Jazz Sabbath

Jazz Sabbath (UK, 1968) were at the forefront of the new jazz movement. The eagerly awaited debut album, scheduled for release on Friday 13th February 1970, was destined never to be released. Until now. The album was cancelled when bandleader Milton Keanes was hospitalised with a massive heart attack which left him fighting for his life. The record company took the decision to shelve the album and cancel the scheduled release. When Milton was released from hospital in September 1970, he found out that a band from Birmingham, conveniently called ‘Black Sabbath’, had since released two albums containing metal versions of what he claims were his songs. Milton tried to contact his record label, Rusty Bedsprings Records, only to find out it didn’t exist anymore and the label owner was in jail. All recalled albums had been destroyed when the warehouse burned down in June 1970; which turned out to be a case of insurance fraud by the label owner. The album masters were said to be lost in the fire, but were actually misplaced and gathered dust in the basement vaults of the recording studio for many years, destined never to see the light of day. In late 2019 the tapes were found. These tapes have now been remixed and will finally be heard, proving that the heavy metal band worshipped by millions around the world are in fact nothing more than musical charlatans, thieving the music from a bedridden, hospitalised genius.