Jackson Heights was a British progressive rock band from England. It formed in 1970 after The Nice organist and pianist, Keith Emerson, decided to leave the trio to form another band, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, leaving bassist-vocalist Lee Jackson and drummer Brian Davison on their own. Thus Jackson then formed Jackson Heights, during their brief career which spanned four years they published four albums, King Progress, The Fifth Avenue Bus, Ragamuffin's Fool and Bump n' Grind. Brian himself formed the short-lived Brian Davison's Every Which Way, which released only one self-titled album, then joined Gong on tour. Lee Jackson and Brian Davison then reunited briefly with Swiss keyboardist Patrick Moraz as part of the trio Refugee which released only one self-titled album in 1974, before Moraz left to join Yes. Then in 2002 when Keith Emerson reformed The Nice for a short tour of a few concerts in England, Vivacitas a double live album, was then published. Origins Keith Joseph Anthony Jackson, born in Newcastle, first played bass with unknown bands like The Vandykes and The Invaders. But it was when he replaced Stuart Parks in the Gary Farr & the T-Bones formation in 1965, that he met organist Keith Emerson. Then the two will meet again at the end of 1966 to help the singer P. P. Arnold, ex-Ike and Tina Turner Revue, by forming a group which accompanies her on tour at the express request of Andrew Loog Oldham manager of the Rolling Stones, with the ex-Mark Leeman Five drummer Ian Hague and trumpeter guitarist David O'List. Hague would soon be replaced by Brian Blinky Davison, and the band would go by the name The Nice (the band's name came to them from a song by The Small Faces, Here Come the Nice) and will soon be noticed for his flamboyant style. The real first name of Jackson being Keith, in order to avoid any confusion between him and Keith Emerson, he is then nicknamed Lee. A left-handed bass player like Paul McCartney, he distinguished himself by using the VOX V248 bass looking like a teardrop, on which he would sometimes use a bow to make it sound like a cello, on songs like Hang on to a Dream by Tim Hardin, My Back Pages by Bob Dylan or even Intermezzo from the Karelia Suite by Sibelius. But following Emerson's departure to join Greg Lake and Carl Palmer