The Supernova that Was Jazz-Rock Fusion

Drummer Jon Hiseman was born in 1944 to an artistic family in the southeastern London burg of Woolwich. In the Addey and Stanhope School (progressive, rare co-educational school) he met David Greenslade and Tony Reeves, with whom he formed a jazz trio.  In the early 1960s, Hiseman played with Neil Ardley, with whom he and Tony Reeves helped found the New Jazz Orchestra (where he met his life-long partner and wife, saxophonist/composer Barbara Thompson). In 1966, he replaced Ginger Baker in the Graham Bond Organisation, where he met Dick Heckstall-Smith (as well as one of Britain's first Mellotrons). He also played for a brief spell with Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames.  In 1968 he and Tony Reeves left to join  Heckstall-Smith in  John Mayall's Bluesbreakers where they participated in the April recording sessions that would result in the album Bare Wires  before This is where he and Heckstall-Smith met trumpet  Henry Lowther, who would c...