to found the trio Emerson, Lake and Palmer, The Nice disbanded and Brian Davison formed Brian Davison's Every Which Way who published a self-titled album, Jackson meanwhile goes up forming Jackson Heights. A band he wished to be more acoustic, in order to stand out as much as possible from the sound of The Nice. He will even leave the bass for the acoustic guitar for their first album, he will resume it later but the sound will always be lighter and less dominated by the organ. Band and beginnings The first formation of the group includes, in addition to Lee Jackson on 6 and 12 string acoustic guitars, harmonica and vocals, Charlie Harcourt (who was later found with Lindisfarne among others) on acoustic and electric guitars, harpsichord, mellotron, organ, piano and vocals, Mario Enrique Covarrubias Tapia on bass and Spanish guitars and Tommy Sloane on drums. The group releases a first album King Progress for the record company Charisma in Great Britain which had published the last two albums of Nice, in America however their discs will be distributed by Mercury Records. The group toured Great Britain and Europe during the spring and summer 1971 with an appearance on the program Pop 2 on the second French channel. But despite a revisited version of a Nice song, The Cry of Eugene with beautiful new arrangements, the King Progress album was a commercial failure. Thanked by Charisma, the group disolves, leaving Jackson alone but he does not allow himself to be discouraged and reform the group in a trio format, a formula which he knows well, this time by recruiting new musicians. Separation and Reunion After signing a new three-disc recording contract with Vertigo, Lee began looking for new musicians to reform the group. For the recording of the next album Fifth Avenue Bus, he recruits John McBurnie on vocals and acoustic guitar , Brian Chatton on keyboards, ex-Warriors with Jon Anderson and ex-Flaming Youth with Phil Collins. There was also at the start, Lawrie Wright on the piano, but the latter fell ill and could not finish the recording, he was still able to record the piano parts on ; Long Time Dying, Sweet Hill Tunnel, House in the Country as well as writing the arrangements of Autumn Brigade alone. Dave Watts also played piano on the song Laughing Gear. It is with thar new band that Jackson Heights