Ed Puddick

Ed Puddick / The Upper Austrian Jazz Orchestra: Crazy Days

by Chris May
July 8, 2021

The opener / title track of this album could well be taken to refer to Britain's 2016 referendum on whether or not to remain in or leave the European Union, for the disc's second half, and its main event, is composer Ed Puddick's thirty-five minute “The Brexit Suite." In fact, Puddick was thinking about something else when he wrote “Crazy Days." But the two words neatly sum up the chain of events which led to a small majority of voters—a ...