Blue Effect & Jazz Orchestra

[Soleilzeuhl]

A friend provided me this link :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp04dPYmGPE

Don't know if that rock base of 70s psych/prog with over the top a ton of horns is prog or not..... but it is great !

[Baribrotzer]

Blue Effect is better known by its Czech name: Modry Efekt.

An interesting obscurity: Notice the portion of the guitar solo between about 4:00 and 5:30, where Radim Hladík chokes the strings and essentially plays his axe as a percussion instrument? Mirek from Uz Jsme Doma did/does exactly the same thing years later, in what I suspect is an intentional homage.

[zutul]

Their mutual album with Jazz Q is much better and far more interesting IMO

[mogrooves]

Their mutual album with Jazz Q is much better and far more interesting IMO

Agreed.

[Scrotum Scissor]

One of my fave Eastern European progressive bands.

Their "symphonic" rock phase - with three records between 1977-81 - remains some of the finest such music I EVER heard. Dramatic and passionate and sometimes unspeakably sombre (hey - this was 70s Czechoslowakia) - yet NEVER pompous or pretentious. And they sported Radim Hladik, progressive rock's definite equivalent to Peter Green.

I love them. Love them.

[Magic Mountain]

There was a box set released a few years back with all their albums (including the one with Jazz Q) and a bonus cd of rare tracks. It was well worth the money that I spent

[aith01]

One of my fave Eastern European progressive bands.

Their "symphonic" rock phase - with three records between 1977-81 - remains some of the finest such music I EVER heard. Dramatic and passionate and sometimes unspeakably sombre (hey - this was 70s Czechoslowakia) - yet NEVER pompous or pretentious. And they sported Radim Hladik, progressive rock's definite equivalent to Peter Green.

I love them. Love them.

Intriguing...

Seem to recall seeing a box set come out several months back. Maybe I should check them out.

[Bake 1]

The album this comes from is a stone classic IMO




I only have 3 M-Efekt albums, so am not by any means an expert, but can't wait to check out the 9 CD box which contains the Jazz Q and the Jazz Orch. recordings.

[Scrotum Scissor]

[mellotron storm]

Agreed.

That's my opinion as well. It's surprisingly experimental.

[Steve F.]

And they sported Radim Hladik, progressive rock's definite equivalent to Peter Green.

Good, intriguing comparison. I always considered the great Pekka Rechardt prog's Peter Green equivalent!!