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...oh yes indeed, very much indeed this is some nice gear from the mods early forays into the rock'n'roll game...this silver coaster is well sprite and chipper with his first demos from 64, some solo singles, duet with pat arnold and the eventual smash hit with python lee jackson...real hep and groovy, real nice exploitational hodge podge, the way we like it...
...the question is, how many times has the planet gone round the sun and the answer is less times that these demos have been reissued by every exploito / huckster label in every land for nigh on 4 decades...recorded at the marquee studios in olde london town they capture this blue eyed soul club pop revue before they imploded due to top heavy egos...this is a groovy 30 minutes of westend R&B that whizzed hepsters and first class tickets will get a buzz off...well spiffing...
...legally dodgy late six oh LP cash in on jools quick collision and largely unforseen encounter with the general citizens hit parade, this wax is made up of the giorgio gomelsky sessions from 1965 when jools was finding herself groomed for stardom, if only as a fleeting popstar, (they did get an airing on the parlophone label) plus to make up the time as always a couple of steampacket numbers...nice club mod pop/big beat for hep tickets to dig...very cool and magnificently chipper...
...freakbeat and flower power spelled the death of R&B in hip cat urban locales as a live enjoyment, for now audiences somehow sensed there might be something more to the 'new' live scene as indicated by floyd, soft machine, crazy world of arthur brown, deviants who had all lately been playing havoc with temporal and optical vibes... jools, auge and the trinity sensed some jazz that was in their club sounds they were knocking out could be brought more to the fore and as a consequence helped fashion the cerebral/beatnik end of what came to be known as prog rock...
...ace slab of post club R&B/jazzbo proto prog stylings...very sussed and hip workout that caught a lot of cats attention and not just because of 'aceface' jools getting plenty of ink from underground and cubes alike...came at the right time when the new vibes and counter cultural unrest were rushing the whole planet...jools in great voice, funky keyboards and super solid backing make this one double wax worthy of such extravagance...
...one of the handfull of combos that have come to define the albion late sixties sound that was the logical end of the R&B explosion that had happened eight years earlier...combining post R&B / club soul / hornrock and riffing jazz inflected hard rock they fell between jools / auger on the proggy jazzbo front and pesky gee! on the post club soul tip...this end of the progressive rainbow didn't really get past 1970 / 71 before most of its practitioners fell away to mainstream / 'funky' jazz in continental cities or into paid pop group/session slog...this being the only LP released during the life of this combo, it's a great example of the above hype and contains a nice and cool workout on bob's 'watchtower' jam...
...top form and tasty swirly post club-soul horn rock...some nice R&B shouting from the femme vocalist take this just beyond the normal prog sound and keep it well in the london westend jazz vibe...some cool covers and original material make for a good 40 minute lobe full with more going on than it first appears...very nice and a sound that just can't be replicated any more (probably due to 'progress' in studio technique)...
...oh yes indeed, very much indeed this is some nice gear from the mods early forays into the rock'n'roll game...this silver coaster is well sprite and chipper with his first demos from 64, some solo singles, duet with pat arnold and the eventual smash hit with python lee jackson...real hep and groovy, real nice exploitational hodge podge, the way we like it...
...the question is, how many times has the planet gone round the sun and the answer is less times that these demos have been reissued by every exploito / huckster label in every land for nigh on 4 decades...recorded at the marquee studios in olde london town they capture this blue eyed soul club pop revue before they imploded due to top heavy egos...this is a groovy 30 minutes of westend R&B that whizzed hepsters and first class tickets will get a buzz off...well spiffing...
...legally dodgy late six oh LP cash in on jools quick collision and largely unforseen encounter with the general citizens hit parade, this wax is made up of the giorgio gomelsky sessions from 1965 when jools was finding herself groomed for stardom, if only as a fleeting popstar, (they did get an airing on the parlophone label) plus to make up the time as always a couple of steampacket numbers...nice club mod pop/big beat for hep tickets to dig...very cool and magnificently chipper...
...freakbeat and flower power spelled the death of R&B in hip cat urban locales as a live enjoyment, for now audiences somehow sensed there might be something more to the 'new' live scene as indicated by floyd, soft machine, crazy world of arthur brown, deviants who had all lately been playing havoc with temporal and optical vibes... jools, auge and the trinity sensed some jazz that was in their club sounds they were knocking out could be brought more to the fore and as a consequence helped fashion the cerebral/beatnik end of what came to be known as prog rock...
...ace slab of post club R&B/jazzbo proto prog stylings...very sussed and hip workout that caught a lot of cats attention and not just because of 'aceface' jools getting plenty of ink from underground and cubes alike...came at the right time when the new vibes and counter cultural unrest were rushing the whole planet...jools in great voice, funky keyboards and super solid backing make this one double wax worthy of such extravagance...
...one of the handfull of combos that have come to define the albion late sixties sound that was the logical end of the R&B explosion that had happened eight years earlier...combining post R&B / club soul / hornrock and riffing jazz inflected hard rock they fell between jools / auger on the proggy jazzbo front and pesky gee! on the post club soul tip...this end of the progressive rainbow didn't really get past 1970 / 71 before most of its practitioners fell away to mainstream / 'funky' jazz in continental cities or into paid pop group/session slog...this being the only LP released during the life of this combo, it's a great example of the above hype and contains a nice and cool workout on bob's 'watchtower' jam...
...top form and tasty swirly post club-soul horn rock...some nice R&B shouting from the femme vocalist take this just beyond the normal prog sound and keep it well in the london westend jazz vibe...some cool covers and original material make for a good 40 minute lobe full with more going on than it first appears...very nice and a sound that just can't be replicated any more (probably due to 'progress' in studio technique)...
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