Cuff Clout

 Kate Westbrook studied Fine Art and indeed continues to

exhibit her art regularly. Kate Westbrook's musical career

began in the mid seventies when she joined Mike

Westbrook's Brass Band. Working in a number of styles

over the years including contemporary music, Jazz, Music

Hall and Opera, Kate has released a number of albums with

Mike Westbrook, Lindsay Cooper, and Fine Trash and also

in a solo capacity. In fact over the last twenty odd years

Kate has managed to record over twenty albums. Kate has

worked with some of the best musicians in the world and

amongst them are the London Symphony orchestra on the

Seven Deadly Sins written by Brecht and Weill and the

television opera Good Friday 1663 that has subsequently

been released as part of Jazzprint's Westbrook Music

Theatre series. Moving into the more mainstream Kate has

also recorded songs by the Beatles with the Westbrook

band and also Arias by Rossini with the Mike Westbrook

orchestra. Kate Westbrook also performs regularly with

the Westbrook Trio which has clocked up over twenty

years of concerts and recordings

Cuff Clout is a modern take on English Music Hall, Music

Hall for the 21st Century if you like.

Working alongside John Winfield, Kate produces a number

of settings either in a solo capacity or as a duo with John

moving through a variety of different musical settings and

utilising a number of different composers who have set

Kate's words and texts to music. They include Lindsay

Cooper, husband Mike Westbrook, Barbara Thompson

and also features musical contributions from John Winfield.

Mike Westbrook and Barbara Thompson in fact the twenty

or so performers represent a cross section of the UK's

most accomplished performers in the rock, jazz, classical

and pop fields. The album was also engineered and

directed by Barbara Thompson's husband respected

jazz-rock drummer John Hiseman and features some of

Kate Westbrook's finest and most varied vocal performances

to date.

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