Eric Ball

Um, the honest answer [laughs] is, is no, I don't.

But I will say, uh, my first CD, uh, which was Glory Glory, um, there's a good mix of old and new with classics, with Eric Ball's Exodus and Kevin Maubrey's Truth Aflame.

Also on that recording, Simon Burkitt plays My Story and Song.

I've got really good memories of sitting next to Simon, who was taken from us far too early.

Okay.

But of course, I love Wilfred Heaton.

I love Eric Ball, Leslie Conn.

You know, it's so difficult.

It's Berceuse de Jocelyn.

And if there's anything better than a solo, it's perhaps a quartet, like for instance, Eric Ball's Jewels.

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that there was a 1961 album called King of Kings?

Yeah, the Eric Ball King of Kings.

Yeah.

Get us together.

Yeah, come on.

You don't remember all the conversations like, oh, if we do King of Kings, maybe we should follow the same structure of what the Eric Ball piece was?

No.

You were not the Chili's? I wasn't at that show.

Then second section, we had Harborough, another Ben conductor, Ben Smith.

That was Song of Courage, Eric Ball conducting.

Then we had Our Mate in the third section with Allerton Brass, conducted by Jamie Duncan.

They played Snow Island.

No particular themes, just good music well played by some of Britain's finest, plus one band from France and one from Switzerland.

But first we go to the repertoire of the Salvation Army, and one of the Army's greatest names in Salvation Army music, Eric Ball and his march, Torchbearers.

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