Real name: Robert Cromwell Anson

Effective period / Period of releases: 1968 - 1970

English drummer, singer, songwriter and record producer, born 20 October 1940, Sherwood, Nottingham. He started playing drums in his mid-teens before joining the RAF, where he played in a band that also featured alto saxophonist Trevor Watts, later Spontaneous Music Ensemble and Amalgam (2). It was at this juncture that Anson began to call himself Phil Kinorra in honour of his favourite jazz drummers - Phil Seamen, Tony Kinsey and Bobby Orr.