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The Graham Bond Organisation (GBO) were a British jazz/rhythm and blues group of the mid-1960s consisting of Graham Bond (vocals, keyboards, alto-saxophone), Jack Bruce (bass), Ginger Baker (drums), Dick Heckstall-Smith (tenor/soprano saxophone) and John McLaughlin (guitar).
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- Background
- The Graham Bond Trio / Quartet
- The Organization
- The Sound of ’65
- Singles
- Jack Bruce Exits
- There’S A Bond Between Us
- Late-Period Activity
- Final Months
- After Gbo
The Organization stemmed from Alexis Korner’s Blues Incorporated, a revolving-door sixties R&B ensemble with future members of the Rolling Stones, Manfred Mann, and Led Zeppelin. In June 1962, Blues Incorporated recorded R&B from the Marqueewith a nine-piece lineup that featured saxophonist Dick Heckstall-Smith (b. 1934) and bassist Jack Bruce (b. ...
The Graham Bond Trio made their live debut on January 28, 1963, at the Flamingo Club in Soho, London. That winter, they played recurrently at the Flamingo and Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club. In mid-April, Bond hired a fourth member, guitarist John McLaughlin, a fellow Korner alumni. The lineup of Bond, Baker, Bruce, and McLaughlin gigged through the spri...
They played their first show as the Graham Bond Organization on April 9, 1964, at London’s 100 Club, where they held a Thursday night residency with support by the Groundhogs. Their show on the 30th featured a third act, Steve Marriott & the Moments. Between May and July, they gigged almost nightly with recurring dates in Edmonton (Cooks Ferry Inn)...
The Graham Bond Organization released their debut album, The Sound of ’65, in March 1965 on Columbia. It contains fourteen short songs, including “Hoochie Koochie Man” and “Little Girl” plus four new Bond originals: “Spanish Blues,” “Oh Baby,” “I Want You,” and “Half a Man.” The once-aired “Train Time” is credited to ‘John Group,’ the collective ap...
On April 9, 1965, the Graham Bond Organization released “Tell Me (I’m Gonna Love Again),” a standalone a-side backed with “Love Come Shining Through,” both credited to John Group. GBO played spring–summer shows with The Tridents (5/23: Eel Pie Island Hotel), Sons of Man (7/3: Rendezvous Club, Oddfellows Hall, Portsmouth), and Gery L. Thompson & The...
On Saturday, August 7, the Graham Bond Organization played the 5th National Jazz & Blues Festival, a weekend event with sets by the Yardbirds, The Who, The Animals, The Moody Blues, Manfred Mann, The T-Bones, Georgie Fame, Spencer Davis Group, Dick Morrissey Group, Albert Mangelsdorff, and Steampacket (with Rod Stewart, Julie Driscoll, and Brian Au...
The Graham Bond Organization’s second album, There’s a Bond Between Us, appeared in December 1965 on Columbia. It contains twelve songs recorded prior to the recent lineup change, including one song apiece by Bruce (“Hear Me Calling Your Name”), Baker (“Camels and Elephants”), Heckstall-Smith (“Dick’s Instrumental”), and three by Bond: “Baby Can It...
In January 1966, the Graham Bond Organization performed three songs (“Wade In the Water,” “Only Sixteen,” “When Johnny Comes Marching Home”) for the radio broadcast Jazz Beat (aired 1/22). In February, GBO did a three-day package tour with The Who, Screaming Lord Sutch & The Savages, The Merseybeats, The Fortunes, and the Hamilton & The Hamilton Mo...
On January 13, 1967, the Graham Bond Organization performed four songs (“Long Legged Baby”, “I Couldn’t Stand It Anymore”, “When Johnny Comes Marching Home,” and “You Gotta Have Love Baby”) at Studio 4, Maida Vale, for the UK radio show “Rhythm & Blues 67′” (broadcast on February 6th). In February, GBO released their final single: “You’ve Gotta Hav...
Graham Bond went to the US, where he recorded the 1968–69 solo albums Love Is the Law and Mighty Grahame Bond on the LA soul label Pulsar Records. Back in the UK, he cut the 1970 Vertigo album Holy Magick and played on the two albums by Ginger Baker’s Air Force. In 1972, he teamed with Bruce’s lyrical partner, singer–poet Pete Brown (of the Battere...
The group then became The Graham Bond Organisation (GBO), while John McLaughlin was later replaced by Dick Heckstall-Smith on saxophones. Their album There's A Bond Between Us of October 1965 is considered the first recording of rock music that uses a Mellotron .
The Graham Bond Organisation - “The Sound of '65”. Graham Bond was recruited to Alexis Korner's Blues Inc. as an alto sax player, to replace the departing Cyril Davies, but he soon persuaded Alexis to let him sing and play Hammond Organ in the intervals, with the band's rhythm section, bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker.
By April, the group changed their name from the Graham Bond Quartet to the more dynamic Graham Bond Organization (also spelled "Organisation"). However, their earlier EMI deal hadn't really pleased the band, so the members auditioned for Decca at its West Hampstead facilities.
7 mag 2024 · In his mid-60s prime, Graham Bond was a true originator and one of the key figures on the British music scene. As the driving force behind the Graham Bond Organization, he dragged trad jazz out of its fusty confines and made it jump with heavy doses of blues and wailing R&B.
