Title: Fine British R&B
Product review: This is great stuff, rather jazzier than most British R&B of the time, and with an unusual sound since there is no guitarist on hand. Bond and Dick Heckstall-Smith make one hell of a front line, and of course the rhythm section of Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker can't be faulted (Baker, in fact, plays with much more restraint than he did later with Cream). In a way it's surprising that Bond doesn't make more use of Jack's fine singing voice, but Bond is a good singer in a rather style openly imitative of Ray Charles (who is pretty obviously the main influence on this music). Graham Bond was a fine talent who unfortunately never found much commercial success and died too young. Fans of the British R&B scene of the '60s should not pass this disc by.
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