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The Brotherhood of Breath did two Peel sessions, in 1971 and 1972, at a time when the DJ and his producer John Walters seemed sympathetic to new music from the British jazz scene, and Walters himself produced the band's first session.. It included musicians associated with bands Peel lliked, including Elton Dean, Marc Charig and Nick Evans, who had been members of Soft Machine and had played on the Softs' second 1969 session for Top Gear. But the Brotherhood of Breath grew out of the Chris McGregor Group, which consisted of the South African musicians mentioned above. They had auditioned for the BBC, drawing hostlie comments from the listening panel ("a cacophony", "full of inaccuracies") but were eventually allowed to record sessions for BBC jazz programmes. They also attracted the attent

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rdfs:comment	The Brotherhood of Breath did two Peel sessions, in 1971 and 1972, at a time when the DJ and his producer John Walters seemed sympathetic to new music from the British jazz scene, and Walters himself produced the band's first session.. It included musicians associated with bands Peel lliked, including Elton Dean, Marc Charig and Nick Evans, who had been members of Soft Machine and had played on the Softs' second 1969 session for Top Gear. But the Brotherhood of Breath grew out of the Chris McGregor Group, which consisted of the South African musicians mentioned above. They had auditioned for the BBC, drawing hostlie comments from the listening panel ("a cacophony", "full of inaccuracies") but were eventually allowed to record sessions for BBC jazz programmes. They also attracted the attent
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abstract	The Brotherhood of Breath did two Peel sessions, in 1971 and 1972, at a time when the DJ and his producer John Walters seemed sympathetic to new music from the British jazz scene, and Walters himself produced the band's first session.. It included musicians associated with bands Peel lliked, including Elton Dean, Marc Charig and Nick Evans, who had been members of Soft Machine and had played on the Softs' second 1969 session for Top Gear. But the Brotherhood of Breath grew out of the Chris McGregor Group, which consisted of the South African musicians mentioned above. They had auditioned for the BBC, drawing hostlie comments from the listening panel ("a cacophony", "full of inaccuracies") but were eventually allowed to record sessions for BBC jazz programmes. They also attracted the attention of record producer Joe Boyd, who, as he recounts in his book White Bicycles, signed them to his Witchseason Productions company and produced an album by them, Very Urgent, for Polydor Records in 1968. Although Peel isn't known to have played anything from it on air, he may well have heard it - especially considering that Joe Boyd's Witchseason stable also included artists he liked, such as the Incredible String Band and Fairport Convention. Joe Boyd also produced the first Brotherhood of Breath LP, which was released on RCA Records' "progressive" label Neon and promoted as progressive jazz-rock, rather than as jazz, and Chris McGregor was interviewed by a young Kid Jensen on his late-night Radio Luxembourg show Dimensions. The album wasn't a commercial success, but its most South African-sounding tracks, "Andromeda" and "Mra", picked up some radio airplay on Radio 1's Sounds of the Seventies shows, as they were close to the style of popular London-based African bands of the era like Osibisa. After that, however, the Brotherhood of Breath disappeared from Peel's playlists, and became a respected act on the British and European jazz circuits during the 1970s and 1980s. McGregor and his musicians are now recognised as pioneers of South African jazz, but the pianist himself is known to a wider public for his memorable solo on "Poor Boy", from Nick Drake's album Bryter Layter.

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