SPACE CASE
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Auckland's early-to-mid 80s jazz-rock outfit Space Case which formed around drummer Frank Gibson, saxophonist Brian Smith and keyboard player Murray McNabb.
To that core were added some fine players: bassist Bruce Lynch on their 81 debut album Executive Decision which came in a cover designed to attract attention (and judging by the title might have been the idea of Ode headman Terence O'Neill-Joyce while the band were absent). For the follow-up Space Case Two of 83 Kim Paterson joined on trumpet, Americans Ron McClure (bass) and Claudio Roditi (trumpet/flugelhorn), and Andy Brown (bass) were guests.
After the earlier Dr Tree (Gibson, McNabb, Paterson, Lynch and others) had staked out exploratory and somewhat fiery jazz-rock as their territory for a couple of years in the mid 70s - and won most promising group and top group performance in the rock category at the music awards - the Space Case music pulled clearly towards
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