Click on image to treat yourself to this audio track at YouTube, Masked Moods (Long Version)
❚ MOST OF US have fond memories of Blue Rondo a la Turk, the seven-piece jazz/salsa band created by Chris Sullivan in 1981 and their first album Chewing the Fat, which I still consider the most original album of 1982. This yielded two chart singles, Me and Mr Sanchez and Klactoveesedstein. But after the band split and reformed as a trio named Blue Rondo who eventually released a second album in 1984, Bees Knees and Chicken Elbows, not many of us can recall many of its singles apart from Slipping Into Daylight.
Deep breath… Tonight Sullivan throws a party in Soho to celebrate this album’s re-issue by re-release by Cherry Red Records in a two-CD box, the second CD featuring Rondo’s previously unreleased tracks.
➢ Visit tonight’s party 9pm-1am at the Century club Soho,
63 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, W1
Rondo live, Jun 21, 1981: early try-out at a Chelmsford pub. Photography © by Shapersofthe80s
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