Tony Gould Plays Gould, from 1979, with John Sangster and Best of Friends 1984

Very similar to Bill Evans' collaboration with Claus Ogerman called Symbiosis which I raved about, with good reason, back here, this is the kind of lost music I get so excited about combining orchestra, piano, and jazz/fusion elements hopefully in a cohesive whole, as I like to say, all the best musical inventions of humankind combined into one tasty soup.  And on top of that, completely lost to time and unknown as hell.

Information here.

Of course I was led to this release through John Sangster who I posted and mentioned back here.  So when it came up I quickly snatched it. In fact this release combines his two records from 1979 and the follow up contemporary ecmish jazz release from 1984 (don't worry, absolutely no hint that we're in that Orwellian digitalese year).

First Movement from the piano concerto album, called Brown; gives you an idea:

You can discover the next part on your own, which is just gorgeously beautiful.

In 1984 Tony also released a more straightforward cool jazz album, info here called Best of Friends. Taken on its own terms, it's quite good and worthy listening.  From that one,  Lament:

Another nice find brought out into the light of day, 40 plus years later...