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Biography
Infobox musical artist | name = Brian Auger| image = Brian Auger and the Trinity 1970.JPG| alt =| caption = Brian Auger and the Trinity 1970| image_size =| background = solo_singer| birth_name =| alias =| birth_date = Birth date and age|1939|7|18|df=y| birth_place = London , England | instrument = Keyboard instrument|Keyboards | genre =| occupation =| years_active = 1960s–present| label =| associated_acts = Julie Driscoll , Brian Auger and the Trinity , CAB (band)|CAB , The Steampacket ,| website =URL| http://www.brianauger.com/| notable_instruments =Brian Auger (born 18 July 1939, London , England )Allmusic|class=artist|id=p25142 is a jazz and rock and roll|rock keyboardist , who has specialized in playing the Hammond organ .
A jazz pianist , bandleader , session musician and Hammond B3 player, Auger has played or toured with musician|artists such as Rod Stewart , Tony Williams (drummer)|Tony Williams , Jimi Hendrix , Sonny Boy Williamson II|Sonny Boy Williamson , Led Zeppelin , Eric Burdon and others. He has incorporated jazz, early United Kingdom|British pop music|pop , Rhythm and blues|R& B , soul music and rock music|rock , and he has been nominated for a Grammy .
Biography
In 1965 Auger formed the band (music)|group The Steampacket , along with Long John Baldry , Julie Driscoll , Vic Briggs and Rod Stewart. With Driscoll and the band, Brian Auger and the Trinity|Trinity , he went on to sound recording and reproduction|record several hit single s, notably a cover version of David Ackles ' "Road to Cairo" and Bob Dylan 's " This Wheel's on Fire (song)|This Wheel's on Fire ", which was featured on Dylan Covered . In 1969 Auger, Driscoll and Trinity appeared performing in the United States on the nationally telecast 33? Revolutions Per Monkee .
In 1970 he formed Brian Auger's Oblivion Express, shortly after abandoning the abortive "Wassenaar Arrangement" jazz-fusion commune in a small suburb of The Hague. The Oblivion Express served to cultivate several musician s, including future The Average White Band drummer s Robbie McIntosh (drummer)|Robbie McIntosh and Steve Ferrone , as well as guitarist Jim Mullen . Likewise, in 1971 he record producer|produced and appeared on Mogul Thrash 's only album . Two members of that band, Roger Ball and Malcolm Duncan, would also go on to form the Average White Band.
In 1989, Auger was musical director for the thirteen-part film retrospective series "Villa Fantastica", made for Germany|German Television|TV . A live recording of the series, Super Jam (album)|Super Jam (1990), features Auger on piano, Pete York on drum s, Dick Morrissey on tenor saxophone , Roy Williams (jazz)|Roy Williams on trombone , Harvey Weston on bass guitar , with singer s Zoot Money and Maria Muldaur .
Auger toured with blues rocker Eric Burdon in the early 1990s, and recorded the live album Access All Areas (1993 album)|Access All Areas with him in 1993. After several projects, including albums with family members, he reformed the Oblivion Express in the late 1990s, with a line-up that eventually featured both his son and daughter.
The Oblivion Express was revived with a 2005 recording and subsequent touring. The group featured Brian Auger, his son Karma Auger on drums, his daughter Savannah Auger on vocals, and Derek Frank on bass.
In 2012, Auger released one of the few solo albums of his career, "Language of the Heart", produced by Tea. It features Jeff "Skunk" Baxter and Julian Coryell on guitars.
Discography
1965 - ''Don't Send Me No Flowers - Sonny Boy Williamson II|Sonny Boy Williamson
1965 - Attention!
1965-1969 - The Mod Years (Complete singles, A-side and B-side|B-sides , and rare tracks)
1967 - Open (Trinity's first album)
1968 - Definitely What
1969 - Streetnoise ( double album )
1969/1970 - Befour (Last Brian Auger Trinity album)
2004 - Auger Rhythms: Brian Augers Musical History (The Trinity, Julie Driscoll, Oblivion Express)
2005 - Looking In the Eye of the World (Oblivion Express)
2005 - Live at the Baked Potato (Oblivion Express) Double Compact disc|CD
2012 - Language of the Heart (Solo album)
Filmography
1969 - 33? Revolutions Per Monkee
2005 - Brian Auger: Insights of the Keyboard Master ( DVD ) http://www.brianaugervideo.com brianaugervideo.com
2005 - Live at the Baked Potato (Oblivion Express) DVD
See also
CAB (band)|CAB
List of Hammond organ players
List of jazz fusion musicians
List of jazz organists
List of performers on Top of the Pops
References
Reflist
Further reading
Encyclopedia of Pop, Rock and Soul by Irwin Stambler
Jazz-Rock Fusion: The People, the Music by Julie Coryell & Laura Friedman
The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll by Jon Pareles & Patricia Romanowski Bashe
Encyclopedia of Rock by Phil Hardy & Dave Laing
Urban Spacemen and Wayfaring Strangers: Overlooked Innovators and Eccentric Visionaries of 60s Rock by Richie Unterberger
Jimi Hendrix : The Man, the Magic, the Truth by Sharon Lawrence
Soul Picnic: The Music and Passion of Laura Nyro by Michele Kort
The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music by Colin Larkin
The Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Seventies by Leonard Feather & Ira Gitler
The New Musical Express Book of Rock , 1975, Star Books
External links
http://www.brianauger.com/ Official Site - Brian Auger's Oblivion Express
http://www.brianaugervideo.com/ Brian Auger Instructional Video/DVD - Insights of the Keyboard Master - Web Site
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/release/x3cz/ BBC - Classic Pop/Rock Review - Brian AugerJulie Driscoll & The Trinity, Open, Definitely What!, Streetnoise
http://www.soul-patrol.com/jazz/augar.htm Soul Patrol Jazz
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/musician.php? id=3523 Brian Auger at All About Jazz
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