The Keith Tippett Group: You Are Here… I Am There

Rating: ★★★

Record and Artist Details

Dedicated To You But You Weren't Listening

Musicians:

Tony Uta (perc)
Alan Jackson (d)
Gary Boyle (g)
Nick Evans (tb)
Keith Tippett (p, prepared p, zither)
Mark Charig (c)
Phil Howard (d)
Elton Dean (as, saxello)
Roy Babbington (b)
Robert Wyatt (v)
Jeff Clyne (b)
Bryan Spring (d, perc)

Label:

Esoteric

April/2013

RecordDate:

1968-1970

Musicians:

Tony Uta (perc)
Alan Jackson (d)
Gary Boyle (g)
Nick Evans (tb)
Keith Tippett (p, prepared p, zither)
Mark Charig (c)
Phil Howard (d)
Elton Dean (as, saxello)
Roy Babbington (b)
Robert Wyatt (v)
Jeff Clyne (b)
Bryan Spring (d, perc)

Label:

Esoteric

April/2013

RecordDate:

1968-1970

Originally released on the same dizzying label (Vertigo) as Black Sabbath, graced by a Roger Dean cover, and with Tippett already ensconced in the Fripp/Crimson band, it's easy to dump Dedicated To You in the jazz-rock camp. But there's an energy, not just born of youth (though, lumme, these guys were young), an almost naive relish to experiment that is decidedly all jazz in attitude. Dedicated is a gas, to use the parlance of the day; OK, it is a little, shall we say, unboundaried, but the group revel in their uniquely Brit noise, especially when Evans' righteous chapel trombone yaws over Tippett's innate lyricism. You Are Here, the band's much delayed debut, doesn't have the same shabbaz, but it does have Clyne and Jackson who remain rock solid. And interesting to note it was largely written on an Arts Council grant: heady days indeed. Not even Ozzy Osbourne got one of those.

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