The Band
Pigbag cut straight through preconceptions in 1982 by getting a big brassy jazz track into the charts in the UK.
"Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag" got to number three in the British charts at the beginning of May 1982.
The band were very popular in the 1980s and were part of the pop world's rediscovery of jazz. The Jazz resurgence began somewhere around 1978 (the year when Ry Cooder recorded an album named "Jazz" and Gerry Rafferty released "Baker Street" a pop hit largely because of the massively catchy saxophone sound). Even though it was mostly off of centre stage in the pop world, the resurgence continued on into and through the 1980s, competing with punk, goth, heavy metal, reggae and new romantic electropop. Mainstream pop artists like George Michael's group Wham! recorded tracks with some very jazzy instrumentation. Even gothic bands like The Cure and Siouxsie and the Banshees dabbled in 80s jazz. By the end of the decade it had given birth to a new form: Acid jazz.
Pigbag were the roughest, toughest expression of jazz within the 1980s jazz resurgence milieu. They made jazz with the power to blow rock away.
Band members
and later, when Chris Hamlyn, Mark Smith and Roger Freeman had left the band brought in:
In 1983 the band's sound was augmented by:
Discography
Singles
- "Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag" (1981)
- "Sunny Day" (1981)
- "Getting Up" (1981)
- "The Big Bean" (1982)
- "Hit The 'O' Deck" (1983)
Albums
- Dr Heckle & Mr Jive (1981)
- Lend An Ear (1983)
- Pigbag (1983)
- Favourite Things (1983)
- Discology (Best of Pigbag) (1987)
- BBC Sessions (1998)
- Seven Piggies (live-1982)
- Live At The Hippodrome (?)
To discover the 1980s jazz resurgence see also:
- Sade,
- Style Council,
- Sting,
- Branford Marsalis,
- Wynton Marsalis,
- Courtney Pine,
- Joe Jackson,
- Landscape's From the Tearooms of Mars To The Hellholes Of Uranus,
- Haircut 100,
- Ry Cooder,
- Shakatak,
- Herbie Hancock,
- Curiousity Killed the Cat,
- Frank Zappa,
- Spyro Gyra and
- Swing Out Sister.
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