Morning Hymns

They were one of the most original British bands to emerge from the 70s progressive rock movement, but Jade Warrior’s experimental sounds never quite reached the heights of their peers. On the 50th anniversary of their third album, Last Autumn’s Dream – recently reissued via Esoteric along with Jade Warrior and Released – founder member Jon Field and latter-day bassist Dave Sturt recount the past, present and future of an underrated band that have inspired countless cult acts.

Mike Barnes

Even now, some people think of 70s progressive rock as a sort of playground for entitled posh boys. But Jon Field and Tony Duhig, the founder members of one of that decade’s most transcendental, idiosyncratic and largely unsung bands, Jade Warrior, met in 1962 while driving forklift trucks in a factory in Alperton, north-west London. Field played congas and other percussion, and Duhig played a guitar that his mother had bought him from a pawn shop, and they bonded over an interest in discovering music, alighting on all points between rock, blues, jazz, modernist composers such as Stravinsky, and Eastern and African music. The two friends went on to play in number of groups including the short-lived psychedelic combo July, with their friend Tom Newman on vocals, who released a…

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