Saluting Sgt. Pepper

Saluting Sgt. Pepper
Studio album by
Django Bates and the
Frankfurt Radio Big Band
Released7 July 2017
RecordedOctober 2016
StudioHorfunkstudio II
Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt
Genre
Length45:17
LabelEdition Records
EDN1094
Producer
Django Bates chronology
The Study of Touch
(2016) 		Saluting Sgt. Pepper
(2017) 		Tenacity
(2020)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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The Guardian[1]
The Times[2]
All About Jazz[3]
DownBeat[4]

Saluting Sgt. Pepper is an album by the composer, multi-instrumentalist and band leader Django Bates with the Frankfurt Radio Big Band, which was released by Edition Records in 2017.[5] The album was commissioned by the Frankfurt Radio Big Band to mark the 50th anniversary of the release of The Beatles’s Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, which is the UK’s best-selling studio album as of 2020. The recording also features the Danish group, Eggs Laid By Tigers[6] and the multi-instrumentalist Stuart Hall.[7] It was performed live at Deutsches Jazzfestival Frankfurt and at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in 2016.[8]

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  4. ^ Woodward, Josef (September 2017). "Django Bates: Saluting Sgt. Pepper". DownBeat. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
  5. ^ Allmusic: Django Bates: Saluting Sgt Pepper accessed 19 March 2022
  6. ^ "Eggs Laid By Tigers". Discogs. September 2017. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
  7. ^ "Stuart Hall". Discogs. September 2017. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
  8. ^ "A Day in the Life - Django Bates and hr-Bigband celebrate "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"". YouTube. March 2017. Retrieved 26 March 2022.