{{Short description|1998 studio album by Barry Guy}} {{Infobox album | name = Double Trouble Two | type = studio | artist = Barry Guy London Jazz Composers Orchestra with Irène Schweizer, Marilyn Crispell, and Pierre Favre | cover = LJCO_Double_Trouble_Two.jpg|border=yes | alt = | released = {{start date|1998|1|1|df=yes}} | recorded = {{start date|1995|12|19|df=yes}} | venue = | studio = Rote Fabrik, Zürich, Switzerland | genre = Free jazz | length = 47:24 | label = Intakt<br><small>CD 158</small> | producer = Intakt Records | chronology = Barry Guy London Jazz Composers Orchestra | prev_title = Three Pieces for Orchestra | prev_year = 1997 | next_title = Radio Rondo/Schaffhausen Concert | next_year = 2009 }} '''''Double Trouble Two''''' is an album by Barry Guy London Jazz Composers Orchestra with guest artists Irène Schweizer (piano), Marilyn Crispell (piano), and Pierre Favre (drums). Documenting a large-scale, 47-minute composition by Guy, it was recorded in December 1995 in Zürich, Switzerland, and was released on 1 January 1998 through Intakt Records.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://londonjazzcomposersorchestraintakt.bandcamp.com/album/double-trouble-two |title=''Double Trouble Two'' |website=Bandcamp.com |access-date=24 January 2026}}</ref><ref name="allmusic">{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/double-trouble-two-mw0000606616 |title=Barry Guy / London Jazz Composers Orchestra: Double Trouble Two |first=Steve |last=Loewy |website=AllMusic |access-date=December 13, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/album/barry-guy/double-trouble-two-with-london-jazz-composers-orchestra-with-irene-schweizer-marilyn-crispell-pierre-favre |title=Barry Guy - Double Trouble Two |website=Jazz Music Archives |access-date=December 13, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.intaktrec.ch/LJCO-a.htm |title=Barry Guy / London Jazz Composers Orchestra |website=Intakt Records |access-date=December 13, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/labels/intakt/int053.html |title=Intakt 053 Double trouble two |website=EFI Group |access-date=December 13, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jazzlists.com/SJ_Label_Intakt.htm |title=Intakt discography (Intakt 001 to 099) |website=JazzLists |access-date=December 13, 2022}}</ref>
The title refers to the fact that the work was originally conceived as a double concerto for pianists Howard Riley and Alexander von Schlippenbach, joined by the combined forces of the London Jazz Composers Orchestra and the Globe Unity Orchestra.<ref>{{cite AV media notes |title=Double Trouble |others=Barry Guy and the London Jazz Composers Orchestra |type=liner notes |year=1990 |publisher=Intakt Records |id=CD 019 |last=Cook |first=Richard }}</ref> An earlier recording of the work, ''Double Trouble'', was issued by Intakt in 1990.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/album/barry-guy/double-trouble-with-london-jazz-composers-orchestra |title=Barry Guy - Double Trouble |website=Jazz Music Archives |access-date=December 13, 2022}}</ref>
==Reception== {{Album ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="allmusic" /> | rev2 = ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz'' | rev2Score = {{rating|4|4}}<ref name="penguin">{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD |publisher=Penguin Books |year=1998 |pages=952 }}</ref> | rev3 = ''All About Jazz'' | rev3Score = {{rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="aaj">{{cite web |url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/double-trouble-two-london-jazz-composers-orchestra-intakt-records-review-by-glenn-astarita |title=London Jazz Composers Orchestra: Double Trouble Two |first=Glenn |last=Astarita |date=August 1, 1999 |website=All About Jazz |access-date=December 13, 2022}}</ref> }} In a review for AllMusic, Steve Loewy wrote that the album "is filled with remarkable moments, particularly the performances by pianists Irene Schweizer and Marilyn Crispell... The ensemble work borders on the spectacular, too... devotees of the group will want this in their collection."<ref name="allmusic" />
The authors of ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings'' awarded the album a full 4 stars, and stated: "Crispell and Schweizer have collaborated in a number of contexts. This must be one of the most powerful. It is a culminating moment for the LJCO."<ref name="penguin" />
Glenn Astarita of ''All About Jazz'' commented: "Music of this ilk provides a workout for one's imagination as the interpretations are bound to be diverse or perhaps subjected to ongoing debates or food for thought. That's where the magic lies. ''Double Trouble Two'' is an unfolding drama which gives purpose and reason to this thing we call 'free' or avant-garde jazz."<ref name="aaj" />
==Track listing==
# "Double Trouble Two" (Barry Guy) – 47:24
== Personnel == * Barry Guy – bass, conductor * Evan Parker – reeds * Trevor Watts – reeds * Paul Dunmall – reeds * Peter McPhail – reeds * Simon Picard – reeds * Henry Lowther – trumpet * Jon Corbett – trumpet * Marc Charig – cornet * Paul Rutherford – trombone * Alan Tomlinson – trombone * Chris Bridges – trombone * Robin Hayward – tuba * Philipp Wachsmann – violin * Irène Schweizer – piano * Marilyn Crispell – piano * Barre Phillips – bass * Paul Lytton – drums * Pierre Favre – drums
==References== {{Reflist}} {{Barry Guy}} {{Irène Schweizer}} {{Authority control}} Category:1998 albums Category:Barry Guy albums Category:Intakt Records albums