Hatfield and the North were an English jazz-rock band that released the 1974/75 Virgin albums Hatfield and the North and The Rotter’s Club. They were formed by ex-members of Caravan, Delivery, and Matching Mole. Keyboardist Dave Stewart (Arzachel, Egg, Khan) completed the band. Their backing vocalists, The Northettes, included singer Barbara Gaskin (Spirogyra). Three-fourths of Hatfield […]
Egg was an English jazz-psych trio that released the 1970/71 Deram albums Egg and The Polite Force. After keyboardist Dave Stewart signed to Virgin with Hatfield and the North, he reunited Egg for the 1974 album The Civil Surface. Stewart later played in National Health and Bruford. Members: Dave Stewart (organ, piano, keyboards, synthesizer), Mont […]
National Health was an English avant-jazz/rock band from Canterbury that released a self-titled album on Affinity in 1978, followed that same year by Of Queues and Cures on parent-label Charly. The band featured three-fourths of Hatfield and the North — keyboardist Dave Stewart, guitarist Phil Miller, and drummer Pip Pyle — with a revolving line […]
Khan was an English space-rock band that released the album Space Shanty on Deram in 1972. This was the second recorded band with guitarist Steve Hillage and keyboardist Dave Stewart, who interacted earlier in Arzachel. Bassist Nicholas Greenwood released his only solo album, Cold Cuts, the same year as Space Shanty. A subsequent, unrecorded Khan […]
D.S. Al Coda is the third and final album by English jazz-rock ensemble National Health, released in 1982 Europa. The album consists of material composed by early member Alan Gowan, who passed from leukemia the prior year. Tracklist: A1. “Portrait of a Shrinking Man” (5:35) A2. “TNTFX” (3:11) A3. “Black Hat” (4:52) A4. “I Feel […]
Dogged by Dogma is a 1982 album by one-off project The Ghoulies, with songs written by Welsh multi-instrumentalist Charlie Summers and released on his own Lounging Records label. Of the album’s nine tracks, six feature a studio collective that includes Hatfield and the North/National Health alumni Dave Stewart and Pip Pyle. Tracklist: A1. “Listening to […]
One of a Kind is the second album by English jazz-rock quartet Bruford, released in 1979 on EG Records. Tracklist: A1. “Hell’s Bell’s” (3:32) A2. “One of a Kind, Part 1” (2:20) A3. “One of a Kind, Part 2” (4:00) A4. “Travels With Myself – and Someone Else” (6:12) A5. “Fainting in Coils” (6:23) B1. […]
Feels Good to Me is the debut album by English jazz-rock quartet Bruford, released in 1978 on EG Records. Tracklist: A1. “Beelzebub” (3:16) A2. “Back to the Beginning” (7:09) A3. “Seems Like a Lifetime Ago (Part One)” (2:30) A4. “Seems Like a Lifetime Ago (Part Two)” (4:25) A5. “Sample and Hold” (5:12) B1. “Feels Good […]
Of Queues and Cures is the second album by English jazz-rock ensemble National Health, released in 1978 on Charly. Tracklist: A1. “The Bryden 2-Step (For Amphibians) Part 1” (8:45) A2. “The Collapso” (6:09) A3. “Squarer for Maud” (11:30) B1. “Dreams Wide Awake” (8:36) B2. “Binoculars” (11:30 — 1:00-5:10-7:44-8:57-11:40) B3. “Phlâkatön” (0:08) B4. “The Bryden 2-Step […]
The Ghoulies was an avant-jazz/rock project assembled by Welsh musician Charlie Summers with an assortment of U.K. musicians, including Hatfield and the North/National Health alumni Dave Stewart and Pip Pyle. The project yielded the album Dogged by Dogma, released on Summers’ Lounging Records label in 1982. Members: Charlie Summers (guitar, vocals, flageolet, organ), Dave Stewart […]
The Rotters’ Club is the second of two albums by Canterburian jazz-rock ensemble Hatfield and the North, released in 1975 on Virgin. Tracklist: A1. “Share It” (3:02) A2. “Lounging There Trying” (3:10) A3. “(Big) John Wayne Socks Psychology on the Jaw” (0:46) A4. “Chaos at the Greasy Spoon” (0:30) A5. “The Yes No Interlude” (7:02) […]
Hatfield and the North is the first of two albums by the namesake Canterburian jazz-rock ensemble, released in 1974 on Virgin. Tracklist: A1. “The Stubbs Effect” (0:22) A2. “Big Jobs (Poo Poo Extract)” (0:36) A3. “Going Up to People and Tinkling” (2:25) A4. “Calyx” (2:45) A5. “Son of ‘There’s No Place Like Homerton’” (10:10) A6. […]
National Health is the debut album by the namesake English jazz-rock ensemble, recorded in 1977 and released in February 1978 on Affinity/Passport. Tracklist: A1. “Tenemos Roads” (14:43) A2. “Brujo” (10:19 — :01-4:05-10:10) B1. “Borogoves (Excerpt From Part 2)” (4:16) B2. “Borogoves (Part 1)” (6:37) B3. “Elephants” (14:37) Credits: Dave Stewart — organ, piano, electric piano, […]
Gradually Going Tornado is the third album by English jazz-rock quartet Bruford, released in 1980 on EG Records. Tracklist: A1. “Age of Information” (4:41) A2. “Gothic 17” (5:07) A3. “Joe Frazier” (4:41) A4. “Q.E.D.” (7:46) B1. “The Sliding Floor” (4:58) B2. “Palewell Park” (3:57) B3. “Plans for J.D.” (3:50) B4. “Land’s End” (10:20) Credits: Dave […]
Egg is the debut album by the namesake psychedelic jazz-rock trio, released in 1970 on Deram. Tracklist: A1. “Bulb” (0:09) A2. “While Growing My Hair” (3:53) A3. “I Will Be Absorbed” (5:10) A4. “Fugue in D Minor” (2:46) A5. “They Laughed When I Sat Down at the Piano…” (1:17) A6. “The Song of McGillicudie the Pusillanimous […]
The Polite Force is the second album by English jazz-rock trio Egg, released in 1971 on Deram. Tracklist: A1. “A Visit to Newport Hospital” (8:25) A2. “Contrasong” (4:21) A3. “Boilk” (9:23) (inc. Bach: Durch Adams Fall ist ganz verderbt) B. “Long Piece No. 3.” (20:42) —i. Part One —ii. Part Two —iii. Part Three —iv. […]
Bruford was an English jazz-rock supergroup that released four albums on Polydor/EG between 1978 and 1980. The band was headed by ex-Yes drummer Bill Bruford and featured former Tempest/Soft Machine guitarist Allan Holdsworth and one-time Egg/Hatfield keyboardist Dave Stewart. The supergroup’s first album, Feels Good to Me, was recorded amid Bruford and Holdsworth’s involvement in […]
