Phil Collins Big Band with Phil Collins on drums & featuring Gerald Albright on alto saxophone. It was 1966 when I first heard the Buddy Rich Swinging New Big Band. All the other things I was listening to at the time, had to move over and make room for this wonderful noise I had discovered. I went searching for more and discovered Count Basie with Sonny Payne, Harold Jones and Jo Jones … then Duke Ellington, and so many more. I decided that one day I’d have to have a go myself and form my own big band. Thirty years later I did it. In 1996 I toured Europe with Quincy Jones conducting, and Tony Bennett as our guest vocalist, and my band! I was in Heaven. Having dived in, I couldn’t wait to do it again. In 1998 I took the band out again and toured the USA and Europe. We recorded some shows and the result is here to listen to. For me it’s a labour of love. I’m back where I belong, behind the drums, playing music I’m proud of with some wonderful musicians. I hope it moves you as it does me. If it does come and see us sometime! Luv Phil Collins. 10 Tracks.