Brian Auger
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Biography
[Edit]Brian Auger was raised in London, where he took up the keyboards as a child and began to hear jazz by way of the American Armed Forces Network and an older brother's record collection. By his teens, he was playing piano in clubs, and by 1962 he had formed the Brian Auger Trio with bass player Rick Laird and drummer Phil Knorra. In 1964, he won first place in the categories of "New Star" and "Jazz Piano" in a reader's poll in the Melody Maker music paper, but the same year he abandoned jazz for a more R&B-oriented approach and expanded his group to include John McLaughlin (guitar) and Glen Hughes (baritone saxophone) as the Brian Auger Trinity. This group split up at the end of 1964, and Auger moved over to Hammond B-3 organ, teaming with bass player Rick Brown and drummer Mickey Waller. After a few singles, he recorded his first LP on a session organized to spotlight blues singer Sonny Boy Williamson that featured his group, saxophonists Joe Harriott and Alan Skidmore, and guitarist Jimmy Page; it was Don't Send Me No Flowers, released in 1968.
By mid-1965, Auger's band had grown to include guitarist Vic Briggs and vocalists Long John Baldry, Rod Stewart, and Julie Driscoll, and was renamed Steampacket. More a loosely organized musical revue than a group, Steampacket lasted a year before Stewart and Baldry left and the band split. Auger retained Driscoll and brought in bass player Dave Ambrose and drummer Clive Thacker to form a unit that was billed as Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and the Trinity. Their first album, Open, was released in 1967 on Marmalade Records (owned by Auger's manager, Giorgio Gomelsky), but they didn't attract attention on record until the release of their single, "This Wheel's on Fire," (music and lyrics by Bob Dylan and Rick Danko) in the spring of 1968, which preceded the appearance of the song on the Band's Music from Big Pink album. The disc hit the top five in the U.K., after which Open belatedly reached the British charts. Auger and the Trinity recorded the instrumental album Definitely What! (1968) without Driscoll, then brought her back for the double-LP, Streetnoise (1968), which reached the U.S. charts on Atco Records shortly after a singles compilation, Jools & Brian, gave them their American debut on Capitol in 1969. Driscoll quit during a U.S. tour, but the Trinity stayed together long enough to record Befour (1970), which charted in the U.S. on RCA Records, before disbanding in July 1970.
Auger put together a new band to play less commercial jazz-rock and facetiously called it the Oblivion Express, since he didn't think it would last; instead, it became his perennial band name. The initial unit was a quartet filled out by guitarist Jim Mullen, bass player Barry Dean, and drummer Robbie McIntosh. Their initial LP, Brian Auger's Oblivion Express, was released in 1971, followed later the same year by A Better Land, but their first U.S. chart LP was Second Wind in June 1972, the album that marked the debut of singer Alex Ligertwood with the band. Personnel changes occurred frequently, but the Oblivion Express continued to figure in the U.S. charts consistently over the next several years with Closer to It! (August 1973), Straight Ahead (March 1974), Live Oblivion, Vol. 1 (December 1974), Reinforcements (October 1975), and Live Oblivion, Vol. 2 (March 1976). Meanwhile, Auger had moved to the U.S. in 1975, eventually settling in the San Francisco Bay area. In the face of declining sales, he switched to Warner Bros. Records for Happiness Heartaches, which charted in February 1977. Encore, released in April 1978, was a live reunion with Julie Tippetts (née Driscoll) that marked the end of Auger's association with major record labels, after which he dissolved the Oblivion Express and recorded less often. In 1990, he teamed up with former Animals singer Eric Burdon, and the two toured together during the next four years, releasing Access All Areas together in 1993. In 1995, Auger put together a new Oblivion Express. As of 2000, the lineup consisted of his daughter, Savannah, on vocals, Chris Clermont on guitar, Dan Lutz on bass, and his son Karma on drums. This group issued the album Voices of Other Times on Miramar Records one week before Auger's 61st birthday.
Title: Streetnoise
Artist: Brian Auger, The Trinity, Julie Driscoll
Genre: Folk Rock, Jazz Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Title: Back to the Beginning: The Brian Auger Anthology
Artist: Brian Auger
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Jazz, Rock
Title: Untold Tales of the Brian Auger Trinity
Artist: Brian Auger
Genre: Rock, Progressive Rock, Punk Rock
Title: Befour
Artist: Brian Auger, The Trinity, Clive Thacker, David Ambrose, Gary Winston Boyle
Genre: Soul Jazz, Jazz Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Title: Jools & Brian
Artist: Brian Auger, The Trinity, Julie Driscoll
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, World Music, Pop
Title: Open
Artist: Brian Auger, The Trinity, Julie Driscoll
Genre: Blues Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Pop Rock
Title: How Long (feat. Christopher Cross) [Radio Version] - Single
Artist: Jeff Golub, Brian Auger
Genre: Jazz, Crossover Jazz, Pop
Title: Cab 4
Artist: Dennis Chambers, Tony Macalpine, Brian Auger, Chambers, Brunel, MacAlpine, Bunny Brunel
Title: Back to the Beginning ...Again: The Brian Auger Anthology, Vol. 2
Artist: Brian Auger
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Jazz, Rock, Funk
Title: Wheel's On Fire: The Lost Broadcasts
Artist: Brian Auger, The Trinity, Julie Driscoll
Genre: Psychedelic Rock
Title: Open 1967
Artist: Brian Auger, The Trinity, Julie Driscoll
Genre: Rock, Jazz Rock, Progressive Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Title: Best Of Julie Driscoll & Brian Auger
Artist: Brian Auger, Julie Driscoll
Genre: Jazz Rock, Progressive Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Progressive Metal
Collections
Title: Light My Fire - A Classic Rock Salute to the Doors
Genre: Rock
Title: Red Hot Summer Blues
Genre: Rock, Blues Rock
Title: Blues After Hours
Genre: Country
Title: Basin' Street Club, Vol. 2
Genre: Electronica, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Sample My Funky Groove, Vol. 1
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Ultra Rare 4: Psychedelic '60s
Genre: Rock
Title: Steinway to Heaven
Genre: Rock
Title: Jazz Lounge Classics, Vol. 1
Genre: Jazz
Title: Reference Highlights, Vol. 1
Genre: Jazz, World Music
Title: Legends of Blues
Genre: Rock, Blues Rock
Title: Reference Highlights, Vol. 2
Genre: Jazz, World Music
Title: I Love Disco Diamonds Collection Vol. 29
Genre: Disco, Italo Disco, Pop
Title: Arriva La Bomba
Title: Psychedelic Jazz
Title: Psychedelic Jazz - Smoking Tunes 16
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Ultimate Collection: 60s Classics (CD1)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Rock, Pop, Pop Rock
Title: Discotheque For Dancing
Title: Blues Women Anthology Vol. 8 (CD2)
Genre: Blues
Title: Ian Paices Sunflower Superjam
Genre: Tech House, Hip Hop/R&B, Rock
Title: The Craig Charles Funk And Soul Club Vol. 4
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Funk
Title: Summer Of Love Ultimate Collection 5CD (CD3)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Rock, World Music, Country, Pop, Folk
Title: Take What You Need: UK Covers Of Bob Dylan Songs 69
Genre: Folk Rock
Title: A Life In Yes: The Chris Squire Tribute
Genre: Rock, Progressive Rock
Title: Driven By The 60s (CD1)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Rock, Punk Rock, Pop, Funk
Title: Driven By The 60s (Box Set) (CD1)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Rock & Roll, Rockabilly, Disco, Acoustic
Title: Dreamboats & Petticoats - Silver Linings (CD4)
Genre: Pop
Title: The Hits: The 60S (CD1)
Genre: Soul, Blues, Rock, Garage Rock, Classical, Easy Listening
Title: Hammond Organ Heroes (CD1)
Genre: Blues, Jazz, Instrumental
Title: Hammond Organ Heroes (CD2)
Genre: Blues, Jazz, Instrumental
Title: Hammond Organ In ROCK (CD1)
Genre: Rock, Punk, Punk Rock, Alternative
Title: Italo Disco - The Lost Legends Vol. 39
Genre: Italo Disco
Title: Retro Halloween 2021
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Rap, Jazz, Rock, Disco, Pop, Funk, Acoustic, Classical
Title: 60s Pop Throwback
Genre: Pop
Title: Hammond Organ - The Sweet Life 2023 (CD1)
Genre: Jazz, Instrumental, Instrumental
Title: Hammond Organ - The Sweet Life 2023 (CD2)
Genre: Jazz, Instrumental, Instrumental
Featuring albums
Title: Ian Paice's Sunflower Superjam (Live At the Royal Albert Hall 2012)
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Rock
Title: The Craig Charles Funk & Soul Club, Vol. 4
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Funk
Title: Flower Power (CD3)
Artist: Fetenhits
Genre: Soul, Blues, Rock, Rock & Roll, World Music, Country, Funk, Folk, Fusion
Title: My Essential Drum N Voice Collection
Artist: Billy Cobham
Genre: Jazz, Funk, Smooth Jazz, Fusion
Title: Jazz A Casa Di Ida Rubinstein (Remaster)
Artist: Giuni Russo
Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Italo Disco