Category: Graham Bond
[Review] The Graham Bond Organization: The Sound of 65 (1965)
This is what it sounds like when Ginger Baker is not the craziest member of your band. Bond plays like a man possessed.
[Review] The Graham Bond Organization: There’s A Bond Between Us (1965)
Their second album for Columbia in less than a year features more of the same, but with less impressive material.
The Graham Bond Organisation: “St. James Infirmary” (1966)
One of the last singles from the Organization, recorded after Jack Bruce had been fired from the band.
[Review] Grahame Bond: Love Is The Law (1968)
The first of two albums that Bond recorded in America for Pulstar Records, by witch time Bond had gone full warlock.
[Review] Grahame Bond: Mighty Grahame Bond (1969)
More mystical blues-rock originals featuring some of the hottest organ playing this side of The Doors.
[Review] Ginger Baker’s Air Force (1970)
Ginger’s afro-jazz experiment recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall with Graham Bond, Steve Winwood and Denny Laine.
[Review] Graham Bond: Solid Bond (1970)
A double-elpee collection of unreleased live and studio recordings from the Graham Bond group in 1963 and 1966.
[Review] Ginger Baker’s Air Force 2 (1970)
With most of the Air Force gone AWOL, Baker conscripted new members around Graham Bond and Denny Laine and recorded one more album.
[Review] Graham Bond: Holy Magick (1970)
Bond’s deepest dive yet into the mystic arts, featuring a magic ritual set to music and songs about The Tarot.
[Review] Graham Bond with Magick: We Put Our Magick On You (1971)
More songs about witches and druids. Not as off-putting as his last, but a full band is no substitute for a full deck.
[Review] Graham Bond Organization: I Met The Blues At Klook’s Kleek (2007)
A bootleg-quality live recording featuring the sound of the Graham Bond Organization in 64 before their first record.
[Review] Graham Bond: Live At The BBC And Other Stories (2015)
A four-disc, career-spanning set featuring pre- and post-peak live recordings that fill out the two proper Organisation discs nicely.