Boxset / Compilation · 2024
Tracklist
Disc 1
Rehearsal for the first gig at The Phoenix, March 1973
1. Variations 10:40
2. One, Two, Three… Go! 13:27
The Phoenix, Cavendish Square, London, March 1973
3. Vrene 16:41
4. Nice One 13:37
Jazz at the Banyan, Copperas Hill, Liverpool, 25 May 1973
5. First Set 21:47
Disc 2
BBC Jazz Club, 8 July 1973
1. Pay Now, Live Later 7:56
2. Blue, Just Like You 6:55
The Lauriston Hall, Edinburgh, 24 October, 1973
3. A Taste Of Ron-ey 12:17
4. Here Comes The Mallet Man 16:53
Capital Radio, London, April 1974
5. Nice One 20:44
6. Variations (1st Version) 9:13
Disc 3
1. Variations (2nd Version) 10:55
2. One, Two, Three… Go! 18:39
BBC Jazz Club on Radio 1 Sounds of Jazz, 23 June 1974
3. F.I.V.A. 8:11
4. Little Sheba 4:01
5. The Quick Put-down 5:18
BBC Jazz In Britain, 14 October 1974
Suite No. 6
6. Part I & II 15:28
7. Part III & IV 13:12
Line-up/Musicians
Gordon Beck – piano, electric piano, composer
Brian Smith or Stan Sulzmann – tenor & soprano saxophone, flute
Frank Ricotti – vibes, percussion
Ron Mathewson – bass, electric bass
Tony Levin – drums, percussion
About this release
Jazz in Britain JIB12SCD (UK)
On download, streaming and CD for the first time ever, the only Gyroscope album ‘One, Two, Three… Go!’ ever released, expanded with live and studio recordings from the archives plus a wealth of first-hand information about the band and many previously unseen images. Produced with the support of Gordon Beck’s sister Jude and the approval of the band members or their families.
Compiled from studio, live and rehearsal session recordings, made in 1973 and 1974, from the tape archives of Ron Mathewson and Gordon, and released with the support of the Gordon Beck Estate, the album provides a chronological audio history of Gyroscope’s formation and development, ie their ‘Progress’.
Thanks to snobb for the addition
