John Almond

July 29, 1946 (age 63)

Enfield, Middlesex, England

He played in Zoot Money"s Big Roll Band and the Alan Price Secretariat. Among others he worked as a session musician with John Mayall"s Bluesbreakers, Chicken Shack and Fleetwood Mac. In 1969 he had founded Johnny Almond"s Music Machine and had recorded two solo records "Patent Pending" and "Hollywood Blues". On "Patent Pending" Almond is accompanied by Geoff Condon, Alan White, Jimmy Crawford, Steve Hammond, Roger Sutton and Johnny Wiggins. On "Hollywood Blues" he jams with Curtis Amy, Hadley Caliman, Joe Harris, Charles Kynard, Ray Neapolitan, Joe Pass, Earl Palmer und Vi Redd. In the same year he joined John Mayall"s (post-Bluesbreakers) with whom he toured and recorded The Turning Point and Empty Rooms. There he met Jon Mark with whom he decided to form. "s first two albums, (1971) and II (1972) were recorded for Bob Krasnow"s Blue Thumb label, and were noted for their embossed envelope-style album covers. Foreign the first album, "The Ghetto" received many plaudits and from the second "One Way Sunday" was a hit for them in the United States and received radio airplay on album-oriented rock stations in Boston, Massachusetts in 1970. The group then recorded two albums for Columbia Records, and the live album,, by which time the group"s members had grown to seven. "What Am I Living Foreign" from 73 gained the group the most United States. radio airplay they would get, but nevertheless they disbanded later that year. Notable musicians, who have recorded or toured with include drummer Dannie Richmond, drummer Billy Cobham, violinist Greg Bloch, keyboardist Tommy Eyre and bassist Roger Sutton. Eyre and Sutton later teamed in Riff Raff. Agricultural and Mechanical Records signed the duo in 1978 and released Other Peoples Rooms, but the record did not sell as well as earlier releases. disbanded again in the mid 1980s, after releasing two decent albums, Tuesday in New York" (1980) and a live offering The. In 1996 reunited again for a Civil Defense release, Night Music, which featured keyboardist Mike Nock and others Almond lived in the San Francisco Bay Area. He occasionally surprised local bar owners, arriving with his sax to jam, some of which was recorded, including a rendition of "Stormy Monday". He died on 18 November 2009 from cancer, aged 63 in Hayward, California, United States.

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Johnny Almond was born in Enfield, Middlesex, England.

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He played in Zoot Money"s Big Roll Band and the Alan Price Secretariat. Among others he worked as a session musician with John Mayall"s Bluesbreakers, Chicken Shack and Fleetwood Mac. In 1969 he had founded Johnny Almond"s Music Machine and had recorded two solo records "Patent Pending" and "Hollywood Blues".

On "Patent Pending" Almond is accompanied by Geoff Condon, Alan White, Jimmy Crawford, Steve Hammond, Roger Sutton and Johnny Wiggins.

On "Hollywood Blues" he jams with Curtis Amy, Hadley Caliman, Joe Harris, Charles Kynard, Ray Neapolitan, Joe Pass, Earl Palmer und Vi Redd. In the same year he joined John Mayall"s (post-Bluesbreakers) with whom he toured and recorded The Turning Point and Empty Rooms.

There he met Jon Mark with whom he decided to form. "s first two albums, (1971) and II (1972) were recorded for Bob Krasnow"s Blue Thumb label, and were noted for their embossed envelope-style album covers.

Foreign the first album, "The Ghetto" received many plaudits and from the second "One Way Sunday" was a hit for them in the United States and received radio airplay on album-oriented rock stations in Boston, Massachusetts in 1970.

The group then recorded two albums for Columbia Records, and the live album,, by which time the group"s members had grown to seven. "What Am I Living Foreign" from 73 gained the group the most United States. radio airplay they would get, but nevertheless they disbanded later that year. Notable musicians, who have recorded or toured with include drummer Dannie Richmond, drummer Billy Cobham, violinist Greg Bloch, keyboardist Tommy Eyre and bassist Roger Sutton.

Eyre and Sutton later teamed in Riff Raff.

Agricultural and Mechanical Records signed the duo in 1978 and released Other Peoples Rooms, but the record did not sell as well as earlier releases. disbanded again in the mid 1980s, after releasing two decent albums, Tuesday in New York" (1980) and a live offering The. In 1996 reunited again for a Civil Defense release, Night Music, which featured keyboardist Mike Nock and others

Almond lived in the San Francisco Bay Area. He occasionally surprised local bar owners, arriving with his sax to jam, some of which was recorded, including a rendition of "Stormy Monday".

He died on 18 November 2009 from cancer, aged 63 in Hayward, California, United States.

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