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Keith Tippett Group. This is a medley of a number of tracks from the second album when the band were still essentially a rock band, but the music was rather easy to jazz up as illustrated here. The Soft Machine actually started up in the early ‘60’s and played free bebop at the Establishment Club in the heyday of satire. Their fame did not come ‘til later (about ‘67) when they were a rock band and hanging out with Pink Floyd (they were the backing band on Syd Barrett’s first solo album) and doing wild and hippyish things. For me Wyatt’s musical drumming is the core of the whole thing, and they became rock-jazz bores almost as soon as he left. Still, Mike Ratledge, the keyboardist, has made great musical strides writing TV advertisements (my fantasy is that he wrote the bran flakes tune - “They’re tasty, tasty, very, very, tasty, they’re very tasty”).
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