An album that got an issue years after recording is back again. The Graham Bond Organization – Live At Klooks Kleek vinyl.
It dates from 1964 and captures the band at its live best. It might have been the band’s debut album back in the day, but with the band signing to a major label around the same time, the idea of releasing a live album as their debut faded away.
As did the album, which was made by Giorgio Gomelsky and his sound-engineer Philip Wood at Klooks Kleek in West Hampstead, which was formerly a jazz club known as Klooks Clique (named after US drummer Kenny Clarke’s 1956 album), but later got a name as a rhythm ‘n’ blues club, as well as a jazz outlet in the 1960s.
The Graham Bond Organization were regulars on the club’s bill, and this album gives a flavour of the club’s sound, the era, and, of course, this particular much-loved band. The recording here got the band some attention and a recording deal, but it didn’t get an official airing until 1972.
Now it is back again, newly remastered audio restored and transferred at 96KHZ-24bit from the original BYG tapes acquired from Giorgio Gomelsky and released on limited edition crystal clear black smoke vinyl. There’s a new cover design too, ‘faithfully adapted’ from an original poster to resemble the band’s ‘lost’ third album.
You can pre-order a copy now on vinyl for £29.99. A CD version is also available for half the price.
Find out more at the Rough Trade website
Track listing:
SIDE A
Wade In The Water
Big Boss Man
Early In The Morning
Person To Person
Spanish Blues
What’d I Say
SIDE B
Dick Jordan Introduction
First Time I Met The Blues
Stormy Monday
Train Time
What’d I Say
