New retrospective compilation ‘Auger Incorporated’ by Brian Auger
Soul Bank Music announces a back catalogue deal with legendary musician and jazz keyboard master Brian Auger – with the release of a career spanning compilation Auger Incorporated. Lauded and loved by artists as diverse as Mose Allison to The Brand New Heavies, his tracks have been sampled by Mos Def, Common, Air and Kid Loco, his original compositions covered by Sarah Vaughan, Richard ‘Groove’ Holmes and The Main Ingredient.
Auger Incorporated includes classics and rarities from Brian Auger’s ground-breaking, genre busting catalogue, and reaches back to his early 60’s debut as an award-winning jazz piano prodigy, his transformation into a swinging London Hammond Organ player via his groups’ The Steampacket and Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity whose blend of jazz, R&B and pop idioms saw him credited as one of the earliest protagonists of jazz fusion, that reputation was further enhanced via his flagship 70s group Brian Auger’s Oblivion Express. The 90s saw Brian hailed as the ‘godfather of acid jazz’, this Grammy Nominee is also the proud recipient of a US Congressional Certificate of Special Recognition for his ‘contribution to the American art form of Jazz’ and is championed by several generations of musicians and fans.
As a tantalising glimpse of just some of the incredible music to come – Auger Incorporated spans his illustrious career and includes 7 previously unreleased tracks from Brian’s personal archive, and includes collaborations with US blues legend Sonny Boy Williamson, a young Rod Stewart, Alex Ligertwood live concert tracks, radio and TV broadcasts by The Trinity & The Oblivion Express, and so much more.
‘Auger Incorporated’ out digitally on Feb 25th 2022 via Soul Bank Music
