An Affinity for Jazz-Rock

If You Live for the sound of great music and you have an Affinity for Jazz-Rock, then the sweet sound of Affinity could be just the band for you. They only recorded one eponymously-titled album during their brief lunchtime in the spotlight, but Affinity are now almost as legendary as the Hound of The Baskervilles. As well as the aforementioned 1970 studio album, Affinity also recorded an album of Live Instrumentals in 1969 when singer Linda Hoyle was recuperating from a throat operation. There's also an album going back to Affinity's early Origins in the British Jazz clubs during the years 1965-67, as well as a later album of recordings from the years 1971-1972. All of these various compilations wouldn't see release until over 30 years later in the early 21st century, and interestingly, they all featured the same identical album cover tinted in various colours, with the exception of If You Live, recorded in 1968-1970.

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - August 24 2020 at 16:03

Affinity - very solid album. Never knew what happened to keyboardist Lynton Naiff. Great olayer.
Drummer Grant Serpell ended up in Sailor (Girls, Girls, Girls) !!   Mo Foster became a session bassist for many artists, including Tony Banks.

I just today saw that Esoteric is releasing a 2-album compilation of Linda Hoyle (singer for Affinity) in September with the music for the first album written primarily by Karl Jenkins.  Might give that a shot, although I was always more of a Ratledge, Hopper, Dean fan than a Jenkins fan.  Still, I plan to look up some youtube music of Pieces of Me before it comes out to see if I want to invest. 

I'm a lover of all things jazz rock, and this is excellent stuff!

Solid album...sadly I sold the vinyl at a record show a few years ago to buy something else......I can't even recall what it was and now I wish I had the original vinyl back.

dr wu23 wrote: Solid album...sadly I sold the vinyl at a record show a few years ago to buy something else......I can't even recall what it was and now I wish I had the original vinyl back. I need to stop selling things to get other things....I've done that over the years with several collectable pieces.

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - August 06 2020 at 08:12

dr wu23 wrote: Psychedelic Paul wrote: dr wu23 wrote: Solid album...sadly I sold the vinyl at a record show a few years ago to buy something else......I can't even recall what it was and now I wish I had the original vinyl back. I need to stop selling things to get other things....I've done that over the years with several collectable pieces. I used to give CD albums away too, and then wished I hadn't. I bought ELP's debut album from a charity shop for £1 again yesterday after giving it away years ago to another charity shop. I had the US Paramount vinyl version.....if I had the Brit Vertigo one I wouldn't have sold it.

^ ELP's Black Moon album was recommended to me recently, although I'll probably give their Love Beach album a miss, where ELP are dressed as the "Beach Gees" on their unintentionally funny album cover.

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - August 06 2020 at 09:56

^ I think Love Beach has now become a TV series.

Tom Ozric wrote: Love Beach does exist as a place - whilst on hols in The Bahamas, going to some place just out from Nassau I saw a sign that said Love Beach and chuckled to myself. Must be near Compass Point studio.