Floppy Boot Stomp: Head - with guest Jack Bruce

Sunday, September 13, 2020

Head - with guest Jack Bruce
"Live at the College of Art"
June 5, 1979
Glasgow, Scotland

Radio broadcast "Radio Scotland" @flac
on the "Jazz and That" program.

Very little info is available on the group "Head"

Jack Bruce, Dick Heckstall Smith, John Surman
I am not sure who is on drums.

Setlist

1 Hckhh Blues
2 One
3 Spirit
4 Timeslip
5 Kick Me Quick

the sound quality is near excellent
taken from hopboys Jack Bruce collection

aka-Jack Bruce with Head, Jack Bruces' Head and Jack Bruce Gets Head.

Thanks to the interwebs...

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swappersSeptember 14, 2020 at 8:48 AM
Wow this is astonishing! A true rarity it seemed and yet the quality now is astounding*. That and some folks doing the research on who exactly played on these sets makes this an essential listen and peruse for all the Jack Bruce fans out there. Thanks so much.
*I know I am like a stuck record but how do these folks find such clean recordings of this stuff from the sixties to rare as rocking horse poo sessions like this are now breathtaking in their quality. This is frankly just staggering . . . . . I'll shut up now!
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AnonymousSeptember 22, 2020 at 8:47 PM
There is a YouTube 'soundie' of the 3rd (self-released, 1977) Head album, "Blackpool Cool" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n43RpLg6N2Q

Otherwise, info is included in the obituaries of Bill Kyle - latterly impresario of Edinburgh's Jazz Bar - (eg) https://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/14843002.obituary-bill-kyle-musician-promoter-and-one-of-the-leading-figures-in-scottish-jazz/

Gordon Cruickshank may already have been BBC R Scotland's jazz presenter by the time of this gig.
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