BetaFunk

Karl Bingham of Pinski Zoo. Putting the Funk in Free Funk Jazz for over 30 years. One of my favourite bass players.

[quote name='soul deluxe' timestamp='1359552288' post='1956456'] i think this is as early as your maybe going to find early UK jazz Funk unless its underground stuff... i could be wrong.. i remember when this first came out, it was revalation for british jazz funk.... followed them ever since, but the a very different band now. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSvp3Xu1_Dw[/media] [/quote] Great band but here was a thriving UK Jazz Funk scene some time before this. Two other Jean-Paul 'Bluey' Maunick groups, Beggar & Co, Light Of The World as well as FBI, Central Line, Heatwave in their early days and Gonzalez before they went disco all flew the flag for UK Jazz Funk.

Pinski Zoo were a Nottingham based group that were more Jazz than Rock c1980. They had two electric bass players at one time and were really great live. This is a later clip but sums up the spirit of 80s Jazz Fusion............ http://youtu.be/2GF1D5FEDS8

The great Tony Williams.............. http://youtu.be/R_4vi09Tfgg

Many SB310s have been sold on here. Do a search and you find them. Also there are a couple on ebay right now.

[quote name='brensabre79' timestamp='1359654120' post='1958347'] Don't worry there will be more [/quote] .......but not many 1976 ones for £599

[quote name='DaveFry' timestamp='1359585992' post='1957277'] Colin Hodgkinson on bass . Back Door , a band from Yorkshire . Sax , bass and drums . [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE1GnnjS4Ms[/media] [/quote] I used to see Colin and his trusty black 1962 Fender Precision around pubs in Peterborough in the 70s. Great player with a playing style like no one else i've ever seen.

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1359581631' post='1957124'] I know it says 70's, and I did say 80's......but hey no problem, Music [ fusion] is Music [fusion] regardless of era... shame to let some goodies get away...... [/quote] ......and here is definitely a goodie from that period with Steve Lamb on Bass (Status headless if my memory is correct). http://youtu.be/405vKD76VZ4

How's this for some great Bass playing from the 1970s............. http://youtu.be/JFnzH5yGbws

I Wanna Hear Caravan With A Drum Solo!!!!!

[quote name='Spoombung' timestamp='1359582953' post='1957182'] A gig or a fish-filleting in Grimsby? Difficult decision. [/quote] Soul or Sole. It's a big decision!

[quote name='Spoombung' timestamp='1359582644' post='1957168'] Basschatters: if you go to another Basschatter's gig stand up and introduce yourself. Or wear a red carnation at least. [/quote] I will be wearing a white tuxedo with red carnation and will be standing under the clock with a copy of The Times under my arm.

[quote name='WhoNeedsYou' timestamp='1359579858' post='1957079'] I have read many a page about nice basses, but out of curiousity what are amongst the worst you have owned?..... [/quote] The ones that appear regularly on a popular auction site for many many times more that i paid for them in the 70s and sold them for, usually because they were crap.

[quote name='Spoombung' timestamp='1359582318' post='1957149'] You've got me thinking now... [/quote] Now i'm feeling bad about that. If i come to one of your gigs i promise to talk to you!

I always have a look. If i go to a gig i hardly ever talk to the band so how would you know if they went or not?

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1359581631' post='1957124'] I know it says 70's, and I did say 80's......but hey no problem, Music [ fusion] is Music [fusion] regardless of era... shame to let some goodies get away...... Garry [/quote] I agree! The trouble is that you've opened up the 80s and a whole load of albums that i have to search for in my house to play again!!!

[quote name='tedmanzie' timestamp='1359576243' post='1956992'] sounds good [/quote] Nucleus were up there with the best of them in the 70s but mostly overlooked the other side of the pond. In the 80s i saw Weather Report @Hammersmith Odeon and the same week saw the Steve Franklin Group with a similar line-up in a London pub. I can honestly say that the SFG would have blown Weather Report off the stage with their playing but who cared? One group had their name in lights outside Hammersmith Odeon while the other group just played in pubs.

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1359578859' post='1957052'] Although early 80's, two albums by Wayne Johnson - The fanatstic Jimmy Johnson on Bass.................. [/quote] The original post was re: 70s fusion but if you're venturing into the 80s then this was a very good period for British Fusion also.

[quote name='SteveK' timestamp='1359551827' post='1956443'] I'm not sure that what you're after actually exists. There were British artists such as Caravan and Soft Machine, but may well be a little too Proggy for your taste. Later in the 70s you had Bruford, Allan Holdsworth, Brand X etc but they may be a little too rocky for you. Seems what you're after comes mainly from the States, as your list of artists would suggest. Not sure there are any British Jazz Classics, of the kind you want, from that era. [/quote] I agree that most is going to come from the U.S. but there certainly were a few British Fusion classics of that era. Anything by Ian Carr's Nucleus, a couple of Gary Boyle LPs for example and there was plenty of musicians playing that kind of stuff around this period. I think that it just all got lumped into the jazz scene in the U.K. whereas the U.S. had it's own Fusion scene. There may not be many LPs that could be classed as British classics but there is a lot still out there that maybe should have been classics.

[quote name='tedmanzie' timestamp='1359548337' post='1956338'] I would also be interested to find out if there are any British jazz classics from this era? [/quote] Gary Boyle was (i think) born in India but this has lots of British musicians on it from 1977 and is certainly a Brit Jazz Fusion classic. http://youtu.be/0Tkoz_R4J3w

[quote name='tedmanzie' timestamp='1359548337' post='1956338'] I would also be interested to find out if there are any British jazz classics from this era? [/quote] What about this? http://youtu.be/lDfCkJ_LwcE

I've had this on LP since the 70s and have always liked it. I saw it on youtube so here it is. If you haven't heard it before. Enjoy! [media]http://youtu.be/JFnzH5yGbws[/media] Barre Phillips (Bass) Barry Guy (Bass) J.F. Jenny-Clarke (Bass) Palle Danielsson (Bass) Stu Martin (Drums)

I still dig out his Captain Fingers LP i've had since the 70s. Still good after all these years. P.S. It's Ritenour. Hence his nickname 'Rit'

[quote name='karlfer' timestamp='1359538826' post='1956179'] Is that with insurance? I find Interparcel as cheap as that, until you put the insurance on. [/quote] +1