Thagomizer from Challenger Deep by Dave Manington's Riff Raff

Dinosaur love song Thagomizer was written for my kids when they asked me to write a tune about dinosaurs. I agreed because I feel dinosaurs are badly under-represented in jazz these days. As everyone knows, a thagomizer refers to the spiky bit on the end of a stegosaurs tail which it presumably used to fend off attacks from T-rex. Brigitte rose to the challenge to write lyrics about this prickly subject matter and perhaps some more modern issues as well..

Bassist and composer Dave Manington is one of the mainstays of the London jazz scene, a founder member of the Loop Collective, he has played with the likes of Mark Lockheart, Tim Garland, Iain Ballamy, Pete Wareham, Gwilym Simcock, Natacha Atlas and Yazz Ahmed. He's also in demand for a broad range of different ensembles, playing with musicians from everywhere from S. America to the Balkans.