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Back Door were a late-blooming group of the British jazz-rock generation. They were a bass-drums-saxophone trio (Colin Hodgkinson, Tony Hicks, Ron Aspery), that was virtually unique in rock music. Hodgkinson, a virtuoso, had played with Alexis Korner and and with the New Church, who recorded Both sides (Metronome, 1970).
The original Back Door line-up recorded Back Door (Warner, 1972), the album that defined their style of brief, hectic instrumental jams at the border between jazz, funk, soul, blues and hard-rock (Slivadiv, Turning Point); 8th Street Nites (Warner, 1973), that emphasized Hodgkinson's virtuoso style; and Another Fine Mess (Warner, 1974). The latter, adding Felix Pappallardi and Dave MacRae on keyboards, Peter Thorup on vocals, Bernie Holland on guitar, was graced by the arrangements of Michael Gibbs, but was far less aggressive.
After Activate (Warner, 1976), recorded with a different drummer, the trio disbanded. Their hyper-kinetic fusion had been a few years ahead of the new wave. Hodgkinson completed a solo album that was never released.
Between 1979 and 1982, the bassist also played on the albums by Neil Schon and Jan Hammer. In the late 1980s he joined a late incarnation of the Spencer Davis Group, while he was recording albums with guitarist Frank Diez as the Electric Blues Duo.
Colin Hodgkinson's first solo album, The Bottom Line (Inakustik, 1998), came out 30 years after he had started playing.
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