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Blue Rondo à la Turk | Emerson, Lake and Palmer
First performance, Isle of Wight | August 1970

It may be 1959-1963 out there, but in here, the influences reach far beyond.
Before ELP came together in early 1970, keyboardist, Keith Emerson, was in a band called, The Nice.
They recorded "Blue Rondo à la Turk" for their third record "The Nice Album", less than a year later, broke up.

"Emerson liked this early 4/4 re-interpretation of Dave Brubeck's nervy jazz classic so much
that he returned to it with ELP for the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970.

The Nice had originally fought for, and won, the right to include the entire eight-minute composition on this album –
something largely unheard prior to the progressive era. It paid off for Emerson.
He was able to stir in an introductory quote from Bach, before unleashing a series of his own fizzy interpretive runs."
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The band's first public performance. The Isle of Wight Festival, 1970.
Carl Palmer still has the drum face from his former band, Atomic Rooster.
It's a wild ride.



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