Long lusted after on the vinyl market, this is the first CD release of a re-mastered version of the original Dawn album. Dawn specialised in that glorious early 1970s period that found jazz Britannia melding post Bitches Brew electronic instrumentation, ‘free’ jazz and pop into a heady concoction. So this line-up were in the same school as John Marshall, an unfeasibly young Chris Laurence and Dick Morrissey, while the rhythm section would record with Henry Lowther on his solo debut Child Song, and of course Lowther is releasing new material even as we write. But Atlantic Bridge is more than a historical curio: Philip and notably Runswick (who'd go on to a rich career, notably with the Dankworths) bring a range of colours and clout to McNaught's arrangements. Runswick, especially, toggling between double and electric bass, often leads and when it's all getting a bit feverish, notably on an epic ‘MacArthur Park’, he underwrites the madness with control and power. There are longueurs and the arrangements can get knottily complex, but pleasures outweigh such nit-picking and on ‘Something’ they hit a high, notably again through Runswick.