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