A Jacqueline Du Pré Recital
EMI 1982
EMI 1982
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Tomic601, I promised I’d get back to you with a Graham Bond Organisation recommendation after listening to the four albums of theirs I have, so here goes. I checked out some Youtube videos too. This band went through some permutations in it’s recorded history. It started out as a decent straight ahead jazz band around the very early sixties, up until ’63 maybe. That’s when John Mclaughlin played with them before Ginger Baker reportedly fired him. You can find some of that music on their "Live at the BBC and Other Stories" four album set, which covers that period, and more. You can find that material on Youtube, maybe the full box set. I listened to about an hour of it to hear the McLaughlin material. There are three more Mclaughlin cuts from 1963 on the album Solid Bond. In 1964, the line-up of Bond, Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce and Dick Heckstall Smith were recorded live twice, at Klooks Kleek (which I thought I had ) and the eponymous "Graham Bond Organisation" live at the Railway Station (which I do have). The second has a more horn oriented sound in a Mod vein. Next are the two legitimately released Graham Bond Organisation albums from 1965 with the same line-up, "The Sound of ’65" and "There’s a Bond between Us". The first is the better of the two and continues the bands mod blues-jazz-rock sound. It’s more horn oriented than let’s say early Who. You can hear the sound of Colosseum or the first Ginger Baker Air Force in there. The early Cream song Traintime was first recorded on "The Sound of ’65". They were also playing Ginger Baker’s Cream tour de force "Toad" then, but that doesn’t show up on either record. A curiosity from this period, a movie clip featuring this band on a British equivalent to "Beach Blanket Bingo", can be seen and heard on Youtube. It’s quite good. Try https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPEAK3RjfLk Last but not least, a later version of the band in 1966 is recorded on the compilation "Solid Bond", along with the material from 1963. By that time Ginger Baker had fired Jack Bruce and later quit himself to form Cream with Bruce and Eric Clapton. John Hiseman replaced him and did a credible job on "Solid Bond" before he and Dick Heckstall -Smith also departed to join John Mayall’s band, and later form Colosseum. The 1966 sessions were not released when first recorded. "Solid Bond" was a later compilation of that 1966 session and some earlier 1963 Klook’s Kleek material with McLaughlin, predating the Klook’s Kleek live album from 1964. All of it is decent. If I were you I’d start with the "Sound of ’65", but that might be a little too horn heavy for your taste. There’s a number of their recordings on youtube you might want to sample first as their output was so varied. There is another boxed set that contains their two major label releases plus numerous odds and ends which may be worth picking up if you’re looking to acquire a single Graham Bond Organisation set. That’s " Wade In The Water-Classics Origins and Oddities." Mike |
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