This 50-piece outfit, assembled late in 1970 and including Roy Babbington (bass), Ian Carr (trumpet), Elton Dean (saxophone, cello), Alan Skidmore (sax), Karl Jenkins (oboe), John Marshall (drums), vocalists Zoot Money (ex-Animals), Mike Patto, Julie Tippetts (the former Julie Driscoll), and Robert Wyatt (drums), was put together to perform Tippett's composition Septober Energy, an extended large-scale work. After a few live performances, a recording was arranged with British RCA, produced by Robert Fripp -- the resulting double-LP, Septober Energy, was issued in 1971. ... but it came to be regarded as a gargantuan disaster, failing to attract either favorable reviews or sales of any significance (it was reissued in 1974 in America and England, and failed to sell again, despite a serious advertising campaign by RCA, at least in New York, where the company took out co-op newspaper advertising with Korvettes and Sam Goody's, based on Robert Fripp's presence as producer). (AllMusic) Interesting. File under: Prog-Fusion Collaborations
In the music library: Septober Energy Links: Wikipedia Official web site (Keith Tippett) AllMusic Discogs