GyroscopeFeaturing: Gordon Beck
Progress (3CD Set)
On download, streaming and CD for the first time ever, the only Gyroscope album ‘One, Two, Three… Go!’ ever released, expanded with live and studio recordings from the archives plus a wealth of first-hand information about the band and many previously unseen images. Produced with the support of Gordon Beck’s sister Jude and the approval of the band members or their families.
Compiled from studio, live and rehearsal session recordings, made in 1973 and 1974, from the tape archives of Ron Mathewson and Gordon, and released with the support of the Gordon Beck Estate, the album provides a chronological audio history of Gyroscope’s formation and development, ie their ‘Progress’.
Gordon Beck – piano, electric piano, composer
Brian Smith or Stan Sulzmann – tenor & soprano saxophone, flute
Frank Ricotti – vibes, percussion
Ron Mathewson – bass, electric bass
Tony Levin – drums, percussion
2-5, 2-6, 3-1 & 3-2 originally released on the Jaguar Cassette/ 1-1 & 1-2 Recorded at a rehearsal for the first gig at The Phoenix, March 1973. 1-3 & 1-4 Recorded at The Phoenix, Cavendish Square, London, March 1973. 1-5 Recorded at Jazz at the Banyan, Copperas Hill, Liverpool, 25 May 1973. 2-1 & 2-2 Recorded for BBC Jazz Club, 8 July 1973. 2-3 & 2-4 Recorded at The Lauriston Hall, Edinburgh, 24 October, 1973. 2-5, 2-6, 3-1 & 3-2 Recorded at Capital Radio, London, April 1974. 3-3, 3-4 & 3-5 Recorded for BBC Jazz Club on Radio 1 Sounds of Jazz, 23 June 1974. 3-6 & 3-7 Recorded for BBC Jazz In Britain, 14 October 1974. The official release date was changed as discs were delivered from manufacturer early. ℗ & © Jazz in Britain Ltd 2024
