Jack Bruce And His Lifetime
Interview by Robert Greenfield, Rolling Stone, January 1971
LONDON – It's the universal riff. When some kid in Laguna Beach finally stops driving all the neighbors crazy with it, a kid sitting by the ...

Chicago: Chicago Is…
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, May 1972
"IT'S RIDICULOUS really," said Chicago's composer and keyboard man, Bob Lamm, "Here I am in Hollywood, living in grand style and my parents are still in ...

Mahavishnu Orchestra: Music Of The Gods
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, June 1973
Mahavishnu Orchestra: Free Trade Hall, Manchester ...

John McLaughlin: Natural High…
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, June 1973
WITH A BAND playing music as tense and demanding as the Mahavishnu Orchestra's, one might be forgiven for expecting them to be (a) nerve wracked before ...

Blood Sweat & Tears: New Sweat
Report and Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, August 1973
THE WIND of change that spread through Blood Sweat and Tears a year ago is beginning to make itself felt at last. Their forthcoming album No ...

John McLaughlin: It Was Natural Evolution
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, February 1974
NEW YORK: Although John McLaughlin's decision to disband the Mahavishnu Orchestra came as a surprise in the closing weeks of 1973, further reflections point to a ...

Brian Auger: Straight Ahead Again
Interview by Michael Gray, Melody Maker, July 1974
BRIAN AUGER has been stomping round the commercial radio stations as part of his duty in promoting his latest album Straight Ahead by the Brian Auger ...

Hatfield & The North
Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, November 1974
IN A LAND and a business where quickfire hype and quickfire playing are adjudged almost twin brothers, Hatfield And The North are very much on the ...

Osibisa: Osibrock
Review by Chris Salewicz, NME, January 1975
IT'S JUST ANOTHER of the great Woodstock fallacies. Let's face it, aside from the Who, Havens, and lovable John B. Sebastian it was those nice kids ...

Supercharge: The Nashville, London
Live Review by Chas de Whalley, NME, September 1975
SUPERCHARGE CERTAINLY HAVE something to celebrate. They've just signed a five year record contract, and are probably hoping to be very rich one of these days. ...

Mahavishnu Orchestra: Inner Worlds (CBS 69216)
Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, February 1976
THE NAKED BODY of John McLaughlin, surmounted by a beaming face, hints, on the album cover, of purity, devotion and ...

Osibisa: Fairfield Hall, Croydon
Live Review by Chas de Whalley, NME, April 1976
ONLY CRITICAL SNOBBERY could deny Osibisa the distinction of having played one of the finest sets I have seen this side of Christmas. On this final ...

Colosseum II: Strange New Flesh
Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, June 1976
THERE COMES a moment during 'Dark Side Of The Moog', when the clamour of the strident arrangement fades away, and Jon Hiseman begins a simple, repeated ...

Weather Report: The True US Art Form
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, July 1976
"PEOPLE ARE beautiful everywhere," says Josef Zawinul. "I think a real open person, I don't care what music he is playing, is going to be saying ...

Blood Sweat and Tears: More Than Ever (CBS) ***
Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, August 1976
BST WERE one of the key bands of the late 60s who began to give rock a respectable musicianly image and yet I've always had my ...

John McLaughlin & Shakti: The Bottom Line, NYC
Live Review by Miles, NME, April 1977
"McLAUGHLIN LOOKS GOOD with long hair," said ...

Brand X: City Hall, Sheffield
Live Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, September 1978
DESPITE ALL your Weather Reports, Coreas, Dukes and such, Brand X remain the sum total of British jazz-rock to reach what might reasonably be termed a ...

Brand X: Bristol Hippodrome
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, September 1978
"BRAKES ARE locked. The steering is jammed!" Peter Robinson wrestled with the steering wheel as he drove like a Dalek around Bristol City centre last Friday. ...

Weather Report: City Hall, Newcastle
Live Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, October 1978
IF YOU spent an evening in the company of some guys and the only word they uttered was 'Goodbye' you might well think they were a ...

Weather Report
Interview by Ian Penman, NME, October 1978
THIS YEAR'S Weather Report is twice as nice as last year's. And doubly dodgy. ...

Jack Bruce: Jack's Sound of 1979
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, February 1979
IT SEEMED like the end of an era when we discovered, last week, that Jack Bruce and the Robert Stigwood Organisation have parted company. ...

Narada Michael Walden: Awakening (Atlantic)
Review by Pete Wingfield, Melody Maker, May 1979
SERENE MR WALDEN, Sri Chinmoy disciple and erstwhile drummer with the all-clad-in-white Mahavishnu Orchestra, surely knows which side his cosmic bread is buttered. Seems like the ...

James Blood Ulmer
Interview by Jason Gross, Perfect Sound Forever, April 1998
THOUGHT THERE'S BEEN hundreds and thousands of hotshots who vowed to take the guitar to the next level after Jimi Hendrix broke the doors open, James ...

Blood Sweat & Tears: Seeing Through The Past Darkly
Retrospective and Interview by Brian Torff, International Association of Jazz, 2005
HISTORY HAS a strange and highly selective memory. The past seems to lie in shadows with a filtered and distorted prism for a lens, and no ...