Week of March 26, 2000

Hummingbird

Personnel:

Clive Chaman - bass
Max Middleton - keyboards
Bob Tench - guitar, vocals
Robert Ahwai - guitar
Bernard Purdie - drums
Bernie Holland - guitar
Conrad Isadore - drums, vocals

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Linda Lewis - vocals
Madeline Bell - vocals
Liza Strike - vocals
Joanne Williams - vocals
Quitman Dennis - horns
Charles (Chuck) Findley - horns
Vanetta Fields - vocals
Lisa Freeman-Roberts - vocals
Jim Horn - sax, flute, clarinet
Paulette McWilliams - vocals
Pancho Morales - percussion
Airto Moreira - percussion
Stephanie Spruill - vocals
Julia Tillman-Waters - vocals
Maxine Willard-Waters - vocals

Albums:

Hummingbird (A&M AMLS 68292) 1975 
We Can't Go On Meeting Like This (A&M AMLH 68383) 1976 
Diamond Nights (A&M AMLHI 64661) 1977

45s:

For The Children's Sake/You Can Keep The Money (A&M AMS 7193) 1975 
Trouble Maker/Gypsy Skies (A&M AMS 7254) 1976 
Moodatcha/Anna's Song (A&M AMS 7325) 1977

This band played a sort of soul/funk/jazz type pop. The B-side of their second 45 was a superb keyboard piece that shows Max Middleton's credentials as a quality keyboard player. 

Max Middleton and Bob Tench had both previously been in Jeff Beck's backing band and Max Middleton was also in the brief incarnation of Beck, Bogert and Appice. Middleton and Ahwai later teamed up again for a 1979 album.

Taken from The Tapestry of Delights - The Comprehensive Guide to British Music of the Beat, R&B, Psychedelic and Progressive Eras 1963-1976, Vernon Joynson
ISBN 1 899855 04 1


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