S. O. S. by S. O. S., released on Ogun in 1975

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This was a major, and controversial, event at its time. These were perhaps the three foremost saxophonists on the British jazz scene; they were all world-class players and at least one of them was acknowledged as the greatest living exponent of his principal instrument...

...the album's highlight, and one of my favourite tracks recorded by anyone on Ogun, "Goliath," featuring a wholly-liberated Osborne blowing ecstatically over Surman's cathedral of synthesisers (and electric piano?) and Skidmore's punk rock drums. It reminds me of Van Der Graaf Generator or the Dean/Ratledge/Hopper/Wyatt Soft Machine at their most fervent. Towards track's end, Surman's keyboards begin to ascend into the heavens, and there is a holy poignancy...

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#NowPlaying Harry Miller's ISIPINGO - Family Affair (Ogun, UK 1977).

Harry Miller's Anglo/South African sextet with Mike Osborne, Keith Tippett, Louis Moholo, Mark Charig & Malcolm Griffiths.

Awesome record.

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