KEEF HARTLEY BAND - British Radio Sessions 1969-1971 - FRA On The Air Edition - LISTEN - VERY RARE

An excellent, unofficial 80-minute item, released in 500 copies, from 1969-1971, coming from the BBC archives, more precisely from vinyls from the BBC Transcription Disc series (very rare and expensive), issued in its day in a hundred copies. The first three tracks were made live, last 40 minutes and are a class of their own! This is the best Keef Hartley Band you can imagine - especially the opening "Medley" - recorded by just five people, without a large brass section! Progressive, jazzy, powerful-sounding playing - much better than the music on the catalogue "Little Big Band"! Then several studio, radio recordings from 1969 (from the period of the first two albums), then two tracks from the period of the LP "Overdog", and as a bonus two recordings by Miller Anderson with the band, made just after his departure from KHB. The sound quality is excellent, because almost everything comes from mastered vinyls, and not, as is sometimes the case with radio recordings, from an average copy of a radio broadcast... The photo inside the sleeve comes from the Woodstock festival, and the band did not appear in the film (or on the record) because its manager demanded money for filming! C'est la vie... With the exception of two tracks (2 and 3) the whole is unreleased on CD! A MUST!