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The J.J. Band
J.J. Band

Album UK 1971 on CBS label
Jazz and Rock (Jazz-Rock)

There has been of late a resurgence of good rock music coming out of Europe to challenge the already strongly eastablished groups on the home front. Not least of these new forces is the J.J. Band, a cosmopolitan collection of highly intelligent young men with a thorough knowledge of jazz which they have translated into their own individual brand of rock music. The nine piece band has an impressive list of musical qualifications to its credit. The Belgium members of the band all studied music at the Brussels' Conservatoire and the American member Douglas Lucas, a professor who taught music at Chicago University later met the band while teaching in Brussels. Finally Mike Lovell, the English member of the group was a member of the National Youth Orchestra. Altough from different parts of the globe they have combined together to form a very tight knit group producing their own more suttle rendition of the jazz/rock amalgam which has gone from strenght to strenght over the past few years. Recorded at Chappell Studio, London. March 1971

Musicians

	The J.J. Band , BE album by, arranged by
	Yvan De Souter b, voc, BE backing vocals, bass
	Bruno Castellucci dr, *1944 BE backing vocals, percussion, drums
	Garcia Morales dr, voc, BE lead vocals, drums, written by
	Guy Delo key, p, str, piano, trumpet, organ, hammond, piano, solo, written by
	Jean-Claude Clement sax, bs, saxophone, baritone & alto
	Ralph Benatar fl, sax, BE flute, saxophone, tenor, arranged by, flute, solo, written by
	Mike Lovell trombone, backing vocals, trombone, solo
	Douglas Lucas tr, fh, voc, trumpet, flugelhorn, flugelhorn, solo, written by, trumpet, solo
	François Weyer g, BE vocals, guitar, guitar, solo, arranged by, written by
	Brian Bennett dr, perc, *1940 GB arranged by, written by

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