Heart 'N' Soul

Heart'n'Soul were a soul jazz rock band from Sydney Australia. They started out as a dinner-suited club/cabaret band in Sydney in 1967 but it soon evolved into Australia's first -jazz-rock 'big band' and the first local group to perform what has become known as jazz-rock fusion. Heart'n'Soul -- by then renamed "The Heart'n'Soul Hot Boogie Band" -- was one of the first acts signed to Festival's new progressive label Infinity, which was launched in January 1971. When they recorded their ambitious Hot Boogie Band album in late 1970, the group had expanded to twelve members, but sadly it had split by the time the album and its accompanying single "Hot Boogie Band" / "Earthrise" were released as part of Infinity's inaugural issue in January 1971. Original lineup, 1967: Leith Corbett (bass) Graham Lewis (drums) Percy Ohrling (sax) Philip Prideaux (horns) Rory Thomas (organ) Graeme Willington (vocals) Ian Willington (guitar) Lineup on Hot Boogie Band LP (1970): Bernie McGann (alto sax) Allan Blakers (alto sax) Keith Barr (tenor, sporano, oboe, piano) - ex Nutwood Rug Band, Quill Lindsay Farr (baritone, tenor, flute) Greg Foster (trombone, harmonica) Philip Prideaux (trumpet, French horn) Geoffrey Hapgod (trumpet) Ian Willington (electric & acoustic guitar) Arthur Eisenberg (bass) Dr Kandy's Third Eye, Company Caine Charlie ? (bass on "Yeah Go) Les Gough (bass on "Pigs") Richard Price (violin, tenor recorder) John Pochee (drums of "Yeah Go") Bruce Dwyer (drums) Eric Cairns (drums) ex Somebody's Image, Company Caine Larry Taylor aka Larry Duryea (congas, log) Graeme Willington (congas, bongos, vocals, leader) Other known members, 1969-70: Dale Cleary (organ) Bobby Gebert (piano) Geoff Houghton aka Naughton Craig Manuell (organ) Tony Nelson (drums) Geoff Oakes (sax) Percy Ohrling (sax) Jamie Rigg (organ) Phil Rigg (bass) Peter Sheehan (piano, organ) 1970 Rory Thomas (organ)