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| Brian Auger: ’The Godfather of Acid Jazz’ is back  The work of the legendary jazz, rock, funk Hammond B3 organ player, Brian Auger, is to be celebrated by Castle Music in a massive digitally remastered album reissue campaign over October and November 2006. Auger will also be undertaking a European tour to support the releases and will be performing three UK concerts in November. Dates include The Civic Hall in Stratford upon Avon (Nov 27), London Pigalle Club (Nov 28) and the Brighton Concorde2 (Nov 29).All eight albums will include new liner notes, rare photographs, original packaging, while selected albums will include rare bonus tracks. Brian is touring with a new version of Oblivion Express featuring his son Karma Auger on drums and daughter Savannah on vocals. The jazz rock virtuoso who gave us "This Wheel's On Fire", and hailed as the undisputed "Godfather of Acid Jazz", has not only toured with bands like Led Zeppelin and the Doors, but has collaborated with Jimi Hendrix, Eric Burdon and the Yardbirds. He flipped the lid on the British jazz rock scene, gave it new meaning, and pioneered the bands -Steampacket (featuring a young Rod Stewart), The Trinity (featuring Julie Driscoll) and the Oblivion Express. His diverse and distinctive fusion of jazz, rock and funk has been a massive influence on a lot of today's new bands. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Jazz News :: home page |