The Insect Trust

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The Insect Trust was an American jazz-based[1] rock band that formed in New York, United States, in 1967.

Background

The members of the band were Nancy Jeffries on vocals,

Robert Palmer (1945โ€“1997) on clarinet and alto saxophone. Elvin Jones and Bernard Purdie both drummed with the group at times. Bill Folwell, who had played with Albert Ayler (and later an original member of The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo
), on bass and trumpet; as well as Warren Gardner on trumpet and clarinet, were part of the band by the time they recorded their second album.

According to The New York Times, the band took its name from William S. Burroughs's novel Naked Lunch, detailing a race of giant insects bent on world domination.[3] However, according to Bill Barth, the name came from the poetry journal Insect Trust Gazette, published by William Levy. Levy took the name from Burroughs, Warren Gardner then gave it to the band.

Musical style

Reviewing their 1970 album

modernism had given up the ghost."[5]

Legacy

Robert Palmer later became a well-respected and widely published rock critic and blues/jazz historian and served as the popular music editor of The New York Times in the 1980s. Nancy Jeffries became an executive at A&M, Virgin, and Elektra.

Death

  • Former member, Bill Folwell, died on October 2, 2019, at the age of 80.[6]

Discography

References

  1. ISBN 0062238795
    , p. 223.
  2. ^ "The Insect Trust- Tribute/Interview- Perfect Sound Forever". Furious.com. Retrieved December 23, 2019.
  3. ^ La Gorce, Tammy (December 18, 2005). "Throwing Rock Snobs a Bone". The New York Times. New York. p. 14.
  4. ISBN 089919026X
    . Retrieved February 27, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  5. ^ Hull, Tom (May 2005). "Recycled Goods (19)". A Consumer Guide to the Trailing Edge. Tom Hull. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
  6. ^ "Obituaries : Bill Folwell" (PDF). Nycjazzrecord.com. p. 12. Retrieved December 23, 2019.

Further reading

External links

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