Robert Smyth Jazz Band and the school's Soul Patrol group collaborated to produce the 17-track CD 'Czechin' Out', an album entirely recorded, mixed, engineered and produced by pupils and staff.

Recorded at the school and Harborough's Jubilee Hall in June and July last year, the album features some classic jazz and soul tracks from the last 80 years.

Songs covered on the album include the Jackson Five's Blame it on the Boogie, Sir Duke, by Stevie Wonder and Respect, originally written by Otis Redding but made famous by Aretha Franklin.

The album – named after the bands' tour to the Czech Republic in 2007 – is a follow-up to their 2005 debut work 'Jazzed Up & Souled Out' and is the result of hundreds of hours of hard work by pupils and staff.

Helle Petersen, musical director and head of music at the school, said: "It has taken a long time to create because everything has been done in our spare time.

"We spent hundreds of hours mixing it and getting it all right. The idea was to make it professional and we're very happy with the final result."

The bands, made up of A-level as well as GCSE students, sold around 50 of the albums while on tour in Barcelona this summer and will take copies with them as they take part in music festivals and competitions across the country.

It is also available from ABC Music, in St Mary's Road, Harborough and Pendulum Records and Discovery Music, both in Northampton Road.

To listen to a small excerpt from the album visit www.robertsmyth.leics.sch.uk.