Pentangle

Pentangle grew out of a series of weekly sessions held at the Horseshoe Inn, Tottenham Court Road in 1967, featuring guitarists Bert Jansch and John Renbourn accompanied by bassist Danny Thompson, drummer Terry Cox and vocalist Jacqui McShee. They expanded the guitar explorations of Jansch and Renbourn into a "folk-jazz" style, winning critical acclaim and an appreciative audience. With the aid of their aggressive manager, Jo Lustig, they made a number of successful LPs, recorded many sessions for radio and TV, performed in large concert halls and toured internationally until splitting in 1973.

With the rise of folk-rock and heavily electric jazz-fusion in the 1970s, Pentangle's acoustically based style went out of fashion, although Jansch and Renbourn continued to issue records under their own names and collaborate with other musicians. Yet gradually their work began to be rediscovered, particularly in the 1990s with the remarkable posthumous popularity of Nick Drake, another artist who had combined folk and jazz influences (and had used Pentangle's Danny Thompson as a backing musician on some of his recordings). Interest in Drake's music led to renewed appreciation of his contemporaries Donovan and Pentangle, whose styles were seen as a welcome change from the mainstream of folk-rock, which now seemed tired and clichéd. Many reissues of Pentangle's material appeared, and the band re-formed in 2008 and toured the UK. A further tour in 2011 was cut short due to Jansch's serious illness; he died in October of that year.
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