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1 The Band
Pigbag cut straight through preconceptions in 1982 by getting a big brassy jazz track into the charts in the UK.
"Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag" got to number three in the British charts at the beginning of May 1982.
The band were very popular in the 1980s and were part of the pop world's rediscovery of jazz. The Jazz resurgence began somewhere around 1978 (the year when Ry Cooder recorded an album named "Jazz" and Gerry Rafferty released "Baker Street" a pop hit largely because of the massively catchy saxophone sound). Even though it was mostly off of centre stage in the pop world, the resurgence continued on into and through the 1980s, competing with punk, goth, heavy metal, reggae and new romantic electropop. Mainstream pop artists like George MichaelGeorge Michael is also the name of a former radio DJ, and current sports presenter. See The George Michael Sports Machine George Michael (born June 25, 1963) is a British pop singer/songwriter born in Bushey, Hertfordshire. Wham! Born Georgios Kyriacos Pa's group Wham!Wham can mean one of two things: A pop duo formed by Andrew Ridgeley and George Michael in the 1980s. A 1960s British comic. recorded tracks with some very jazzy instrumentation. Even gothic bands like The CureThis article is about The Cure, the rock band. For alternative meanings, see cure. The Cure is a British rock band widely seen as one of the leading pioneers of the British alternative rock and post-punk scenes of the 1980s. The band is often considered a and Siouxsie and the Banshees dabbled in 80s jazz. By the end of the decade it had given birth to a new form: Acid jazzAcid jazz (sometimes groove jazz is a musical genre that combines jazz influences with elements of soul music, funk, disco and hip hop. It developed over the 1980s and 1990s and could be seen as taking the boundary crossing of jazz fusion onto new ground..
Pigbag were the roughest, toughest expression of jazz within the 1980s jazz resurgence milieu. They made jazz with the power to blow rockRock and roll also called rock is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony backing), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. As a cultural phenomenon, away.
1.1 Band members
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- James Johnstone - Alto SaxSax or SAX may refer to multiple things: Simple API for XML Saxophone. & guitar
- Chris Lee - Trumpet
- Ollie Moore - Tenor Sax
- Roger Freeman - Trombone
- Chip Carpenter - Percussion
- Chris Hamlyn - Clarinet & percussion
- Mark Smith - Bass
and later, when Chris Hamlyn, Mark Smith and Roger Freeman had left the band brought in:
In 1983 the band's sound was augmented by:
1.2 Discography
