Soft Machine
Any Soft Machine fans out there? Well you should listen to Jazz Up Late tomorrow night at 10.30 on ABC Classic FM. They have a never before released live performance. From the ABC site:
Friday 5 November, 10.30pm
Soft Machine at the Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) Jazz Workshop, Hamburg, Germany, May 17th, 1973.
Soft Machine was one of the greatest of British avant/jazz-rock bands to emerge from the ’60s “Canterbury Scene”, and its work continues to influence even today’s experimentalists.
This never-before released recording is from the band’s television broadcast on the renowned German program and is the only existing live documentation of this particular incarnation of the ever-changing Soft Machine line-up, which featured:
Karl Jenkins – oboe, baritone sax, soprano sax & electric piano
Mike Ratledge – electric piano & organ
Roy Babbington – electric bass
John Marshall – drums
Plus special guests:
Art Themen – soprano & tenor sax
Gary Boyle – electric guitar
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