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Bill Plummer & The Cosmic Brotherhood 1967

Genre: Jazz

HERSCH HAMEL sitar, tambura

MILT HOLLAND tabla

BILL PLUMMER sitar, string bass

RAY NEOPOLITAN sitar

JAN STEWARD sarode, tambura

RAY ANTHONY gtr

LYNN BLESSING vibes, bells

DENNIS BUDIMER gtr

MIKE CRADEN transceleste, duo vigong, American tree bells, boobams, surrogate vithara,

"which stand"(?)

BILL GOODWIN drms

CAROL KAYE fender bass

MIKE LANG piano, harpsichord

MAURICE MILLER drms

TOM SCOTT sax, flute, electronics

(ABC Impulse A-9164) 1967

Born in Boulder, Colorado in 1943, Bill Plummer moved to Los Angeles twenty years later to pursue a

jazz career. Already trained on piano, string bass, trumpet, marimba and vibraharp, he added the sitar

to his repertoire under the tutelage of Ravi Shankar. He played and toured with Herb and Lorraine

Geller, Nancy Wilson, the Paul Horn Group, Buddy DeFranco Quartet, and Pete Jolly Trio amongst

others. In 1966 he toured with Tony Bennett and Buddy Miles and formed an experimental group The

Jazz Corps, which included Lynn Blessing and Maurice Miller.

His love of jazz and interest in Indian music comes together on this 1967 album where jazz workouts

sit alongside Eastern ragas and blend with some contemporary pop/rock influences - exotic renditions

(ala Lord Sitar or Folkswingers) of Bacharch's The Look Of Love and Byrds' Lady Friend are

enchanting rather than cheesy.

The sitar extravaganza should appeal most to psych fans of an Eastern persuasion: the trippy Journey

To The East (with deadpan spoken vocals) has since appeared on Journey To The East (LP); the tenminute

Arc 294 is a heady cacophany where exotic instruments do battle on a field of freeform jazz.

The A&M 45 switched to more accessible pop-psych sounds: Sunshine World is catchy and quite

heavy sitar-pop; Yentra II is a stately sitar instrumental that starts off like Zodiac Cosmic Sounds then

builds gradually to a heavy crescendo - most excellent.

Lynn Blessing released a solo album in 1969.

Max Waller

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