Bare Wires is a studio album by John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, featuring Mick Taylor on guitar, Chris Mercer and Dick Heckstall-Smith on saxophones, Jon Hiseman on drums, Henry Lowther on cornet and violin, and Tony Reeves on bass. It was released in 1968 on Decca Records.[6] The album was the last John Mayall studio album to feature the name "Bluesbreakers"

Following the album, Mayall pared down the group from a seven-piece to a three-piece band and ultimately dropped the Bluesbreakers entirely. Reeves, Hiseman and Dick Heckstall-Smith went on to form Colosseum. - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjAvqtrsg7M&list=RDrjAvqtrsg7M&start_radio=1

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Pendulum by the Mike Taylor Quartet, released on Columbia in 1966 as part of their Landsdowne series.

Kieron Tyler wrote for the Arts Desk:

"...Taylor’s piano appears to be mathematically structured with, at times, a slight undertone edging towards Bossa Nova territory. What’s disconcerting is the lack of repetition of phrases, a constant roaming through a restricted scale and short sections of rhythmic punctuation on the keyboard. Melody and a linear through-line (following such, or returning to such) do not seem to be the point. On Taylor’s own material, beyond the drums, structure is provided by collating back-to-back rhythm-based sections; each of which is different from the other. It’s like free jazz, were it not improvised."

https://www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/music-reissues-weekly-mike-taylor-pendulum-trio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVAELZlXEHs&list=RDzVAELZlXEHs&start_radio=1

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Sometimes I forget what a great early hardrock album this is. Listened to it two times in a row.

Tempest - Tempest

(1973 – Japan, Stereo, Bronze – YZ-13-BZ)

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