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 How to build a Pousse
Café:
This is not a drink for the novice bartender... however it takes
more patience than skill to get it right.
ounce Raspberry Syrup
ounce Anisette
ounce Parfait Amour
ounce Yellow Chartreuse
ounce Green Chartreuse
ounce Curaçao
ounce Cognac
Use a bar spoon to pour each layer into the serving glass,
exactly in the order listed. One layer should float upon another.
Recipe from DrinkStreet.com
Other options:
Equal Parts: Sloe Gin, Anisette, Green Creme de Menthe, Blackberry
Brandy
Equal Parts: Amaretto Almond Liqueur, Bailey's Irish Cream
& Cointreau
Equal Parts: Orange Curacao, Kirschwasser, Cognac & Green
Chartreuse
Equal Parts: Grenadine syrup, Creme de Cacao, cointreau, green
Creme de Menthe, white Creme de Menthe, green Chartreuse, cognac
Some bartenders like to set it aflame before serving... use
your own judgement.
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The Recipe...
Pousse Café is not a solo project.
Credit must go to the outstanding musicians who along with
Katya recorded the whole album in an astonishing seven hours.
Denny Ilett: Guitar, Arranger, Producer, Musical Director
Mike Gorman: Hammond Organ, Piano
Oli Hayhurst: Double Bass
Frosty Beedle: Drums
Additionally, the production team deserves their own round of
applause:
Engineered & Mixed by Keith James
Mastered by Tim Turan @ Turanaudio
Recorded at Big Squeak Studios on January 26th, 2004
Produced by Katya Gorrie & Denny Ilett
Album Photography by Lee Niel
Album Design by Nathan Brett Bowen, Left Design
 Biography - Denny Ilett
At the age of eight Denny began to play the trumpet. It may
have had something to do with the fact that his father Denny
Sr., who is one of the UK’s finest trumpet players, would
take pleasure in sneaking into his room at seven in the morning
to blow reverie.
In school, age fourteen, Denny, started arranging for the school
jazz band, and by sixteen discovered the GUITAR inspired by the
likes of Hendrix and Jimmy Page. By eighteen, he joined
a Django-esque group called Gypsy Jazz & played rhythm guitar
for several years. He then began freelancing,
leading several groups before he began teaching for the Oxford
County Music Service and conducting and arranging for the Oxford
University Big Band.
Denny eventually formed his own seventeen piece Big Band, conducting
his own arrangements while playing the guitar and singing like
ol’ blue eyes. In the mid nineties Denny returned to some
of his initial guitar influences and joined the Lewis Taylor
band signed to Island
Records. He then met the wonderful gospel singer from New Orleans,
Lillian Boutte and spent the next six years touring continental
Europe,
the U.S. and Australia, playing Jazz festivals, clubs and giving
workshops.
Denny has run a Jazz night in Oxford for twelve years. He has
written children’s songs, jingles, and commercials for
the advertising company Tom Dick&Debbie, and has toured with
the comedy duo MEL & SUE. He has worked with the likes
of Shirley Bassey, Steve Howe, Clark Terry, Red Holloway, John
Etherigde, Humphery Lyttleton,
Warren Vache and Jim Mullen to name a few.
Denny is now working, writing, recording and performing with
his partner, Jazz vocalist Katya Gorrie.
 Biography - Mike Gorman
Born in Sheffield, attended University College Salford 1990-1993
where he gained a BA(Hons) in Band Musicianship. He attended
the Postgraduate Diploma Jazz Course at the Guildhall School
of Music and Drama 1995-1996 and since then has been working
in London and throughout the UK. Has worked with US players Jimmy
Witherspoon, Bill Watrous, Ken Peplowski, Basie band alto player,
Brad Leali, Lanny Morgan. Has played with UK musicians including
Don Weller, Bobby Wellins, Martin Drew, Stacey Kent, Mornington
Lockett, Matt Wates, Gilad Atzmon, Andy Panayi, Jim Mullen, Guy
Barker, Dave O'Higgins, Trudi Kerr, Adam Philips, Jamie O'Donnell,
Alison Neale, Paul Jones and Rick Bolton. He has recorded 'The
Mood Was There' with the Holly Slater Quintet live at Ronnie
Scott's and also appears on The Kick Horns album 'The Other Foot'
(Lakeview), Peter Cook Septet 'That's Cooking' (Harlem), Richard
Bolton Band 'City-Life Ballads and Funk' (Babel. Mike released
his debut album "The Maze" on the label 33 Records
in March 2002. The album received much critical acclaim and was
named Jazz CD of the Month in the November '02 BBC Music Magazine.
http://www.mikegorman.net
 Biography - Oli Hayhurst
Since moving to London from Cambridge in 1995 to study at the
Royal
Academy of Music, Oli Hayhurst has worked in a wide range of
musical
fields, playing bass guitar, double bass and guitarron. He was
a founder
member of The Orient House Ensemble with Gilad Atzmon with whom
he toured
extensively in the UK and Europe. He is currently working with
saxophonist
Tim Whitehead and singer-songwriter Polly Paulusma. He has also
backed
artists as diverse as Melanie C, Cara Dillon, Bob Monkhouse and
Martin
Speake.
Some quotes about Oli Hayhurst;
" Good solid bass playing" - Bernard Purdie
"
...like a well oiled machine" - Dick Heckstall-Smith
"You play very musical solos, you bastard!" - Pete Jacobsen
www.olihayhurst.com
 Biography - Frosty Beedle
Born: September 18, 1961 in England
Career Highlights:
* Cutting Crew drummer 1985 - 1991
* Resident player on QE2 cruise ship
* Played on Zucchero's Miserere (1994)
* Played on Marie Claire D'Ubaldo (1994)
* Played on Never The Bride (1995)
* Played on Sarah Brightman's La Luna (2000)
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