check out the full review on our reviews page, and check ou the photo on the fron cover (see left) of Jasper and the rest of ‘Phronesis’! There’s a feature on his great band in the magazine too!

Update

franksfreestone — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:19:45 +0000

@ St Ives 2010 photo by Tim and Mary Neale

We’ve recently had quite a few album reviews – check them out on the reviews page. We’ve also recently finished our 2010 Jazz services sponsored tour. We’ve had some great gigs – check out a review of our last gig of the tour at ‘the Spin’ in Oxford on the reviews page. There’ll also be some video uploaded soon from some of the gigs.

Album Out Now!

franksfreestone — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 09:26:14 +0000

Our new album is now out on the FMR label.

We’re currently in the middle of our 2010 tour (see the dates page for more info) so you can buy the album at one of the gigs, or go to our online shop page.

New CD out in the next couple of weeks

franksfreestone — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:41:32 +0000

The cover of our upcoming CD

We are extremely excited to announce the imminent release of our latest CD, Cash Cows. We thought you may like a sneak preview of the cover designed and realised by our good friend Johnny Manic at manicfilms.co.uk.

The album was mastered in New York by Michael Perez-Cisneros (mperezcisneros.com) and we are really pleased with the sound.

You can hear some samples on the Music page – the album will be on sale here soon.

Welcome

franksfreestone — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:57:20 +0000

Hello and welcome to our new site.

We hope to update the site regularly so please keep coming back.

On the news front – there is a lot to say. Just a few items to start us off.

Compassionate Dictatorship

We’ve recently mixed and mastered our second album ‘Cash Cow’ which will be available soon. You can check out some extracts on the music page right now! Once we’ve sorted out the artwork we’ll give you a sneak preview here and – hopefully – the CD will go to press.

After featuring on much of our second UK Jazz Services tour, we are pleased to announce that James Maddren has now officially joined the band on drums (check out the recent gig reviews on our reviews page).

James Maddren

We’re finalising our next tour, too. We have dates beginning in April this year. See the Dates page for details.