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1968 John Surman

1 Obeah Wedding
2 My Pussin
3 Good Times Will Come Again
4 Carnival
5 Incantation
6 Episode
7 Dance

1969 Open Space (The Down Beat Poll Winners in Europe)

1 Maiden Voyage
2 Triple Play
3 Here's That Rainy Day
4 Winter Song
5 Nature Boy
6 Hello Thursday
7 Open Space
8 Ryoan-Ji

1 OO Bam Ba Deep
2 Billie the Kid
3 Yes, Oh Yes, You Wonderous Sun Kissed Maiden!
4 Ca Boom?
5 Y En a Marre
6 Undercurrent
7 New Peace
8 Ca Boom!

1970 How Many Clouds Can You See?

1 Galata Bridge
2 Caractacus
3 Premonition
4 Gathering
5 Ritual
6 Circle Dance
7 How Many Clouds Can You See?

1970 Our Kind of Sabi

1 Our Kind of Sabi
2 Zafe Ko Ida
3 Song for Martine
4 Out of the Sorcellery

1971 Tales of the Algonquin

1 With Terry’s Help
2 The Dandelion
3 We’ll Make It
4 Picture Tree
5 Tales of the Algonquin: I. The Purple Swan / II. Shingebis and the North Wind / III. The Adventures of Manabush / IV. The White Water Lily / V. Wihio the Wanderer

1971 Where Fortune Smiles

1 Glancing Backwards
2 Earth Bound Hearts
3 Where Fortune Smiles
4 New Place, Old Place
5 Hope

1972 Jazz in Britain ’68–’69

1 Bouquet Garni
2 Shepherd Oak
3 Bessie
4 Circles on Ice
5 Winter Song

1972 Westering Home

1 Mock Orange
2 Whirligig
3 JYNJYG
4 The Druid
5 Outside The Scorpion
6 Walrus
7 Hornpipe
8 Watershed
9 Rill-a-Ree

1973 Morning Glory

1 Cloudless Sky
2 Iron Man
3 Norwegian Steel — Septimus
4 Hinc Illae Lacrimae — For us all (Hence These Tears)

1 Escape From Waterloo
2 Three Against One
3 Still On the Run
4 Murphy's Dream
5 Fleeting Glances
6 Summer Hobo
7 Chalk Blue
8 Ominoso

1979 Upon Reflection

1 Edges of Illusion
2 Filigree
3 Caithness to Kerry
4 Beyond a Shadow
5 Prelude and Rustic Dance
6 The Lamplighter
7 Following Behind
8 Constellation

1981 The Amazing Adventures of Simon Simon

1 The Amazing Adventures of Simon Simon, Part I: Nestor’s Saga (The Tale of the Ancient)
2 The Amazing Adventures of Simon Simon, Part II: The Buccaners
3 The Amazing Adventures of Simon Simon, Part III: Kentish Hunting (Lady Margaret’s Air)
4 The Amazing Adventures of Simon Simon, Part IV: The Pilgrim’s Way (To the Seventeen Walls)
5 The Amazing Adventures of Simon Simon, Part V: Within the Halls of Neptune
6 The Amazing Adventures of Simon Simon, Part VI: Phoenix and the Fire
7 The Amazing Adventures of Simon Simon, Part VII: Fide et amore (By Faith and Love)
8 The Amazing Adventures of Simon Simon, Part VIII: Merry Pranks (The Jester’s Song)
9 The Amazing Adventures of Simon Simon, Part IX: A Fitting Epitaph

1983 Such Winters of Memory

1 Saturday Night
2 Sunday Morning
3 My Friend
4 Seaside Postcard 1951
5 On the Wing Again
6 Expressions
7 Mother of Light / Persepolis

1985 Withholding Pattern

1 Doxology
2 Changes of Season
3 All Cat's Whiskers and Bee's Knees
4 Holding Pattern I
5 Skating on Thin Ice
6 The Snooper
7 Wildcat Blues
8 Holding Pattern II

1 Memories
2 Monica Jane
3 Line Down
4 Seven
5 Closer
6 Once Around the Park
7 Hand Dance
8 For the Love of Sarah
9 Nothing Ever Was Anyway

1988 Private City

1 Portrait of a Romantic
2 On Hubbard’s Hill
3 Not Love Perhaps
4 Levitation
5 Undernote
6 The Wanderer
7 Roundelay
8 The Wizard’s Song

1990 Road to Saint Ives

1 Polperro
2 Tintagel
3 Trethevy Quoit
4 Rame Head
5 Mevagissey
6 Lostwithiel
7 Perranporth
8 Bodmin Moor
9 Kelly Bray
10 Piperspool
11 Marazion
12 Bedruthan Steps

1992 Adventure Playground

1 Only Yesterday
2 Figfoot
3 Quadraphonic Question
4 Twice Said Once
5 Just For Now
6 As If We Knew
7 Twisted Roots
8 Duet for One
9 Seven

1992 Ambleside Days

1 Lodore Falls
2 Wandering
3 Ambleside Days
4 Scale Force
5 Coniston Fells
6 Clapperclowe
7 Dry Stone

1 The Cat's Back
2 J.S.
3 Right Brain Patrol
4 Prelude
5 November
6 Rise and Fall
7 John's Waltz
8 Ogeda
9 Tuesday Afternoon
10 To Be
11 Come Rain or Come Shine
12 Big Music

1993 In the Evenings Out There

1 Afterthoughts
2 Portrait of a Silence
3 Soft Touch
4 Speak Easy
5 Interface
6 Alignment
7 Fair Share
8 Article Four
9 Married Alive
10 Spe-Cu-Lay-Ting
11 Tomorrow Today
12 Note Police

1993 The Brass Project

1 The Returning Exile
2 Coastline
3 The New One Two, Part 1
4 The New One Two, Part 2
5 Spacial Motive
6 Wider Vision
7 Silent Lake
8 Mellstock Quire
9 All for a Shadow

1995 Nordic Quartet

1 Traces
2 Unwritten Letter
3 Offshore Piper
4 Gone to the Dogs
5 Double Tripper
6 Ved Svørevatn
7 Watching Shadows
8 The Illusion
9 Wild Bird

1995 A Biography of the Rev. Absalom Dawe

1 First Light
2 Countless Journeys
3 A Monastic Calling
4 Druid's Circle
5 'Twas but Piety
6 Three Aspects
7 The Long Narrow Road
8 Wayfarer
9 The Far Corners
10 An Image

1997 Proverbs And Songs

1 Prelude
2 The Sons
3 The Kings
4 Wisdom
5 Job
6 No Twilight
7 Pride
8 The Proverbs
9 Abraham Arise!

1 Badhra
2 Kashf
3 Houdouth
4 Talwin
5 Waqt
6 Uns
7 Al Hizam Al Dhahbi
8 Qurb
9 Mazad
10 Kernow
11 Hulmu Rabia

1 The Nightingale
2 Ribbon Of Sand
3 Sombre Woods
4 Voice Shadow
5 It Could Be Hip
6 Don't Just Sing
7 SAS Blues
8 So Blue
9 Bluesand
10 Hidden Dreams
11 Secret Games
12 Fly Away

1999 The Dawn Sessions

1 Glancing Backwards
2 Earth Bound Hearts
3 Where Fortune Smiles
4 New Place, Old Place
5 Hope
1 Harry Lovett - Man Without a Country
2 Are You Positive You're Negative?
3 Wrested in Mustard
4 Professor Goodly's Implosion Machine
5 Master of Disaster
6 Don't Leave Me Like This

2000 Coruscating

1 At Dusk
2 Dark Corners
3 Stone Flower
4 Moonless Midnight
5 Winding Passages
6 An Illusive Shadow
7 Crystal Walls
8 For the Moment

2003 Free and Equal

1 Preamble
2 Groundwork
3 Sea Change
4 Back and Forth
5 Fire
6 Debased Line
7 In the Shadow
8 Free and Equal
9 Epilogue

2005 Way Back When

1 Way Back When, Part 1
2 Way Back When, Part 2
3 Way Back When, Part 3
4 Way Back When, Part 4
5 Owlshead
6 Out and About

2007 The Spaces in Between

1 Moonlighter
2 You Never Know
3 Wayfarers All
4 Now and Again
5 Winter Wish
6 The Spaces in Between
7 Now See!
8 Mimosa
9 Hubbub
10 Where Fortune Smiles
11 Leaving the Harrow

2008 Rain on the Window

1 Circum I
2 Stained Glass
3 The Old Dutch
4 Dancing in the Loft
5 Step Lively!
6 Stone Ground
7 Tierce
8 Circum II
9 Rain on the Window
10 Dark Reeds
11 O Waly Waly
12 A Spring Wedding
13 I'm Troubled in Mind
14 On the Go
15 Pax Vobiscum

2009 Brewster's Rooster

1 Slanted Sky
2 Hilltop Dancer
3 No Finesse
4 Kickback
5 Chelsea Bridge
6 Haywain
7 Counter Measures
8 Brewster's Rooster
9 Going for a Burton

2011 Flashpoint: NDR Jazz Workshop - April '69

1 Mayflower
2 Once Upon a Time
3 Puzzle
4 Gratuliere
5 Flashpoint

2012 Saltash Bells

1 Whistman's Wood
2 Glass Flower
3 On Staddon Heights
4 Triadichorum
5 Winter Elegy
6 Ælfwin
7 Saltash Bells
8 Dark Reflections
9 The Crooked Inn
10 Sailing Westwards

2018 Invisible Threads

1 At First Sight
2 Autumn Nocturne
3 Within the Clouds
4 Byndweed
5 On Still Waters
6 Another Reflection
7 The Admiral
8 Pitanga Pitomba
9 Summer Song
10 Concentric Circles
11 Stoke Damerel
12 Invisible Threads

-- Another Sky

1 Another Sky
2 South-Western Approaches
3 Spending My Time
4 Carpet Ride
5 Green Wood
6 Ruby My Dear
7 Scare 'em Up

-- Cloud Line Blue

1 Alone Song
2 New Spring
3 Eyeless in Movement
4 Jonathan
5 Empty Streets
6 Cloud Line Blue
7 Edge Piece

-- Transylvanian Folk Songs - The Bela Bartók Field Recordings

1 The Dowry Song
2 Up There
3 Violin Song
4 The Return
5 The Mighty Sun
6 What A Great Night This Is, A Messenger Was Born
7 Carol
8 Bitter Love Song
9 Transylvanian Dance

Single

-- Alors !!!

1 OO Bam Ba Deep
2 Undercurrent