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Release Date: 2019-04-13

Label: Rhythm & Blues Records

Johnny Burch is probably best-known for songs he wrote in 1963 for Georgie Fame such as “In The Meantime” and “Preach and Teach”. This was at a time when the boundaries between modern jazz, rhythm and blues and beat music were being broken down at such places as the Flamingo and the Marquee. For a few months, Burch was leader of a group that included several musicians who found fame in the blues and rock scene of the late 60s such as Graham Bond, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker. Tracks 1 to 3 and 15 to 18 of this CD features the earliest-known recordings of Bruce and Baker together in a live broadcast for the BBC from March 1963. Tracks 4 to 14 contains tracks from a session that Burch’s 1965 lineup recorded for Band Beat. Burch was never a major figure in the London jazz scene but this collection highlights his group’s unique role which acted as a bridge between modern jazz and the nascent British R&B movement.

Tracks 1-3 15-18; recorded March 1963


Tracks 4-14; recorded November 1965

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