In the UK, that surge launched crossovers of bebop, psychedelia, blues, and r&b...And within that circle at the time, an increasingly sought-after young composer of inviting yet cannily improv-spurring themes was emerging, by the name of Karl Jenkins.
Now, half a century later, a landmark concert featuring large-scale versions of pieces that Jenkins - then a jazz pianist and reeds-player - wrote for Soft Machine and Nucleus...Welsh bass-guitar legend Laurence Cottle's formidable big band plays nine originals from Jenkins' jazz years, rearranged jointly by Cottle and the m.
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