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The Graham Bond Organisation
formed:
1963
disbanded:
1966
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British jazz/R&B band formed by keyboard player Graham Bond in 1963.

Bond, Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce had all been members of Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated. In 1963, all three left to become The Graham Bond Trio, with Bond by this time concentrating on organ, Bruce on bass and Baker on drums. They then expanded to a quartet with the addition of guitarist John McLaughlin and this line-up quickly became favourites around the clubs of London.

McLaughlin left the band in late 1963 and was replaced by saxophonist Dick Heckstall-Smith. It was at this point that they became the Graham Bond Organisation (although Baker was de facto leader). They played a jazz-influenced form of R&B and released several singles and an album over the next two years mixing imaginative cover versions with their own original material.

The band fell apart in 1966 when Bruce and Baker left to join Eric Clapton in Cream. Bond tried to carry on with Heckstall-Smith and drummer Jon Hiseman, but never recaptured the heights of his earlier work. In the late 1960s, Bond went to America for a year before returning to London where he worked with several bands including Ginger Baker's Airforce.

Bond committed suicide in 1974.


members:
Ginger Baker, Graham Bond, Jack Bruce, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Jon Hiseman, John McLaughlin
 
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