Pentangle (band)

Pentangle was a folk-jazz band. It was founded in 1967 by Bert Jansch and John Renbourn in London, which had previously been celebrating small solo successes. They were joined by Jacqui McShee, Danny Thompson and Terry Cox. Jansch and McShee had met in 1964 in Collet 's Records Store, where Gill Cook, the wife of Jansch worked. While McShee was trained in classical singing, brought Thompson and Cox, who had previously played as a studio musician and with Alexis Korner, jazz influences to the band.

The musical basis of the quintet created in addition to the intelligent playing rhythm section Cox / Thompson, the two guitarists Jansch and Renbourn, whose delicate toothed acoustic Duospiel soon was groundbreaking as Folk Baroque in the British scene. The unusual combination of sitar, banjo and glockenspiel occasionally extended the acoustic sound spectrum. Drums and bass added added swinging jazz and blues elements, and the clear, ethereal vocals McShees rounded off the acoustic sound. Larger became famous for the formation through the collaboration with music producer Shel Talmy from May 1968 which produced the albums The Pentangle, Sweet Child ( double LP) and Basket of Light. From 1970 sat Renbourn sparingly an electric lead guitar. The group was able to quickly leave the club scene and play among other things, at London's Royal Albert Hall before a large audience. Parts of the concert can be found on the album Sweet Child. Above all, released on the Transatlantic label album Basket of Light ( 1969) was highly praised by critics. In the same year she played at the Newport Folk Festival. In the following years they toured several times by the United Kingdom. The quintet joined so idiosyncratic American country blues with self-penned and traditional folk songs and ballads. The main cast came off on the end of 1972. Jansch and McShee attempted a comeback with changing line-ups in the 1980s and 1990s. John Renbourn no longer took part in it and turned increasingly to traditional " Celtic " and medieval music. More recently he goes but every now and again with McShee on tour.

New formation of the band

1984 there was a reunion of Pentangle with Cox, Thompson, Jansch and McShee. John Renbourn did not participate and was replaced by Mike Piggott. Following the publication of Open the Door Thompson left the band. He was replaced by Nigel Portman - Smith, whose electric bass for the first time in the Round (1986 ) could be heard. In 1990 there was another line-up changes: Piggott and Cox left the band, but came Rod Clements of Lindisfarne and Gerry Conway of Jethro Tull. There the albums were released So Early in the Spring and Think of Tomorrow, which reaped quite good reviews. On the production appeared in 1993 One More Road played instead Clements now Peter Kirtley. In 1994 came another live album on the market. Without Bert Jansch McShee formed with keyboardist Spencer Cozens and drummer Gerry Conway for the CD About Thyme initially a trio, which was initially spiked with guest musicians such as Ralph McTell, Albert Lee, John Martyn, Mike Mainieri and Tony Roberts. Then, out of the trio with saxophonist Jerry Underwood and bassist Alan Thompson again a quintet that now appeared as Jacqui McShee 's Pentangle. This quintet released the CD Passe Avante as well as the live album At the Little Theatre.

In January 2007, the five founding members of the band of the Lifetime Achievement Award of BBC Radio 2 was awarded. On this occasion, entered Jansch, Renbourn, McShee, Thompson and Cox for the first time in 35 years on a single stage; few joint appearances followed.

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