The History of Reform IV

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The concentrated around Miles Davis' early fusion period and performed numbers such as: Rated X, Billy Preston, Moja, Wili, It's About That Time, Great Expectations and many more.
About this time Gustav Ejstes of Dungen moved up to Stockholm. Jesper and Anders had played with him in Skövde and he called them Bröderna Sjuk ("The Sick Brothers" with reference to the Swedish folkloric group Bröderna Djup "The Deep Brothers"). Jesper had already played with Dungen a couple of times and now he joined them. Through Dungen Jesper met Alexander Wiig and Reine Fiske. Isak Andersson, a great drummer, had recorded pop songs with Jesper earlier and he also joined Dungen for a concert at Skeppsholmen in 1999.
The 3rd of November 2000 a new line-up of Reform met for the first time in the Semi Studio at the Royal University College of Music and recorded three numbers.

Jesper Bergman: Electric bass
Johan Glasson: Electric guitar
Anders Bergman: Percussion
Mattias Lennestig: Rhodes
Reine Fiske: Electric guitar
Alexander Wiig: Percussion, Sitar
Isak Andersson: Drums

The first was called Morning and was written by Jesper, the second one was based on a groove by Ginger Baker and with a base line written by Jesper, and the third one was Great Expectations written by Miles Davis. Everyone was very satisfied with the recording and Alexander immediately designed a beautifully strange cover for the cd, which was never released. This line-up went into the studio a couple of times more and it resulted in the cd Easy. Included on the record is only one of the three numbers from the first session, Baker. It is fast and has a great drive. On the last two numbers on that album Pedro Martinez takes Isak's place at the drums. But Reform stuck to its path: To deliver Psychedelic JazzRock to the people!

To be continued...

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