Graham John Clifton Bond was an English musician, considered a founding father of the English rhythm and blues boom of the 1960s.
Bond was an innovator, described as an important, under-appreciated figure of early British R&B, along with Cyril Davies and Alexis Korner. Jack Bruce, John McLaughlin and Ginger Baker first achieved prominence in his group, the Graham Bond Organisation. Bond was voted Britain's New Jazz Star in 1961. He was an early user of the Hammond organ/Leslie speaker combinatio...
