2018 Granite
A collaboration with Kate Westbrook, with texts inspired by Dartmoor and its granite quarries. Commissioned by Frank Eichler and premiered in Ashburton, Devon on June 21st 2018 in The Dartmoor Resonance Music Festival. Performed by The Granite Band: Kate Westbrook voice, Roz Harding saxophone, Jesse Molins and Matthew North guitars, Mike Westbrook piano, Billie Bottle bass guitar, Coach York drums. Album produced by Jay Auborn and Callum Godfroy released on Westbrook Records. International debut at Women in Jazz Festival, Halle, Germany 26/4/19. London Premiere Kings Place 16/5/19.
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Compositions for small groups, music theatre and jazz cabaret
2013 - The Serpent Hit
A composition for voice, saxophone quartet and percussion with texts by Kate Westbrook, music by Mike Westbrook. Based on a piece originally commissioned by the Delta Saxophone Quartet in 2009. Premiered by the Mike Westbrook Band in London, April 2011 and broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.
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2012 - Five Voyages
Composition for voice and piano, commissioned by Peninsular Arts as Part of a series commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the foundation of Plymouth University as a School of Navigation. Performed by Kate and Mike Westbrook and released on a Commemorative CD by Peninsular Arts. Later Included in the repertoire of The Westbrook Trio. Available as a download.
2009 - Fine 'n Yellow
A studio album dedicated to the memory of Margery and John Styles, with texts by Kate Westbrook, music by Mike Westbrook. Recorded with Jon Hiseman. Released in a Limited Edition in 2009, and on the Gonzo label in 2010. First live performance by the Mike Westbrook Band - London April 2011.
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2008 - English Soup or The Battle of the Classic Trifle
A piece commissioned by the Bollwater Project with lyrics by Kate Westbrook music by Mike Westbrook performed by Kate Westbrook with The Village Band premiered at the Peninsular Arts Contemporary Music Festival, University of Plymouth February 2008.
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2006 - The Nijinska Chamber
A celebration of the life of the choreographer and dancer Bronislava Nijinska, lyrics by Kate Westbrook, music by Mike Westbrook. Performed by the duo Kate Westbrook (voice), Karen Street (accordion). Album produced by Jon Hiseman released on Voiceprint 29/05/2006
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2006 - The Waxeywork Show
A piece for voice and acoustic brass with lyrics by Kate Westbrook, music by Mike Westbrook. Written for the Mike Westbrook Village Band (West Country based sextet) and first performed in jazz clubs and arts centres in Devon and Cornwall Spring 2006 and a number of performances at the London Jazz Festival in November 2006.
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2003 - Art Wolf
Commissioned for the re-opening on October 15, 2003, of the Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland, extended and re-designed by architects Herzog and de Meuron. Text by Kate Westbrook inspired by the life and work of the painter Caspar Wolf (1735-1783) and music by Mike Westbrook for quartet: Kate Westbrook (voice, tenor horn), Peter Whyman, Chris Biscoe (saxophones) and Mike Westbrook (euphonium, piano).
CD produced by Jon Hiseman, released on altrisuoni in 2005.
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2002 - L'Ascenseur/The Lift
A composition marking the 20th Anniversary of the formation of The Westbrook Trio, inspired by the groups geographical and musical travels. Music by Mike Westbrook and Chris Biscoe, texts by Kate Westbrook. Versions in German, French, Italian and Portuguese. European Touring. U.K. Premiere at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, November 13 2002.
Album: L'Ascenseur/The Lift CD on Jazzprint.

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2002 - Cuff Clout
Remake of Kate Westbrook's neoteric Music-Hall EVEN/UNEVEN originally premiered May 1994 at London Jazz Festival and Chard Festival of Women in Music. Texts by Kate Westbrook, music by Eleanor Alberga, Barbara Thompson, Lindsay Cooper, Chris Biscoe, James McMillan, Jenni Roditi, Errolyn Wallen and Mike Westbrook. Album recorded by Jon Hiseman with musicians from the worlds of jazz, pop and contemporary classical music.
CD Released on Voiceprint, February 2004.
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1998 Platterback
A jazz-cabaret with story and lyrics by Kate Westbrook and music by Mike Westbrook, performed by a new 5-piece ensemble Westbrook & Company, - Kate Westbrook, John Winfield/voices; Karen Street/accordion & voice; Stanley Adler/cello & voice; Mike Westbrook/piano, tuba & voice. From 2000 Wills Morgan and Chris Allan replace Messrs Winfield and Adler.

Album release on PAO Records (Austria) in January 1999, subsequently Voiceprint (UK) on Jazzprint label 2001, distributed by Discovery Records.

Commissioned by Blackheath Concert Halls, London Arts and Peter Fritz. Premiered at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge in June 1998. Touring in UK and Europe. Live TV in Poland and Czech Republic, radio in Germany and Italy.
1997 Love or Infatuation
A jazz cabaret based on on the Hollywood songs of Friedrich Hollaender devised and performed by the Kate Westbrook/Mike Westbrook Duo. First performed as part of a tribute to Hollaender's music at the Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, 1996.

Album: Love or Infatuation, released on ASC Records. Available only as a download
ASC Records ASC CD20 - Limited Edition.
1995 Stage Set
A programme of music for voice and piano, performed by the Kate Westbrook / Mike Westbrook Duo, comprising original songs, settings of European poetry, standards and popular songs.

"Stage Set" released on ASC Records, March 1996
ASC CD9 - Available now as a download only
1988 Off Abbey Road
Based on The Beatles’ Abbey Road album. Arranged for 8-piece band featuring vocalists Kate Westbrook and Phil Minton. Commissioned by Comune di Reggio Emilia for a festival in Reggio Emilia in December 1988 celebrating the music of The Beatles. Recorded live at Willisau Jazz Festival in August 1989.
Released as CD and cassette Off Abbey Road on Enja/Tiptoe Records in February 1990.
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Revived as‘AFTER ABBEY ROAD’ with John Winfield in place of Phil Minton. Recorded live in Nuremberg in 1996. Released as a download.
1986 Pierides
Dance / Music Theatre piece based on the theme of the Greek muses, commissioned by Extemporary Dance Theatre and performed by a company of eight dancers and four musicians - Brian Godding, Peter Whyman. Kate Westbrook and Mike Westbrook - The Dance Band. Lyrics and original concept by Kate Westbrook, choreography by Emilyn Claid, designed by Jacqueline Gunn. Pierides toured thirteen English theatres in over sixty performances in the spring and summer of 1986. LP Pierides released on Westbrook Records (1986). LP & CD re-released on Core/Line (1987).
Re-issued by Jazzprint on CD in Westbrook Music Theatre series May 2002.
1985 The Ass
Music-Theatre Entertainment, by Kate and Mike Westbrook, commissioned by the D.H. Lawrence Centenary Festival, Nottingham, based on Lawrence’s poem. Set in Taormina, Sicily, it includes a traditional Sicilian song about a donkey ‘Lu Me Sceccu’. Produced by Foco Novo Theatre Company, with a company of six actor-musicians, including Stephen Boxer in the role of D.H. Lawrence. The Ass toured a dozen British theatres and arts centres in the autumn of 1985. It was directed by Roland Rees and designed by Ariane Gastambide, with choreography by Pat Garrett.

BBC Radio 3 recording directed by Derek Drescher.
Issued by Jazzprint on CD in Westbrook Music Theatre series May 2002.
1984 Westbrook Rossini
Jazz and Rock variations on themes from the operas of Gioacchino Rossini, including arias form The Barber of Seville, Otello and William Tell. Arranged for a 7-piece brass band. William Tell material originally commissioned by the Festival International de Theatre Contemporain, Lausanne (1984). Full Westbrook-Rossini programme premiered at the Andre Previn Music Festival, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London (1985). Extensive European touring, including numerous festival appearances.
Double LP recorded live at Zurich Jazz Festival, released on Hat-ART (1987). Studio version, also recorded in Zurich, released by Hat-ART on CD (1988).

Studio CD - reissued 2008
Double LP re-issued on CD - Hat ART CD 6152 - now deleted.

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1982 A Little Westbrook Music
A trio formed by Kate Westbrook, Mike Westbrook and Chris Biscoe. A jazz-cabaret of songs, theatre music, poetry and improvisation, including original songs and settings of poetry in various European languages, as well as jazz standards, songs by Brecht-Weill and Cole Porter and material drawn from such Westbrook works as The Cortege and Mama Chicago. Extensive touring and festival appearances in Europe; also in Canada, Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong.
LP & Cassette 'A Little Westbrook Music' (Westbrook Records 1983). Download available

Double LP Love For Sale (Hat-Art 1986). (LP now deleted). Released on CD, November 1990. (CD now deleted).
1981 Hotel Amigo
A music-theatre piece, with music, lyrics and scenario by Kate and Mike Westbrook. Performed by the 6-piece Mike Westbrook Brass Band, with singers Kate Westbrook and Phil Minton. Premiered at the Tricycle Theatre, London, and subsequently toured in Britain and Europe. TV adaptation made for Television Southwest (1983), directed by Derek Fairhead.

Songs from the show are included in the LP album 'A Little Westbrook Music' (1983).
(LP now deleted). Download Available
1978 Mama Chicago
A Jazz cabaret with lyrics by Kate Westbrook and Michael Kustow, music by Mike Westbrook. Included material originally commissioned in 1976 by the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, for a musical about Al Capone, ‘Mama Chicago’, by Roger Planchon and Michael Kustow. The Jazz Cabaret performed by the Mike Westbrook Brass Band, featuring the voices of Kate Westbrook and Phil Minton. Premiered at the Open Space Theatre, London, 1978. Edinburgh Festival Fringe Award 1978. Many subsequent performances in London and extensive touring in Britain and Europe.

Double LP Mama Chicago recorded in Hamburg (1978) for Teldec, with UK release on RCA (now deleted). TV version directed by Tony Staveacre (1980) for BBC series ‘A Little Night Music’.
CD Released 2007 - Now deleted - Download Available

DVD Release 2011  Now Deleted.
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2016 Paintbox Jane
A celebration of Raoul Dufy’s paintings and a meditation on the nature of Art. Book and lyrics by Kate Westbrook, music by Mike Westbrook. Commissioned by Bob Baker for Jane Mann. Premiered at Vout ‘O Reenees. London March 5th 2016 and subsequently toured by the 7-piece ensemble Westbrook & Company: Tim Goodwin actor, in the role of Raoul Dufy, Kate Westbrook, Martine Waltier, Billie Bottle voices, Marcus Vergette double bass, Mike Westbrook piano.
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2024 Band of Bands
Songs and instrumental pieces from the Westbrook repertoire, arranged for seven - piece: Kate, Mike, Karen Street (accordion), Chris Biscoe & Pete Whyman (saxophones), Marcus Vergette (bass), Coach York (drums). Album recorded live at Ashburton Arts Centre, November 2023 by Matthew North, produced by Jay Auborn.
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2020 Earth Felt The Wound
Title a quote from Milton’s Paradise Lost. Kate’s libretto, with music by Mike, examine contemporary issues of climate change and threats to the planet. Performed and recorded by the Granite Band.
Album produced by Jay Auborn. Film ‘Threat of Natural Disaster’ by Martha Shepherd.
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2016 PARIS
Solo piano performance at 19 rue Paul Fort, Paris, recorded by Jon Hiseman and released in on asc records. Followed by Starcross Bridge (hatOLOGY 2017) and, from 2022, a four - album series, the piano and me, on Westbrook Records, recorded by Matthew North. PARIS CD
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2015 Sonnet for Stephen
A tribute to Stephen Hewitt (1957 - 2014), written and recorded with Roz Harding, Sarah Dean, Gary Bayley, saxophones, Marcus Vergette, bass, Coach York, drums. Released as a limited edition single by Westbrook Records. Big Band version, Freedom’s Crown, performed and recorded by the Uncommon Orchestra in A Bigger Show.
1994  Un Aveugle Chante Pour Sa Ville / The Blind Man Sings to his City
Setting of a poem by the Bosnian poet Abdulah Sidran recorded by the Westbrook Trio with tracks by other European artists for the album Sarajevo Suite in aid of the rebuilding of the Bosnia - Herzegovina National Library in Sarajevo, destroyed by Serbian bombing in 1992.
Also recorded on the Westbrook Duo album Stage Set ( asc records 1996 )
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