Tim Weisberg, Part 2: 1973 Dreamspeaker, 1974's "4"

 

More along the same lines, slightly more uptempo compared to the folky mellow stuff on the first 2 LPs.

Scrabbly Y from the 1973 Dreamspeaker work, composed by the Weisberg + Blessing collab:

From the 4th album which came out in 1974, Californian memory Sand Castles, this time written by the guitarist Todd Robinson:

So basically, more of the same mellow stuff.  And more mellowness to come.

Tim Weisberg, Part 1: 1971 ST, 1972 Hurtwood Edge

Here's another truly unfairly unknown, forgotten artist.  Discography here.

Real Name: Timothy Jules Weisberg

American jazz flutist and composer, born Jan. 1,1943 in Hollywood, California.

First album came out in 1971 and has credits for compositions here (some pages are lacking those writing credits).  Note there are a couple of cover songs, not so unexpected.  The vibes player whose unbelievable name is Lynn Blessing cowrote or wrote many of the tracks with Tim.  The music which is instrumental of course is very light and approachable in general but, to my surprise, many, sometimes a majority of the songs are interesting beyond the usual expected simplicity of the easy listening arrangements, with Tim's flute gently playing above the typical accompaniment (rhythm section, piano, guitar, vibes).  Occasionally the production is a little more fleshed out (on some albums) but usually it's the straightforward backing you'd expect, without orchestral arrangements.  

Starting with this ST 1971 LP he went on to put out album after album roughly yearly until the end of the 80s and even thereafter, into the grunge decade of the 90s.  Of course, I didn't form an opinion of those later ones since I didn't have the courage to listen to them.

Anyways let's start from the beginning, from more than half a century ago, way way back in 1971.  

Sunshine in Her Hair is an original composition, by Lynn Blessing:

The credits for his second album from 1972 can be found on this particular page.

Is Hurtwood Edge referencing the place in the UK where Eric Clapton's house was? (see here).
Title track is by drummer Jim Gordon:

 

Another truly lovely composition called Summers Past (which is credited to Lynn Blessing and Tim):

Lots more to come.

Henry Debich again with Horyzonty 1978, released 2021 [FLAC limited time only]

This is a compilation of his music from the earlier records. It's possible I posted them all before but I'm not sure.  Information discogged here.

Certainly we know the ethereally lovely track called Amfora from before:

Paladin in 3 (1971 Paladin, 1972 Charge!, 2002 Jazzattack)

 

Recommended by a commenter, they put out 2 album in the early 70s of proto-fusion jazz-rock, proto-prog, then another one in the same style later in the early 2000s.  Discographed here, note the comment 'not to be confused with the US Paladin.'

Obviously the fantastical cover art from Roger Dean is easy to recognize.

Third World, from the first album:

Alex Harvey New Band's The Mafia Stole my Guitar, from 1979

The keyboardist was Tommy Eyre, who was one of the composers on the fabulous Riff Raff prog band posted just a couple of weeks ago back here.  Throughout the decade he played mostly with Alex Harvey the guitarist whose original namesake band in the early 70s was given  the modifier Sensational, discographed here, and they existed from 1973 to 1978, so presumably this album continues straight on after the earlier ones, without the modifier of course which by then was superfluous.  

I personally was never impressed with the Alex Harvey LPs though they are sometimes described as prog, really more glam rock or generic rock with that ridiculous British sense of humor or rather nonsense of humor.  Anyways in this 1979 outing Alex plays mostly electric guitar based fusion, with a minimum of attempts at singing.  The quality is fair to good, we are definitely not talking about masterpiece level like Big Jim Sullivan or Jeff Beck's Blow by Blow, or Ray Russell, though the basic sound and feel are similar.

The opener, Don's Delight:

Wait for me, Mama, a track where Alex brings out his semiridiculous vocals: