Nucleus

Nucleus were a pioneering jazz-rock band from Britain who continued in different forms from 1969 to 1989. In 1970 they won first prize at the Montreux Jazz Festival, released the album Elastic Rock, and performed both at the Newport Jazz Festival and the Village Gate jazz club. They were led by Ian Carr, who had been in the Rendell–Carr Quintet during the mid and late 1960s, and was a respected figure in British jazz for more than forty years. Their jazz-based music evolved from an early sound incorporating elements of progressive and psychedelic rock toward combination with a funkier sound in the mid and late 1970s.

Links to Peel
Peel in an interview with Wire magazine, published in January 1995, described Ian Carr as a serious and frightning man:

"'Ian Carr was an incredible serious man and he used to come in and lecture Walters and myself on the inadequacies of almost every other musician apart from himself. And we were so frightened of him that when he said 'How about a session for Nucleus?', we didn't like to say no.'"

Nucleus did four sessions for Peel's show and some members of the group later joined with Soft Machine, whose singer Robert Wyatt was a close friend of Peel.

Sessions
1. Recorded: 1970-03-02. Broadcast: 07 March 1970. Repeated: 27 June 1970 2. Recorded: 1971-03-15. Broadcast: 27 March 1971 3. Recorded: 1971-11-02. Broadcast: 17 November 1971 4. Recorded: 1972-10-10. Broadcast: 07 November 1972
 * Elastic Rock / 1916 / Orpheus / Persephone's Jive / Twisted Track
 * Snakeskin Dream / Bearded Lady / Morning Call
 * Feel It First / Belladonna / Tall Grass / Pieces Of Me
 * Belladonna / Suspension / Mayday / Summer Rain

Other Shows Played

 * 1973
 * 18 December 1973: 'Caliban (LP-Roots)' (Vertigo)