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The “PROG” Era

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Frank Zappa Freak Out! (June) We’re Only In It For Uncle Meat (Apr); Weasels Ripped My Fiilmore East - June Just Another Band Over-Nite Sensation (‘) One Size Fits All Zoot Allures (Oct) FZOZ Sleep Dirt (Jan); (April); Lumpy The Money (Mar); Mother Mania (Mar); Flesh (Aug); 1971 (Aug); 200 From L.A. (Mar); (Sept); Zappa/ (Mar); Roxy & (June); (Mar); Studio Tan Gravy (Aug) Cruising With (Oct) Chunga’s Revenge Motels (Oct) Waka/Jawaka (July); Mahavishnu Tour (?) Elsewhere (July) (Oct) (Sept) (Mar); Orchestral Rueben & The Jets (Oct); Burnt Weeny The Grand Wazoo Favorites (May); (Nov) Sandwich (Feb) (Nov) Joe’s Garage Act I (Nov); Joe’s Garage Act II & III (Nov)

Captain Beefheart (Sept) Lick My Decals Off, Mirrorman (May, Unconditionally Bongo Fury (Oct) Shiny Beast (Bat Doc At the Radar & (Oct) (Jun) Baby (Dec) rec. 1967) (Jan); Gauranteed (Apr); Chain Puller) (Nov) Station (Aug); (Oct) Bluejeans & (Sept 1982) Moonbeams (Nov)

Miles Davis Neferititi (Jan); (Apr); Jack Johnson (Recorded Feb, Big Fun (recorded Feb - Apr (Jun) (June); Filles De released Jul) 70, released Feb Killimanjaro (Dec) 71); Live - Evil (Released Nov ’71, Recorded Feb - Nov ’70)

Caravan Caravan (Oct) If I Could Do It All In The Land of Gray (May) For Girls Who Grow Caravan & The New Cunning Stunts Blind Dog at St. (Jul) The (Oct) Over Again… (Sept) and Pink (Apr) Plump In the Night Symphonia (Apr) (Jul) Dunstans (Apr) (Oct)

Soft Machine The Volume Two (Sept) Third (June) Fourth (Feb) Fifth (July) Sixth (Feb); Seventh Bundles (Mar) Soft (June) Alive & Well: (Dec) (Oct) Recorded in Paris (Mar)

Emerson, Lake & : Thoughts The Nice: Nice The Nice: Five (Jun) Trilogy (Jul) Welcome Back My (Nov) In Concert (Nov) Palmer of the Emerlist (Sept) Bridges Suite (Jun) Pictures at an (Nov) Friends To The (Mar); Works Davjack (Mar); Elegy (Apr); Exhibition (Dec) Show That Never Volume 2 (Nov) Emerson, Lake And Ends.. (Aug) Ars Longa Vita Palmer: Emerson, Brevis (Nov) Lake And Palmer (Nov)

Jethro Tull (Oct, UK) This Was (Feb US); Benefit (Apr UK, Aqualung (Mar) Living In The Past War Child (Oct) A Minstel In The Too Old To Rock n’ Songs From The (Apr Stormwatch (Sept) A (Aug) Stand Up (July UK/ May US) (Jun UK, Oct US) (July) Gallery (Sept) Roll: Too Young To Wood (Feb) Bursting Out (Sept) Europe, Sept- US/ Die! (Apr UK, May Elsewhere) US)

Chick Corea/Return Tones for Jones Is (Jun) The Song of Sundance (Feb); Where Have I (Feb) (Jan) An Evening With Delphi I (Jan); (Mar); to Forever Bones (Apr); Now Singing (Feb); (Jan); Known You Before? (Apr); My Spanish & CoreaHancock In Concert, Zurich, He Sings, Now He A.R.C. (Apr); Piano Improvisations Vol 2 (Sept) Heart (Dec); The : In (Sept); Duet (Mar) October 28,1979 Sobs (Dec) Improvisations Vol 1 (Jun); Return to (Jan); Hymn of The Leprechaun Delphi II & III (Jun) Forever (Sept) Seventh Galaxy Concert (Nov); (Oct) To Forever Live: The Complete Concert The Mad Hatter Secret Agent Friends

Family Music In A Doll’s Family A Song for Me Old Songs New Bandstand (Sept) It’s Only A Movie House (Jul) Entertainment (Mar) (Jan); Anyway (Nov) Songs (Mar); (Sept) Fearless (Oct)

Tony Williams Emergency! (May) Turn It Over (Jan) Ego The Old Bum’s Believe it (Jul) Million Dollar Legs ; Lifetime Rush (Jun) Trio of Doom (Mar)

John McLaughlin/ Extrapolation (Jan); Devotion (Sept); My Goals Beyond Lost Trident Apocalypse (Apr) Visions of the (Jan); Shakti: Natural John McLaughlin Fuse One Mahavishnu In a Silent Way Where Fortune (Mar); Inner (recording - Aug) Sessions (Jun); Emerald Beyond Shakti with John Elements (Jul) with The One Truth Orchestra (Recorded Feb) Smiles (May); Mounting Flame On The Corner Birds of Fire (Jan); (Feb) McLaughlin Band: Electric Bitches Brew (recorded Aug, Between (recorded Jul); Dreams (Feb); Trio (Recorded Aug 69 - released Nov); Jack Nothingness & Shakti: A Handful of Doom (Mar) Jan 70) Johnson (recorded Eternity (Nov) Of Beauty (Aug) Feb - Apr 70, released Feb 71)

Jean-Luc Ponty King Kong (May) New Summit, Live at Montreux Ponty/Grappelli Upon The Wings of Aurora (Feb); , (Sept) (Mar) (Dec) Music (May) (Sept) (Aug) Live (Apr); A Taste (Nov) for Passion (Sept)

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Yes Yes (July) Time And A Word The Yes Album Close To The Edge Yessongs (May); (Dec) : Fish : Going For The One Tormato (Sept) Ten True Summers Drama (Aug); (July) (Feb); Fragile (Nov) (Sept) Tales from Out of Water (Nov); Olias of Sunhillow (Jul) Tour Yesshows (Nov) Topographic : (Jul) Oceans (Nov) Beginnings (Oct); The Steve Howe Album (Nov)

Bill Bruford Yes: Yes (July) Yes: Time And A Yes: The Yes Album Yes: Close To The : King Crimson: King Crimson: USA Feels Good to Me One of a Kind (Jun); Gradually Going Word (July) (Feb); Fragile (Nov) Edge (Sept) Lark’s Tongues In Starless And Bible (May) (Formation) (Jan) The Bruford Tapes Tornado Aspic (Mar) Black (Mar); Red (Jul) (Oct)

Genesis From Genesis to Tresspass (Oct) Foxtrot (Oct) Selling England By The Lamb Lies Recording Trick of Spot The Pigeon …And Then There : A Duke Revelation (demo (Nov) the Pound (Oct); Down On Broadway The Tail (Feb); Wind & (May); Seconds Were Three.. (Mar) Curious Feeling (Mar) Live (Nov); Lamb Tour Wurthering (Dec) Out (Oct)

King Crimson In The Court of the In The Wake Of Islands (Dec) Earth Bound (June) Lark’s Tongues In Starless And Bible USA (May); Fripp & Robert Fripp: Robert Fripp: God Crimson King (Oct) Poseidon (May) Aspic (Mar); Fripp & Black (Mar); Red BNO: Evening Star Exposure Save The Queen/ ENO: (No (Oct) (Dec) Under Heavy Pussyfooting) (Nov) Manners (Jan); The League of Gentlemen (Recording Jul — Dec)

Allan Holdsworth Igginbottom’s Nucleus: Tempest Soft Machine: Velvet Darkness Enigmatic Ocean Bruford: Feels Bruford: One of a Gordon Beck: The Wrench Belladonna Bundles; (Sept); (Sept); John Good to Me (Jan); Kind (Jun); Things You See Lifetime: Believe it Lifetime: Million Stevens: Touching U.K. (Mar) Gordon Beck: Dollar Legs; On Sunbird ’s : Gazause! / Expresso (Dec)

Dave Stewart Uriel/Arzachel: Egg: Egg Egg: The White Khan: Space Hatfield and The Hatfield and The National Health National Health: Bruford: One of a Arzachel Force Chanty (Jun) North: Hatfield and North: The Rotters’s (Formation) National Health Kind (Jun) The North (Feb) Club (Mar) (Feb); Of Queues and Cures (Dec); Bruford: Feels Good to Me (Jan)

Van der Graaf The Aerosol Gray The Least We Can Pawn Hearts (Oct) Godbluff (Oct) Still Life (Apr) The Quiet Zone/The Vital (Jul) Generator Machine (Sept) Do is Wave To Each Pleasure Dome Other (Feb); H to (Sept) HE, Who Am the Only One (Dec)

Gong Camembert Continental Circus Flying Teapot (May); You (Oct) Shamal (Feb); Pierre Moerlen’s Downwind (Feb); (Mar) Electrique (Oct) (Apr) Angel’s Egg (Dec) Pierre Moerlen’s Gong: Expresso II Gong: Gazause! / (Mar) (Nov) Expresso (Dec)

Gentle Giant (Nov) Aquiring The Taste Three Friends (Apr); The Power And The (July) Interview (April) Playing The Fool Giant For a Day! Civilian (Mar) (Jul) Octopus (Dec) (Sept) Glory (Sept) (Jan); The Missing (Sept) Piece (Aug)

Weather Report I Sing The Body Sweet Nighter Mysterious Traveler Tale Spinnin’ (May) Black Market (Mar) Heavy Weather Mr. Gone (Sept) 8:30 (Aug) Night Passage (May) Electric (May); Live (Apr) (Mar) (Mar) (Nov) In Tokyo (May)

Billy Cobham Spectrum (Oct) Crosswinds; Total Shabazz; A Funky Life and Times; Billy Magic Inner Conflicts; B.C. Flight Time Eclipse Side of Things Cobham/George Simplicity of Duke: Live on Tour Expression: Depth in Europe of Thought

Camel Camel (Feb) Mirage (Mar) The Snow Goose Moonmadness Rain Dances (Sept) Breathless (Sept); A I Can See Your (Apr) (Mar) Live Record (Apr) House From Here (Oct)

Jan Hammer & The First Seven Oh Yeah? (Apr) Jeff Beck and the Hammer: Black Hammer: Hammer David Earle : Like Days Jan Hammer Group Sheep Johnson with Jan Children Live (Mar, recorded Hammer: Hip summer ’76); Address Melodies

Jaco Pastorius Jaco Black Market (Mar); Joni Mitchell: Don Herbie Hancock: Joni Mitchell: Joni Mitchell: : Bright Juan’s Reckless Sunlight Mingus (Jun); Trio Shadows and Light Sized Life Daughter (Dec) of Doom (Mar) (Sept); Herbie Hancock: (Aug); Joni Mitchell: Mr. Hands (Sept) Hejira (Nov)

Jeff Beck Blow By Blow (Mar) Wired (May) Jeff Beck and the There & Back (Jun) Jan Hammer Group Live (Mar, recorded summer ’76)

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Steve Hackett Voyage of The Please Don’t Touch! Spectral Mornings Defector (Jun) Acolyte (Oct) (Apr) (May)

David Sancious Forest of Feelings Transformation (The Dance of the Age of True Stories Just As I Thought Speed of Love) Enlightenment

Steve Hillage (Apr) L (Sept) Motivation Radio Green (Apr) Rainbow Dome Aura (Sept) Musick (Apr) Open

Brand X Marscape (Nov) Morrocan Roll Masques (Sept) Product (Sept) Do They Hurt (Apr) Unorthadox (April); Livestock Behaviour (Jun) (Nov)

Dixie Dregs The Great Free Fall (May) What If (Mar) Night of the Living Spectacular Dregs (Mar) (Mar); Unsung Heroes (1981)

Kate Bush Zoo Demos Phoenix Recordings The Kick Inside Tour (Apr/May); On Never for Ever (Feb); Lionheart Stage (Aug) (Sept); The (Nov) Dreaming (Sept 1982)

Peter Gabriel /Car Peter Gabriel/ Peter Gabriel/Melt (Feb) Scratch (Jun) (May)

U.K. U.K. (Mar) Danger Money (Mar); Night After Night (Sept)

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